CCI Newsletter 13th September 2024

Cheam Common Infants' Academy

Weekly Newsletter

Friday 13th September 2024

Cheam Common Infants' Academy: Balmoral Road, Worcester Park, KT4 8SS

Email: ccioffice@leoacademytrust.co.uk https://www.cheamcommoninfants.com/

School Updates

Individual school photos

On Thursday 19th September, your child will be having their individual school photos taken. Please ensure that children are wearing their full school uniform, including a school jumper or cardigan.

The children will also have their photos taken with their siblings in the school later in the day.

Does your child have a sibling at Cheam Common Juniors?

Come along to the Cheam Common Junior Academy hall on Wednesday 18th September from 8-8:45am, to have your CCI/CCJ sibling photo taken. This is always a popular occasion so please turn up earlier than usual.

PE Lessons

From this week, all children in Reception, Year 1 and 2 will start their PE lessons.

Please see a reminder below of which days each class has PE. Children should wear their PE kit to school; there is no need to get changed at school.

PE kit reminder:

White T-shirt

Red shorts or black/grey tracksuit bottoms

School jumpers/cardigans/fleeces to be worn if needed (not own jumpers)

Labelled belongings

It would be appreciated if all children's belongings were labelled clearly with their name, especially jumpers, coats and water bottles.

School Tours

Please find information about school tours for new Year 3s in September 2025.

School lunches

Here are next week's lunch options.

Year 1 and 2 Curriculum Meetings

Vacancy: Midday Supervisor

Thank you to our parents who attended the Year 1 and 2 Curriculum Meetings this week. Please find the slides attached below.

Year 1 Year 2

Cheam Common Junior Academy currently have a vacancy in their team for a Midday Supervisor.

For further details, please follow this link.

Crystal Palace Women: 25% off tickets

Palace Women have a very important league fixture at Selhurst Park in just two weeks time, and we would love nothing more than for our local schools to have the opportunity to be there and become part of Crystal Palace history.

Kicking off at 7:30pm on Friday 27th September, we will be taking on Chelsea in our first ever home game in the Barclays Women’s Super League.

This is your opportunity to see our new squad in action, as well as Lionesses like Lauren James, Millie Bright and Lucy Bronze under the lights at Selhurst Park!

We would like to offer you some exclusive discount codes so yourself, the pupils and their guardians/parents can all be there.

We are giving all local schools 25% off with the promo code: CPFCWSCHOOLS at checkout!

Simply just click on this link and add the tickets you want to your basket followed by the promo code.

Weekly School and Sporting News Stories

Nursery and Reception

Nursery have had fantastic settling sessions this week. We have been building using construction and have been sharing the toys really well.

Reception have had an amazing first week at school! Everyone is settling in and trying their best and we are so proud of all of you! We have been learning about Jack and the Beanstalk this week and have done lots of exciting activities linked to this.

Year 1

Year One have settled in really well into the new routines of Year One.

💻They have loved logging in to their Chromebooks and using their special keypad, although this was tricky and we need lots more practice.

📖 We are very proud of their writing of simple sentences describing Meesha, their new story character from ‘Meesha Makes Friends.’

🧮 The children have really loved counting all the way up to 100 and shouting the tens. What a busy week we have had!

Year 2

Year 2 have returned with maturity and excellent learning behaviours this term. They have been enthusiastically engaged with their wider curriculum learning. They used ‘Now Press Play’ to enjoy a Florence Nightingale experience where they learnt why she is such an important historical figure. The children are developing their oracy skills by using the Tales Toolkit format to create stories which enable them to develop their confidence at using scientific vocabulary and tier three language. A fantastic start to the term Year 2, well done!

Birthday celebrations

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.

If you do bring in treats, we will NOT hand them out. We expect you and your child to hand them out so you can check if parents are happy for their child to receive the treat.

School Achievements

⭐️ Stars of the Week ⭐️

🐝 Weekly 3 Bee's Certificate 🐝

⭐️ Nursery ⭐️

Ducklings - Jasmine

Cygnets (full time) - Jean

Cygnets (part time) - Lana

Badgers - Imogen

⭐️ Reception ⭐

Badgers - Imogen

Foxes - Peter

Hedgehogs - Archie

Squirrels - Jamie

🐝 Nursery 🐝

Ducklings - Thea

Cygnets (full time) - Lucy

Cygnets (part time) - Fariz

Badgers - Oliver

🐝 Reception 🐝

Badgers - Oliver

Foxes - Gareth

Hedgehogs - Alice

Squirrels - Julia

⭐️ Year 1 ⭐️

Finches - Rhylee

Robins - Joshua D

Sparrow - Joshua

Wrens - Lottie

⭐️ Year 2 ⭐

Eagles - Viaan

Falcons - Albert

Kestrels - Jaden

Owls - Ally

🐝 Year 1 🐝

Finches - Jesse

Robins - Diana

Sparrow - Alice

Wrens - Joshua

🐝 Year 2 🐝

Eagles - Sienna

Falcons - Estelle

Kestrels - Ronnie

Owls - Cora

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!

Curriculum Newsletters and Home Learning

Click on the links below to read our curriculum newsletters. On these, you can find out the topics that your children will be learning about, as well as information about home learning, PE days and general reminders for their year group.

Nursery Reception Year 1 Year 2

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 Infants' 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 ccioffice@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 next week and for the Autumn Term.

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

New dates

2024 - 2025 Term dates

Tuesday 17th September: Nursery first full day

Wednesday 25th September: Year 1 Local Area Walk

Friday 27th September: Macmillan Coffee Morning (9:30am in CCJ hall)

Monday 30th September - Friday 4th October: Harvest donations welcome

Tuesday 1st October: KS1 Harvest Celebration at Christ Church with St. Philip

Wednesday 2nd October: SEND Coffee Morning (at CCJ hall)

Friday 4th October: School tour (for Nursery and Reception 2025 starters)

Click here to sign up.

Friday 11th October: School tour (for Nursery and Reception 2025 starters)

Click here to sign up.

Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th November: Parent Consultation Evenings

Friday 15th November: Children in Need

Monday 16th December: Reception Christmas Performance @ CCI

Monday 16th December: KS1 Nativity Dress Rehearsal @ Christ Church with St. Philip

Tuesday 17th December: Reception Christmas Performance @ CCI

Tuesday 17th December: KS1 Nativity Performance @ Christ Church with St. Philip

Wednesday 18th December: KS1 Nativity Performance @ Christ Church with St. Philip

Thursday 19th December: Nursery Christmas Singalong : CCI

Friends of Cheam Common - Updates

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

The Friends of Cheam Common will be distributing secondhand uniform to anyone may need it.

If this is something you would be interested in, please contact them on friendssecondhanduniform@gmail.com.

✉️ Friends of Cheam Common email address: Friends_CCA@outlook.com ✉️

SEND & Inclusion Updates

Sutton's new SEND Local Offer

Please follow this link to Sutton's new SEND Local Offer

Click the image above for further information!

Sutton Dyslexia Association

The next meeting of Sutton Dyslexia Association will be on Tuesday 24th September 20224 at 8pm via zoom. Myles Pilling will be giving a talk on "Great assistive technology to aid teaching and learning ".

A talk on how IT can support dyslexic learners. This could be helpful for all ages.

Myles was a special schools teacher for 28 years and then ICT SEN Advisor for 10 years. He now runs his own Assistive Technology business.

If anyone would like to join the zoom meeting, please register in advance by sending first name, surname and email address to

admin@suttondyslexia.org.uk

The access details will be sent by email on the morning of the meeting so recipients can join the meeting from 7.55 pm.

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

HSS-Nurturing-Program.pdf

Family Support Workers

Please click here to access our Family Support Workers portal with lots of information and resources to support you.

Parents flyer Sept - Dec 2024.pdf

Mental Health and Wellbeing Update

Local Activities and Events - General Information

Great News! The Sutton Education Trust has arranged for Happy's Circus to visit in September.

The circus will take place at Foresters Primary School in Wallington on Wednesday 25th, Thursday 26th and Friday 27th September. Tickets are priced at just £12 each at the 'early-bird' price if you book before the end of July. Tickets go on sale at 8am on Wednesday 5th June - make sure you get in quick to secure your seats.

Happy’s Circus provides a professional all human (no animals) 2.5 hour experience presented by a 15-strong touring team in a colourful Big Top seating 600.

The experience starts with a 15/20 minute pre-show warm-up, followed by a 45-minute performance which precedes a 30-minute interval, ahead of a second 45-minutes of entertainment. At the end of the show, there is the opportunity for free of charge photos with the performers.

The show features different acts and is hosted by the Ring Mistress and Clown introducing Acrobats, Aerialists, Speciality Acts, Magic and Audience Participation with loads of fun and much, much more!

You can order your tickets by visiting the Sutton Education Trust Eventbrite Page at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/sutton-education-trust-84881740893

These are evening performances and children will need to come with families.

We look forward to seeing you there!