CCJ Newsletter 7th November 2025

Cheam Common Junior Academy

Weekly Newsletter

Friday 7th November 2025

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

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

🧦 Odd Socks Day 🧦

Monday 10th November

On Monday 10th November 2025, we will be celebrating and taking part in Odd Socks Day! We are looking forward to seeing all of your colourful socks next week as 'Odd Socks Day' marks the start of Anti-Bullying Week.

Odd Socks Day is designed to be fun, however the main focus is to raise awareness of Anti Bullying Week and it is an opportunity to encourage people and children to express themselves whilst expressing their individuality and what makes us all unique!

All you have to do to take part is wear odd socks to school on Monday, November 10th! Please note that children must still wear their full school uniform; only the socks should be mismatched.

🖌 Brown paper request 🖌

As part of Year 3’s upcoming art unit, we will be using brown packing paper to create cave paintings on. If you happen to receive any brown paper packaging in your Amazon parcels (or other deliveries) over the next couple of weeks, we would be very grateful if you could send it in with your child to donate to Year 3.

Your contributions will help us make the most of our art lessons while reusing materials in an environmentally friendly way.

🧸 Children in Need 🧸

Friday 14th November

On Friday 14th November, we are celebrating Children in Need! Your child can wear MUFTI if they’d like and are encouraged to wear clothes that are yellow, colourful, spotty or Pudsey-themed. If you would like to donate then one option is to support our Just Giving Page to support this charity. We would encourage a donation of £1 per child, however this is not required.

This year, the official theme for Children in Need is "Challenge Yourself to 25." We're encouraging all participating children to take on a sponsored challenge and complete it 25 times—whether that's walking 25km over the course of the week, reading 25 books, or even baking 25 tasty cupcakes! To celebrate their efforts, we would love to include your child's challenge and achievement in our school newsletter or to their class, so please feel free to send in photographs/ videos! (Please note, taking part in the challenge or sharing the achievement for the newsletter is completely optional).

🦙 Alpaca Visit 🦙

Thursday 20th November

We are delighted to announce that we will be visited by alpacas later this month. Mortimer Alpacas will be bringing two alpacas to school for the morning, for our children to meet, stroke and take photos with. We hope that this will be a fun learning break for children!

A massive thank you goes to the Friends of Cheam Common, who are funding this opportunity for our children.

EYFS and Year 1 will be visited on Friday 21st November, with KS2 being visited on Thursday 20th November.

🏥 Christmas Pyjama Campaign 🏥

As we quickly approach the festive season, we have decided to run our pyjama fundraiser again, similarly to last year . Our chosen charity for the festive season is ‘Children’s Hospital Pyjamas’. This amazing charity donates brand new pairs of pyjamas to poorly children in hospital over the Christmas period. The charity’s vision is to ‘spread love through comfort during the Christmas season’ to children who unfortunately have to spend their Christmas holidays in hospital. In line with the LEO outcomes, we aim to encourage healthy and active learners who care about our world and we feel this would be a great way for our students to give back to our local community.

If you would like to help us support this charity, we are asking for either donations of brand new pyjamas or money that will go towards buying new pyjamas.

Due to the location of our school, we have decided that we will be donating our pyjamas to our local hospitals. We are donating to:

- St George’s Hospital (Tooting)

- Kingston Hospital (Kingston Upon Thames)

To confirm, we are only able to accept BRAND NEW pyjamas due to the vulnerability of the children who will be receiving the pyjamas. Unfortunately second hand pyjamas are not accepted. The pyjamas can be any size ranging from baby sizes - 10 years old. Alternatively, monetary donations are also welcomed and will be used to purchase new pyjamas to go towards our donations.

The deadline for all donations is Friday 5th December. Please hand pyjamas into the school office or to your child's classroom.

To raise more money for these causes, we invite all children to wear pyjamas or onesies to school on Friday 21st November.

Remembrance Day poppies

Children can bring in their money and buy poppies when they are brought around to be sold. Some teachers may collect in money and keep this in their desks for safekeeping.

After half-term we will be selling poppies and some other ‘poppy related’ products (rulers, rubbers, sharpeners, bracelets, wristbands and pencils), as shown below, to raise money for the British Legion. These will be on sale from Tuesday 4th November 2025 until Tuesday 11th November 2025.

The poppies will also be on sale at break time and lunch time throughout the week and this will be managed by our School Council members. Although it is a donation for the poppies, the recommended amount is a £1 donation and £1.50 for snapbands.

🖥 JamCoding Finalists 🖥

We’re thrilled to announce the Cheam Common Junior Academy's finalists in Jam Coding’s Simulation City Challenge! Over the Autumn 1 half-term, hundreds of children across our partner schools in London and Surrey have been imagining and designing their own Cities of Tomorrow - creative, innovative, and full of digital flair.

Here are Cheam Common Junior Academy's finalists:

Joshua S, Miles C, Arlo T, Joon L, Olivia C, Ray D, Alice FR, Max L, Connor G, Aarush D, Alfie T, Hayden W

Each project is now live in our Facebook Showcase, where families, friends and school communities can view, celebrate, and vote for their favourites. Every vote helps recognise your pupils’ creativity - and could help them win some fantastic prizes!

Vote and Celebrate Here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.821307990494822&type=4

School Updates

Schoolwear Inc - Uniform Update

Universal Breakfast Club

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.

Wet Play Games - donations welcome!

To help make wet play more enjoyable, we’re kindly asking for donations of new board or card games for indoor use. If you have any unopened games you’re happy to donate, please drop them off at the Junior Office.

As Chromebooks are not used during wet play, we’re encouraging more hands-on, social games like board and card games instead.

Thank you for your support!

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

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

Occupational Therapy Workshop

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.

National School Meals Week!

10th to 14th November - it's National School Meals Week! If you haven't tasted our fantastic school meals yet, make this the week you do!

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.

Ethan (Year 5)

Following on from their learning about space this term, Ethan has built the Mars Perseverance Rover, that he received for his birthday. Well done, Ethan!

Hannah (Year 5)

Hannah baked some cookies from the Year 5 Homework Matrix!

Theo (Year 5)

Hannah baked some cookies from the Year 5 Homework Matrix!

Curriculum Newsletters and Home Learning

Autumn 2 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 'Open-minded'.

3AM - Emmi and Tiara

3JH - Charlotte and Hunter

3RM - Ally and Neva

3VH - Taylor and Celine

4F - Freddie and Kanusha

4I - Leo J and Rosemarie

4J - Juan and Zoe

4S - Millie and Elliot

5D - Norden and Melia

5G - Elkan and Sharanaa

5H - Bella and Millie

5W - Elyza and Aaron

6C - Joshua and Rosie

6CB - Grey and Lily

6F - Bella and Dexter

6SB - Annabel and Finlay

🎫Golden Ticket Winner - Sumayyah (5H) 🎫

📖 Reading Raffle Winners - Ray (3VH) and Izzy (5H) 📖

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.

Austen (Year 5)

On Saturday, Austen successfully achieved his blue belt in Hapkido, having worked hard over the last few months in preparation. Due to his efforts, he and another child were also awarded medals for best performance in the grading; a very proud moment for him and his teachers.

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 10th November: Odd Socks Day

Monday 10th November: Year 6 Bikeability Week 3 (Groups 9-12)

Friday 14th November: Children in Need

Friday 14th November: Year 6 Gamechangers Workshop

Tuesday 18th November: Year 6 trip to Morden Islamic Centre

Wednesday 19th November: School Council trip to Houses of Parliament

Thursday 20th November: Alpaca Visit

Friday 21st November: Pyjama Day

Friday 21st November: Bingo Night

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

Wednesday 10th December: GymKidz Performance (9am)

Thursday 11th December: Christmas Jumper Day

Thursday 11th December: Christmas Lunch

Friday 12th December: SEND Coffee Morning

Friday 12th December: Elf Run

Friday 12th December: Rocksteady Performances (timings TBC)

Monday 15th December: Year 5 Christmas Performances (9am and 6pm)

Monday 15th December: Year 6 Christmas Performances (9:30am and 6:30pm)

Tuesday 16th December: Year 3 Christmas Performances (9am and 6pm)

Tuesday 16th December: Year 4 Christmas Performances (9:30am and 6:30pm)

Wednesday 17th December: Arts Showcase (3:45-4:45pm)

Friday 19th December: House point winners' MUFTI

Friday 19th December: Last day of term (school ends at 2:15pm)

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.

Fencing

A massive thank you to everyone who has supported the Friends of Cheam Common events over the last year or so. We are delighted to announce that we have been able to fund the brand-new fencing across our Reception outdoor area and around the Year 6 garden, ensuring better privacy for our children.

Goalkeeper kits

Another big thank you to our Friends, who have purchased new goalkeeper kits for our football teams. Check out the new kits modelled by some of our goalkeepers here -->

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