Weekly Newsletter
8th March 2024
REMINDERS
School Site Safety
Please be reminded that Parents and Carers are not able to stay on site to watch either morning or after school clubs. Our gates open at 8.25am and no children or Parents/Carers should be on site before this, unless attending a club.
School Gates Times
Parents and Carers of children who attend Aces will be let through the gate before 8.25am. Please do not let anyone through the gate as you are leaving. If you are leaving your children outside school before 8.25am, please ensure they know that they must not come in before the gates open at 8.25am, even if the gate is opened to let someone into breakfast club.
Please also be reminded that Parents and Carers should not enter the school building via any other entrance than the School Office. If you are late to collect your child, please come to the Office
Considerate Parking
If you are driving to drop your children off or pick them up from school, please park considersately on the surrounding roads. Please don't park over driveways or over the zig zag lines.
Uniform/Clubs
Please ensure your child brings their uniform including school shoes to get changed into if attending morning clubs, many thanks.
Chromebook Agreement
Please click here to view the whole agreement
I understand that the equipment provided under the scheme is being facilitated and funded by the Trust to support learning. I will ensure my child brings the equipment to school each day and that it is fully charged. I understand that if the device isn’t charged, my child won’t experience the full benefit of the Chromebook programme.
Swimming
Water safety is a vital life skill, which is why it is a mandatory part of the curriculum for PE at primary school. The curriculum says pupils should be taught to perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations. Children at Cheam Fields are required to take part in their Swimming lessons.
Please ensure your child has their kits with them on their allocated swimming day.
DIARY DATES SPRING TERM
Spring Term 2024
Thursday 14th March & Friday 15th March - Year 3 Science Museum - Details here
Friday 15th March - Red Nose Day - Details here
Monday 18th - Friday 22nd March - Last Week of School Led Clubs - Craft Club will not be running due to parent consultations
Friday 22nd March - Easter Bonnets - Details here
Thursday 28th March - End of Spring Term, school finishes at 2pm
Summer Term 2024
Monday 15th April - Back to school
Monday 15th April - Friday 19th April - Year 5 Kingswood Residential - Details here
Thursday 18th April - Year 3 - Egyptian Workshop - Details here
Thursday 25th April - Mufti/own clothes day - PTFA Event - Details here
Tuesday 30th April - Big Sing 1 - Details to follow
Wednesday 22nd May - Disco - PTFA Event - Details here
Monday 27th May - Friday 31st May - Half Term
Monday 3rd June - Inset Day
Tuesday 4th June- Back to School
Tuesday 11th June - Big Sing 2 - Details to follow
Saturday 22nd June - Summer Fair - PTFA Event - Details here
Monday 24th June - Wed 26th June - Year 4 High Ashurst Residential - Details here
Friday 12th July - Year 6 - Prom - Details here
Monday 15th July - Friday 19th July - Year 6 Isle of Wight Residential - Details here
Future Term Dates here
SPORTS CALENDAR
BOOK FAIR
Thank you to everyone who came and purchased items at our recent Scholastic book fair. With your support, our sales totalled approximately £1560, of which we receive a percentage back as rewards money to purchase books for our school. Thanks to your generosity, this year we will receive just over £900 pounds which we plan to use to buy additional non-fiction books for your child's book corners.
WORLD BOOK DAY
The Cheam Fields community enjoyed dressing up for this years world book day, their were some brilliant constumes, from Umpa Lumpa's to Sherlock Holmes! Thank you to all the parents/carers for helping the children bring their favourite characters to life.
LEO SPORTS EASTER CAMPS
We are pleased to introduce LEO Sports Camps, the camps will be run by our own LEO sports instructors. They will be held at Brookfield Primary Academy, Cheam Park Farm Primary Academy & Manor Park Primary. We will be running our sports camps from Tuesday 2nd April to Thursday 11th April from 9am until 3pm. There will be different sports activities throughout the week, daily sports challenges and competitions. Please ensure that you book the correct venue that you require.
All details can be found here
ACES - CHEAM FIELDS WRAP AROUND CARE
Aces Extended Services - Places available
We have spaces in our wraparound provision on selected days. If you would like to find out about availability, please email aces@leoacademytrust.co.uk.
SUTTON COUNCIL FOOD VOUCHERS
End of food vouchers for school holidays
Food vouchers during the school holidays for families in receipt of benefits-related free school meals are no longer available. This follows the government’s Household Support Fund coming to an end at the end of March 2024. The last round of vouchers were issued over the February 2024 half term.
Other support for families is still available, including the Holiday Activities and Food programme. If you are on benefits-related free school meals you will soon receive your unique booking voucher for our Easter Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme, which provides SEND-friendly holiday activities and healthy food throughout the day.
SPIRITED ARTS COMPETITION
Why Animals Matter? Explore Your Beliefs Through Spirited Arts!
Do you love animals? Have you ever wondered why they're here, and how we should treat them? Then the Spirited Arts Competition is the perfect place for you to unleash your creativity and delve into the theme: Why do Animals Matter?
Please click here for more details. All entries to be labelled and handed to your class teacher
COGNUS SCIENCE WEEK COMPETITION
To celebrate Science Week, Cognus would like to invite pupils in your school to enter the following competition. The activities for each aged group are outlined below.
Early Years & Key Stage 1
Design a season’s wheel or a poster that shows the lifecycle of a plant or animal that is special to you.
Key Stage 2
Design an A3 poster to demonstrate the importance of time in science.
Key Stage 3 and above
Design a science book cover/sleeve that shows the importance of time in science. Indicate if your book cover/sleeve is for an Early Years, Primary or Secondary book.
All entries should be named and sent to your class teacher labelled Cognus Science Competition by Tuesday 19th March 2024 .
Winning entries in each category will receive a science book appropriate to their age and their work will be displayed within the Cognus offices. We look forward to receiving entries from your school.
ATTENDANCE MATTERS
At Cheam Fields Primary Academy we recognise that good attendance gives our children the best possible opportunity for learning and reaching their full potential. Children need to attend school regularly if they are to take full advantage of the education opportunities available to them as well as their relationships with friendship groups. Giving your child the best start in life is every parent or carer’s wish. The opportunity to learn and make progress is essential to improve life chances. Good attendance is key to securing this.
Illness - If your child is going to be off school due to illness, please complete our Absence form here by 8:30a.m on each day of Absence giving the reasons for any absence, this is an important safeguarding issue for the school.
Appointments - If your child has to have an appointment during school time please fill in the appointments form here. If your child will be in school over the lunch period please ensure you have filled in if they will be school dinners or packed lunch. A copy of any evidence for appointments can be emailed or brought into the office.
Exceptional Absence - Taking holidays in term time affects children’s schooling as much as any other absence and the school expects parents to help us by not taking children away in school time. There is no automatic entitlement in law to time off in term time to go on holiday. The Governing Body does not sanction absence during term time. Any authorisation given by the Principal will be at her discretion and only in exceptional circumstances.
Please fill in the request for exceptional absence here.
MEDICINES IN SCHOOL
We are able to administer prescription medicines in school. However we only administer medicine when the course cannot be completed at home. If you are unable to do this we would kindly ask that you do the following:
Complete the medicine form here
Ensure medicines are clearly labelled and in date
Come to the office with your child and their medicine before school each day
Your child will receive a medication label
Collect your medication from the office each day
PARENT/CARER SUPPORT
Please click here to be taken to our Support page which has information on Parent/Carer workshops/courses/resources in the local community or online
TRANSITION SUPPORT
Please click here for information about transferring to Secondary School.
Please note that this information is for Transfer to Secondary 2024 and has not been updated for 2025 yet.
PTFA NEWS
We would like to extend a sincere thank you to the PTFA for their hard work and dedication throughout the year. Their efforts have made a significant impact on our school community. Their efforts have gone on to raise valuable funds which have purchased a new playground equipment for Early Years and a Scooter Storage. Brilliant, Thank you!
LEO SCHOOL AGE RANGE CONSULTATION 2024
Consultation to increase the age range of Cheam Fields Academy. Please click here to view the letter sent out to parents/carers here
EDURIO PARENTS/CARERS SURVEY - COMING SOON!
LGFL HOMEPROTECT PARENT INFO
What is HomeProtect?
Keeping children safe is in LGfL’s DNA. We have long been known for safeguarding expertise in education, training, research & policy, but also technology.
For many years we have provided schoolsafe internet filtering, but now we also have supersafe filtering for the home.
Please click here for more information
LEO LOTTERY
The LEO Lottery raises money to enhance the opportunities for ALL our pupils!
Join our weekly lottery from just £1 a week
It’s an easy way to support our Trust and help raise funds for LEO Foundation projects
40% of ticket sales come back to us
There’s a guaranteed winner every week as well as the chance to win £25,000
It’s easy to sign up online so start supporting our Trust today!
Last year, funds raised by the LEO Foundation supported our LEO PRIDE Awards in EYFS, our ECB All Stars Cricket Development Centre for Year 2 pupils, Mandarin lessons for Year 5 pupils and our Year 6 Junior Citizenship Programme.
Your support is greatly appreciated and we wish you good luck!
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