CCI Newsletter 4th October 2024

Cheam Common Infants' Academy

Weekly Newsletter

Friday 4th October 2024

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

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

School Updates

🥫 Harvest donations - thank you!🥫

Thank you so much to our families who donated goods to our Harvest Festival collection this week.

We were so proud of our Year 1 and 2 children for performing at our annual Harvest Festival at Christ Church with St Philip on Tuesday morning.

If you forgot to donate this week, there is still time! Our Harvest donations are being delivered on Wednesday morning.

Gate reminders

A reminder that our main playground gate is open from 8:30-8:40am every morning. Our Phonics lessons start at 8:45am across the school and it is important that teachers are back in class at this time and the children have been registered and are ready for their new learning. If you would like to speak to your child's class teacher for a longer meeting, please email the office to arrange this.

School Tours

Attendance

Now that the new school year is underway, we would like to remind you of our school attendance and punctuality expectations and procedures.

As many of you will be aware, there have been significant changes to the statutory attendance guidance, these changes came into effect on 19th August 2024. Our Attendance Policy has been revised to reflect these changes. Please click below for the updated policy.

Attendance Policy

The changes aim to improve school attendance and ensure that all students receive the education they deserve.

Parking reminder

We ask our parents to please be mindful of parking restrictions around our school. We care about our local community and want to ensure we do not impact their lives negatively.

Please take care not to block driveways when parking, not to park on the zig-zagged lines outside the office, and to be patient with one another.

BBC 500 Words Competition

There are two age categories: 5-7 and 8-11 year-olds. All children need to do is write a story they would love to read in 500 Words or less.

We would love children of all abilities to enter; spelling, punctuation and grammar are not marked - it's all about creativity!

50 finalists will be invited to go to a glamorous grand final at Buckingham Palace in February next year, where the bronze, silver and gold winners in each category will have their stories read out by celebrities.

There are also lots of prizes to be won - each winner will take home a bundle of books and the gold winners also win 500 books for their school library.

Not only that, the winning stories will receive an original illustration from Dapo Adeola, Nigel Parkinson, Lydia Monks, Momoko Abe, Rob Biddulph or Yasmeen Ismail.

It's incredibly important to us that children of all abilities and backgrounds are able to take part in the competition; therefore each school that enters a story and receives 50% free school meals or more, is entitled to a £50 National Book Token and three £10 book tokens for their pupils.

School lunches

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

Year 1 and 2 Curriculum Meetings

Budding Artists Club: Monday afternoons

Slides for the Year 1 and 2 Curriculum Meetings are attached below.

Year 1 Year 2

🏷 Labelling belongings 🏷

Please ensure that your child's belongings are clearly labelled, especially water bottles, coats and jumpers. Our lost property box is already overflowing with items of clothing that are not named.

BA letter Cheam Infant school autumn term 24.docx.pdf

Weekly School and Sporting News Stories

Nursery and Reception

In Nursery this week, the children have continued learning about emotions and things that make us feel that way. They have also done some gardening in the outside learning area!

In Reception this week the children read Splat the Cat and looked at signs of Autumn. They have been working on leaf rubbings, created Harvest baskets and created their own cat characters!

Year 1

It was amazing to see Year One perform at St Phillips church for KS1 Harvest Festival. They were so excited to sing! They sang so beautifully, we were really proud of them and we hope you enjoyed it. The children have been very busy with their learning this week. In English they have been using tales toolkit and they wrote about the character Beegu, the setting, problem and solution. Writing fully independently as a whole class was challenging! In Maths this week the children have really enjoyed learning about whole and parts. They practically chopped fruit and playdough to find parts. They also found part of a number in a group. In geography the children created maps of their local area in small groups, they had lots of fun plotting on landmarks and identifying whether they are physical or human features.

Year 2

In Maths this week Yr 2 continued to 2-digit numbers and exploring patterns on 100 squares.

We have some amazing artists who produced beautiful observational drawings of autumn leaves. We enjoyed celebrating our Black History Month Heroes. Each class researched and wrote about a different hero and shared them across the year group and developed our public speaking skills in our assembly. In Science we practised our research skills and had a wonderful time reading about how to care for different animals.

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.

Lottie (Reception)

Thank you for your book donation!

School Achievements

⭐️ Stars of the Week ⭐️

🐝 Weekly 3 Bees Certificate 🐝

⭐️ Nursery ⭐️

Ducklings - Giacomo

Cygnets (full time) - Edward

Cygnets (part time) - Maya

⭐️ Reception ⭐

Badgers - Joshua

Foxes - Khalid

Hedgehogs - Govind

Squirrels - Rex

🐝 Nursery 🐝

Ducklings - Kai

Cygnets (full time) - Leeyanah

Cygnets (part time) - Isla

🐝 Reception 🐝

Badgers - Jesse

Foxes - Sophia

Hedgehogs - Izzy

Squirrels - Lyra

⭐️ Year 1 ⭐️

Finches - Nadia

Robins - Lora

Sparrows - Isabella

Wrens - Shreya

⭐️ Year 2 ⭐

Eagles - Isla

Falcons - Jack M

Kestrels - Lilly

Owls - Freddie

🐝 Year 1 🐝

Finches - Sophie

Robins - Leela

Sparrows - Ananya

Wrens - Kristen

🐝 Year 2 🐝

Eagles - Suah

Falcons - Theo G

Kestrels - Alice

Owls - Indie

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!

Archie (Year 2)

Archie joined a local football team called Tigers and on their first game he scored a hat-trick and won man of the match.

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

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

Click here to sign up.

Friday 25th October: Last day of half term

Monday 28th October - Friday 1st November: Half term

Monday 4th November: INSET Day (children not at school)

Thursday 7th November: School tour (for Nursery and Reception 2025 starters)

Click here to sign up.

Thursday 7th November: CCJ Disco Night

3:30-4:30pm Year 3 and 4 4:45-5:45pm Year 5 and 6

Friday 8th November: CCI Disco Night

3:30-4:30pm Year 1 and 2

Book Fair: Tuesday 12th -Friday 15th November

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

Thursday 14th November: SEND Coffee Morning

Friday 15th November: Children in Need

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

Click here to sign up.

Friday 13th December: Rudolph Run

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

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 ✉️

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!

Early Years support.pdf

Early Years support package 2.pdf

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

Developing Skills in Emotional Self-Regulation.pdf

Creating a Positive Bedtime Routine.pdf

Understanding and Supporting my Child’s Early Development.pdf