This term, we are pleased to have welcomed several new members of staff to Cheam Park Farm. All have settled in very well and really have become part of the Cheam Park Farm team.

Click here to meet our new members of staff.

We pride ourselves on offering our children varied and exciting experiences and activities that help to support their learning of the curriculum. The School Fund will allow us to provide additional activities across all year groups.

We have a voluntary school fund donation of £10 a term / £30 a year per child or £40 for a family if there are siblings at the school.

Parents can pay for School Fund online via our Arbor payment system. Log into the parent portal and on your child's home screen under accounts you will see School Fund, click into this and select Top Up Account. You can then choose to pay the £10 or £30, if paying for a family for £40 please pay on your eldest child's account). Please ignore the weekly payments, you just need to make the one off payment for either the term or academic year as you choose.

We would like to thank you for your continued support.

Whilst we have Lost Property locations on both sites, we are aware that some children have lost items that haven't been located yet. Please can we politely request that parents check name labels inside jumpers, cardigans etc. to ensure that your child doesn't have items of clothing belonging to another child. It also seems timely to remind parents that all items of clothing should be named so that we can easily return them to their rightful owner. Thank you for your assistance with this.

Children, young people and families with any concerns can contact the school nursing service via phone or email. For parents, the school nursing duty line number is 0208 770 5409 and is open Monday to Friday 9am-5pm. For children and young people who require support, the contact number is 0208 770 4409 from Monday to Friday 9am-5pm, or the email address is schoolnursing@sutton.gov.uk

Cheam Park Farm Primary Academy wishes to ensure that pupils with medical conditions receive appropriate care and support at school. This policy has been developed in line with the Department for Education’s guidance released in April 2014 – “Supporting pupils at school with medical conditions”.

Please ensure all asthma inhalers and Epipens are in date.

When a child is prescribed medication such as antibiotics ask the GP for one that can be taken three times a day – before school, after school and before bed.

We often have job opportunities that arise somewhere across the LEO Academy Trust. You can access details about jobs via the images here or keep checking the LEO Staff Vacancies section of the website by clicking here.

LEO CATERING

Our school catering provision is offered to all children across the Trust by LEO Catering, our in house catering supplier.

The menus are created and refreshed three times a year, catering for children with allergies and are available to view on the LEO trust website.

LEO meals are freshly cooked on site and our menus follow government food standard guidelines and offer excellent value at £2.30 a day for a main meal, dessert, choice of salad bar, fresh bread daily and vegetarian and Halal options. Children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 receive a free meal funded by the government’s Universal Infant Free School Meal grant and we encourage anyone in any year group who thinks they may be eligible to apply for free school meal funding to apply.

We look forward to welcoming you to our table where eating well is always our aim.

Please see the link below for further information about LEO school meals.

LEO Catering

Here are some more delicious LEO catering Autumn warming recipes!

CHRISTMAS LUNCH

Our Christmas lunch is on Wednesday 16th December. LEO catering have prepared a really tasty menu for this special occasion with dishes that will appeal to everyone! We would like as many children as possible to choose to have a school meal on this day so please do sign your child/children up for this.

FREE SCHOOL MEALS

We are happy to provide free school meals to parents who are eligible for this offer. Please see the link below for information on Pupil Premium and how to apply.

Pupil Premium

COMMUNITY FOOD SHOP

Sutton Community Works is launching its 'Foodshop' initiative on Thursday 3rd December. The Foodshop is to help families and individuals struggling on low income and finding it difficult to make ends meet, especially in these difficult times.

Click here for more information

PACKED LUNCHES

Many of our children bring packed lunches into school and we are very pleased with the time parents take to ensure the contents of the lunches are healthy. As a 'Healthy School' we would like to avoid children eating sugary food items in school. We also suggest no more than 5 items in the lunchbox so that children have time to play outside as well as eat lunch.

We would also like to remind all parents and carers that our school is a Nut Free school. This means that no child should be bringing anything into school either in their packed lunch box or as a morning snack that contains nuts. This includes spreads such as peanut butter, nutella etc. in sandwiches. We have children attending our school who suffer from severe nut allergies and, as such, cannot be exposed to any form of nuts.

Thank you for your support and understanding in ensuring that all of our children are kept safe in school.

12 Days of Christmas

The PTFA's new event, '12 Days of Christmas', is proving very popular. Many thanks to all the parents who have signed up for this already. The PTFA is busy behind the scenes putting your requests together and will be in touch in due course.

As we have only three weeks of term left, we know children will be keen to start bringing in Christmas cards. Due to our bubble restrictions, please can we ask that children only give cards in school to others in their class bubble. Many thanks for your co-operation with this and fingers crossed we will be able to have the post box out again this time next year on Molesey site!

Many thanks to parents and children who have put in so much time and effort filling shoe boxes with gifts for children who may not otherwise receive a present at Christmas. They look wonderful and will no doubt be very gratefully received.

The charity Teams4U, which supports some of the poorest children in Romania and Moldovia, as well as children in need across the world, will ensure that the shoe boxes are transported and delivered in time for Christmas.

Please click here to find out more about this very worthwhile charity.

Many thanks to everyone who has volunteered to help in school this term. We always welcome parents in school helping in classes and we are pleased to let you know that we can continue to do this this term. We know how much our children benefit from this additional support, especially at the moment when so much time in school has been missed.

Please complete this form if you are interested in helping in school.

All PTFA helpers and volunteers in class are required to complete Safeguarding training and provide a current DBS certificate. Contact the office on either school site for advice on this.

The Wellbeing team at Sutton Uplift have agreed to run some free workshop sessions for our parents starting with one called:

'Maintain Your Wellbeing as a Parent/Carer'

This is a one-off workshop covering the following topics:

- Taking care of yourself

- Overcoming barriers

- Communication

- Reactions

- Problem Solving

- Relaxation Techniques

This parent/carer workshop has previously been delivered at other schools around the borough with great success. Many of the attendees have valued being amongst others who are going through similar experiences, whilst also learning concepts and techniques that can help them maintain a more positive lifestyle.

Please see this link to the Sutton Uplift flyer for more information.

A reminder to everyone that the post box outside the main entrance (M) is secure and can be used as a drop off point for communication. It is opened every day.