CCI Newsletter 15th November 2024

Cheam Common Infants' Academy

Weekly Newsletter

Friday 15th November 2024

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

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

School Updates

Christmas dates

Please find attached any important festive dates for December, including a link to sign your child up for Christmas lunch.

Children's Hospital Pyjamas Campaign

Every year, we support Kingston Hospital and St George's Hospital in our Christmas Pyjama Campaign.

We are collecting donations of pyjamas from generous families throughout November. If you would like to donate, this would be hugely appreciated. Any donations can be handed to class teachers.

Thank you for your support.

Autumn 2 Curriculum Newsletters

Please find our new Curriculum Newsletters attached for the second half of the Autumn Term. Many year groups are starting completely new topics with new Homework Matrixes, so it is worth checking.

Nursery Reception Year 1 Year 2

🧸 Year 1 Victorian Toy Workshop 🪀

Monday 18th November

Next half term for our history learning, the children will be learning all about the world of toys and the role that they play in entertaining us, educating us, and stimulating our imagination. As historians, they will be finding out about the ways in which toys have changed over time. To enhance their learning, we would like the children to participate in an interactive Victorian drama workshop.

After learning some well-known Victorian parlour games, the children will have the opportunity to handle and examine a large selection of wooden, tin and cloth replica toys, to discover how they work and how they are made. Thus bringing their learning to life!

The cost of this workshop is £4.50 per child. We would be grateful if you could make this payment via your Arbor account by 4th November, under the trip section.

Parent Guide for Digital Tools

Parent Guide to Digital Tools for Home.pdf

Train to teach with LEO Academy Trust

LEO Academy Trust is incredibly proud to work in partnership with the National Institute of Teaching as an Associate College to deliver Initial Teacher Training, (ITT) Early Career Framework (ECF) and National Professional Qualifications (NPQs) from September 2025. Associate Colleges are successful school trusts, selected because of their wealth of in-house expertise in professional development and their deep relationships in their local areas. This collaboration allows us to be at the forefront of educational excellence, providing local teachers with unparalleled opportunities for professional growth, learning and development. Together, we are shaping the future of teaching and learning, ensuring that every child receives the highest quality education.

To apply for a place on our ITT programme please click here.

🥜 Allergy reminder 🥜

This is a friendly reminder that Cheam Common Infants' is a nut-free school. This policy is in place to protect children with severe nut allergies, which can cause life-threatening reactions.

Please do not send any food items containing nuts to school with your child. This includes, but is not limited to:

All types of nuts: peanuts, almonds, walnuts, cashews, pecans, Brazil nuts, hazelnuts, pistachios, macadamia nuts
Monkey nuts
Chocolate spread (e.g., Nutella, which often contains hazelnuts)
Chocolate filled crepes (e.g., Sainsburys own as these contain hazelnut filling)
Peanut butter
Baked goods that contain nuts or nut flour
Snacks and cereals that may contain nuts or have "may contain" warnings

Even trace amounts of nuts can trigger a severe allergic reaction in some children. We appreciate your cooperation in keeping our school a safe environment for all students.

School Tours

School lunches

Here are the lunch options for next week. You can click on the image to see all options for the term.

Weekly School and Sporting News Stories

Nursery and Reception

Year 1

Year One really loved dressing up for Children in Need and they enjoyed some fun activities, as they learnt about how children are supported. This week, Year One particularly enjoyed Design Technology learning and exploring stable and unstable structures. They were very excited watching their towers fall down and were taught how to make a stable base. The children proudly made and showed their friends their stable structures. In Maths, the children have been exploring number lines and identifying 7 is nearest to 10 than 0. They have also been partitioning numbers 6-10. In English the children have enjoyed listening to the whole story of Lost in the toy museum and have been using tales toolkit to write the setting. It was so lovely to meet you all at parents' evening and we hope you were proud of their wonderful work.

Year 2

This week Year 2 have been developing their map skills in Geography. They really enjoyed exploring atlases, globes and Google earth for the features of maps. Then had a wonderful time using Google earth to find their homes, school and other features of the local area. In Science they have been comparing the similarities and differences of the life cycles of chickens and butterflies. They correctly identified that ‘’Both lay eggs but chickens do not have to go through metamorphosis!’’ Fabulous use of key vocabulary this week 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.

Thea (Reception)

Happy birthday! Thank you for your book donation.

Jamie (Reception)

Happy birthday! Thank you for your book donation.

Aarav (Year 1)

Happy birthday! Thank you for your book donation.

School Achievements

⭐️ Stars of the Week ⭐️

🐝 Weekly 3 Bees Certificate 🐝

⭐️ Nursery ⭐️

Ducklings - Anbine

Cygnets (full time) - Martin

Cygnets (part time) - Eann

⭐️ Reception ⭐

Badgers - James

Foxes - Lily

Hedgehogs - Ida

Squirrels - Eeshal

🐝 Nursery 🐝

Ducklings - Fraser

Cygnets (full time) - Suraya

Cygnets (part time) - Arber

🐝 Reception 🐝

Badgers - Tilda

Foxes - Felicity

Hedgehogs - Penny

Squirrels - Ellie

⭐️ Year 1 ⭐️

Finches - Ilyas

Robins - Raeesa

Sparrows - Mason

Wrens - Archie

⭐️ Year 2 ⭐

Eagles - Pauls

Falcons - Ava

Kestrels - Yuxi

Owls - Viaan

🐝 Year 1 🐝

Finches - Ayas

Robins - Matteo

Sparrows - Joe

Wrens - Niva

🐝 Year 2 🐝

Eagles - Briena

Falcons - Theo C

Kestrels - Khawar

Owls - Ewan

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!

Casey (Year 2)

Casey took part in the Remembrance Parade on Sunday 10th November with the Beavers. He followed in his Great Grandfather’s foot steps who fought in WW2 and used to take part in the Remembrance Parades.

Kyle (Reception)

Kyle recently won a medal recognising the improvement he has made in his weekly football class - Totstars.

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

Monday 18th November: Year 1 Victorian Toy Workshop (in school workshop)

Wednesday 20th November: School tour (for Nursery and Reception 2025 starters)

Click here to sign up.

Thursday 21st November: Flu Inoculations for Rec, Y1 & Y2

Wednesday 27th November: Year 1 Hearing Screening

Friday 29th November: Wreath Making Workshop (7.00pm)

Friday 6th December: Doughies Pizza order deadline

Thursday 12th December: Christmas Jumper Day and Christmas Lunch

Thursday 12th December: Year 1 Hearing Screening

Friday 13th December: Rudolph Run (children only)

Friday 13th December: KS1 (Y1 & 2) Nativity Dress Rehearsal @ Christ Church with St Philip (children only)

Monday 16th December: KS1 (Y1 & 2) Nativity Dress Rehearsal @ Christ Church with St Philip (children only)

Monday 16th December: Reception Christmas Performance for Foxes and Badgers @ CCI (2.15pm)

Tuesday 17th December: KS1 Nativity Performance @ Christ Church with St Philip (9.15am -10.00am)

Tuesday 17th December: Reception Christmas Performance for Hedgehogs and Squirrels @ CCI (2.15pm)

Wednesday 18th December: KS1 Nativity Performance @ Christ Church with St Philip (9.15am-10.00am)

Thursday 19th December: Nursery Christmas Singalong @ CCI (time tbc)

Friday 20th December: Last day of term (2:10pm finish)

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 ✉️

Christmas Raffle

You can enter our Christmas Raffle here.

Raffle Poster_A4_2024.pdf

SEND & Inclusion Updates

Sutton's new SEND Local Offer

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

24-25 Early Years Parent Webinars - Poster - Education Wellbeing Service.pdf

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