CCJ Newsletter 3rd October 2025

Cheam Common Junior Academy

Weekly Newsletter

Friday 3rd October 2025

Cheam Common Junior Academy: Kingsmead Avenue, Worcester Park, KT4 8UT

Email: ccjoffice@leoacademytrust.co.uk http://www.cheamcommon.org.uk/

Religious celebrations

At Cheam Common, we are committed to celebrating the heritage and cultures of all of children.

As we have done for the past previous three years, children are invited to wear traditional clothing to school on the following dates, if they are celebrating:

Diwali - Monday 20th October

Spring Term: Lunar New Year, Eid

If you feel we have missed a religious date for children to wear traditional clothing, please let us know!

Breakfast and After School Club: How to change, book or update

Please email ccjextendedservices@leoacademytrust.co.uk or phone 07739360621.

Family Support Worker - referral form

If you would like to explore ways that our Family Support Worker could support your family, please complete this Google Form.

School Updates

Uniform

We have been so impressed by how smart our children have looked this week.

Please ensure that children's clothes are named - especially jumpers, coats and cardigans. Our lost property is full of these every year, and we would love for that not to be the case!

Snacks

Please remember that any breaktime snacks for children should be healthy. Fruit and vegetables are encouraged, along with cereal or fruit bars. Crisps and chocolate are not permitted and children will be asked to return these to their lunchboxes.

PE lessons

School Attendance in Sutton

Free School Meals - Sutton.pdf

Wellbeing Woofers

Our Book Wishlist

Children across the school wrote a wishlist of the different books that they would like to see in their library and their classrooms.

We have collated this wishes and have put together an Amazon Wish List, which can be found here. If parents and families wish, there are over a hundred books that children are desperate to read on the list and these can be ordered as a present to our school. Alternatively, if you notice a book on the list that your children no longer read, we are always grateful for any donations!

It has also been suggested by our children that, on a birthday, rather than bringing sweets in for their classmates, children choose a book on the list that they would like to donate to their class. This also falls in line with our commitment to promoting healthy lifestyles. On the order, there is an option to leave a message - you can specify which class the book is for. As ever, we recognise that money can be tight so please note that this is entirely optional. Any support is always appreciated.

School lunches

You can see Autumn Term options here.

Weekly School and Sporting News Stories

Check out what our children have been up to this week at Cheam Common Junior Academy!

Birthday celebrations

Fantastic homework

Polite reminder...

As you know, we are a healthy school and therefore ask if your child would like to celebrate their birthday, they donate a book to a library instead of bringing treats. This also ensures there are no concerns over allergies.

We have loved receiving some fantastic homework this term!

Remember: Each year group's homework matrix can be found in the section below. Completing these tasks is optional but can really help to enrich the children's learning and understanding of these topics.

Curriculum Newsletters and Home Learning

Autumn 1 Curriculum Newsletter and Homework Matrixes

Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6

School Achievements

⭐️ Star of the Week Awards ⭐️

This week's LEO Explorer Value is 'Creative'.

3AM - Scarlett and Luka

3JH - Freddie and Bhavishya

3RM - Bella and Jacob

3VH - Ronnie and Aashvi

4F - Haris and Florence

4I - Laurie and Jonathon

4J - Ziyi and Poppy G

4S - Aretha and Jonathon

5D - Khloe and Hector

5G - Celine and Jeevan

5H - Julia and Sam

5W - Sana and Jude

6C - Rewa and Herkus

6CB - Jia-le and Mason

6F - Isobel and Gryff

6SB - Louis and Haiqa

🎫Golden Ticket Winner - Jeevan (5G) 🎫

📖 Reading Raffle Winners - Briena (3VH) and Molly (4I) 📖

Out of school achievements

If you would like to share your child's achievements outside of school with us, we'd love to hear them! Please complete this short form to tell us all about it.

Laurie (Year 4)

Laurie met his hero, conservationist Steve Backshall, at a book launch event. Steve and Laurie chatted about various animals and Laurie left with lots of great ideas to help protect his local environment.

Chloe and Libby (Year 6)

Chloe and Libby achieved 2nd place in their very first Street Dancing competition, in the Age 10 Beginner Duos category.

We are so impressed!

Dominic (Year 3)

Dominic won second place in a West London chess tournament! And with that, he’s qualified to play in the London Junior Chess Championship final at the University of Westminster!

Important information

Reporting absences

There is no longer an option to report a child’s absence via telephone. We ask that you use the google forms below to report absence. They are also available to complete on our website using the parent tab.

We do not authorise holidays during term time. If your child is going to be off school due to an exceptional circumstance, then please complete this form:

Request for Exceptional Absence form in advance for future appointments and exception absence.

Cheam Common Juniors' Absence Form for sickness and same day medical appointments.

Our neighbours

As well as being respectful to our neighbours, please can you ensure you adhere to the parking rules within Sainsbury's Local and only park there if you are a customer.

Please ensure you do not obstruct any gates or double park during drop off or collection times.

Thank you for your support.

Moving address

If you have moved address, it is imperative that you inform the school office as soon as you have moved. It is a requirement that the school has up to date details particularly in case of an emergency.

Please email the school office ccjoffice@leoacademytrust.co.uk if your details need updating. Alternatively, you can update them using the Arbor App.

Autumn Term Dates

Please find below all the key dates and times for the Autumj Term.

PTA events are shown in this colour. Please see below for more details.

New dates

2025 - 2026 Term dates

Monday 6th October: Y6 Swimming Booster Sessions 3/4

Monday 6th October: Last day for harvest donations

Tuesday 7th October: School Tour 10:15am (for new starters in 2026)

Friday 10th October: SEND Coffee Morning

Monday 13th October: Y6 Swimming Booster Sessions 4/4

Monday 13th October: Year 6 Bikeability Week 1 (Groups 1-4)

Wednesday 15th October: School Tour 10:15am (for new starters in 2026)

Monday 20th October: Y4 Swimming Booster Session 1

Monday 20th October: Year 6 Bikeability Week 2 (Groups 6-8)

Monday 20th October: Diwali - children are invited to dress in traditional clothing to celebrate Diwali on this date

Monday 20th October: Year 6 Junior Citizenship Scheme Trip (2 classes)

More information coming soon

Tuesday 21st October: Year 6 Junior Citizenship Scheme Trip (2 classes)

More information coming soon

Thursday 23rd October: School Tour 1:45pm (for new starters in 2026)

Friday 24th October: MUFTI Day

Monday 27th - Friday 31st October: Half term

Monday 13th November: Year 6 Bikeability Week 3 (Groups 9-12)

Tuesday 9th December: Year 3 Stone Age Day and Workshop

Friends of Cheam Common - Updates

The Friends of Cheam Common now has a Facebook group, where you can follow any updates on upcoming events or how you can get involved.

Secondhand Uniform

A gentle reminder, please only donate the items listed below.

Logo jumper

Logo cardigan

Logo fleece

Logo waterproof jacket

Logo PE tshirt

Logo polo shirts

Junior PE black quarter zip top

Ties

Red PE shorts

Please do not donate, shirts, or grey uniform items; we have very limited storage space and we can’t store those items currently. We will let you know when we are able to accept these items again.

Thank you so much for supporting the second hand uniform sale on Friday. We are delighted that good quality school uniform can be reused and help families.

Going forward, we need to reduce the uniform service that we offer unfortunately. We will no longer be taking uniform email requests for the foreseeable future. The uniform service has expanded immensely with donations and requests over the past year. Whilst it has been absolutely wonderful to offer this service to the school community; sadly, we don't have the volunteers to sustain the huge amount of time this service requires.

However, we are very happy to still offer a termly uniform sale, where we'll have plenty of uniform on offer to stock up for the term ahead.

Please leave donations at either the Infants’ or Junior’s office.

We hope you understand the decision we've had to take, and we thank you, as always, for your continued support.

SEND & Inclusion Updates

Click the image above for further information!

Keeping Safe Online

DIGI Safe - Keeping Children Safe Online

LGFL have launched a wonderfully informative and practical website full of resources to help keep children safe online. With videos, informative guides and top tips, there is lots to explore to help keep your child safe whilst online. To visit, click here.

Family Support