CCI Newsletter 7th March 2025

Cheam Common Infants' Academy

Weekly Newsletter

Friday 7th March 2025

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

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

🪵 EYFS Garden - donations welcome! 🪴

As the weather starts to improve, we're turning our attention to the EYFS forest area. We would be very grateful for any donations of unwanted stepping stones, logs or plants that could enhance this space for our children!

If you have any donations, these would be welcomed at the school office or to class teachers.

Spring 2 Curriculum Newsletters

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

Reminders

Please can we remind parents that children should not be bringing their own toys or Pokémon cards into school. These can be a distraction to children and can cause distress if they get lost.

Additionally, we would recommend that children are taken to appointments outside of school hours. When children have lunchtime appointments, it can take some time to find these children, who may have just sat down to eat their lunch.

School Updates

World Book Day

Friday 7th March

We would like to say a huge thank you to our children and families for their phenomenal outfit efforts during World Book Day. Please see some of our creative children below. What a wonderful way to celebrate reading across the school!

We would also like to say a massive thank you to those children who submitted their entries for our Book in a Jar competition. We have received some amazing, creative ideas and look forward to sharing these entries in Celebration Assembly next Friday.

Red Nose Day

Friday 21st March

This year Red Nose Day is on Friday 21st March and, as a school, we would like to raise some money for this great cause as well as the children having lots of fun!

This year’s theme is ‘Do Something Funny For Money’, we are asking all children to come to school with ‘Crazy Hair’. We are asking for a donation, with the suggested amount being £1, which will be collected at the gate as the children come into school. Please see below some examples of ‘crazy hair’ ideas…

We hope that the children enjoy the day and hopefully, we as a school, can raise some money for Comic Relief. As always, thank you for your continued support. We look forward to seeing your crazy hairstyles!

Mrs Hughes

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School lunches

Here are the lunch options for next week.

You can see Spring Term options here.

Eat Them to Defeat Them

This campaign to encourage children to eat more vegetables is coming into its seventh year. Involvement in this campaign has been proved to lead to increased vegetable consumption over the long term and with 29% of children eating less that one portion of vegetables a day it is important that we make every attempt to improve our children's diets. Look out for the daily vegetable that we will be encouraging your children to eat. Starting with carrots our catering team are adding a tasty and healthy carrot cake to the menu so your children can receive their 'eat them to defeat them sticker.'

Weekly School and Sporting News Stories

Nursery and Reception

Nursery have been reading Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. They created pictures of the characters and setting in the story. They also read the story of Cinderella during their NELI sessions and created invitations, which was their special word in NELI.

Reception have been reading Somebody Swallowed Stanley. We learnt about how rubbish affects animals, in particular sea creatures. We learnt about recycling and how we need to safely dispose of, recycle and reduce our rubbish.

Year 1

We started off the week with an amazing experience, Tom’s Talking reptiles. The children were all incredibly brave as they touched or held a cockroach, gecko, tortoise and snake. It was wonderful to see so many children overcome their fears and learn all about the reptiles. In science this week the children learnt about another animal group birds, they wrote characteristics of a bird. The children completed all their assessments this week, maths, reading and writing and we are very pleased with the progress they are making. What a lovely way to end the week with World Book Day, the children loved dressing up and all looked fabulous. Thank you!

Year 2

This week our young artists have been exploring the fascinating world of primary and secondary colours, and experimenting with mark-making using a variety of unconventional tools. From the textured imprints of cotton reels and LEGO bricks to the bold strokes of forks and even tyres, the children were thrilled to see the colourful and unique results of their creative exploration. The classroom was a burst of colour and a testament to their imaginative spirit!

In writing, we delved deeper into the captivating story of "Ossiri and the Bala Mengro." To enhance their descriptive writing, the children have been mastering the art of similes and expanded noun phrases. They've been working hard to create vivid character and setting descriptions. Next week, they'll put these skills to the test as they retell the story from the Ogre's perspective, promising some exciting and imaginative narratives!

Our budding mathematicians have been busy learning to count and combine different coins to make specific amounts. Through hands-on activities, they've gained practical experience in understanding the value of money and developing their problem-solving skills.

The children thoroughly enjoyed their Real dance classes, where they collaborated with partners to create dynamic standing shapes and explored movement transitions between these static poses. It was wonderful to see them working together, expressing themselves through movement, and developing their physical coordination.

What a busy week we have had!

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.

Dylan (Nursery)

Happy birthday! Thank you for your book donation.

School Achievements

⭐️ Stars of the Week ⭐️

🐝 Weekly 3 Bees Certificate 🐝

⭐️ Nursery ⭐️

Ducklings - Nylah

Cygnets (full time) - Lana

Cygnets (part time) - Fariz

⭐️ Reception ⭐

Badgers - Joe

Foxes - Jack

Hedgehogs - Penny

Squirrels - Julia

🐝 Nursery 🐝

Ducklings - Roman

Cygnets (full time) - Robyn

Cygnets (part time) - Shivani

🐝 Reception 🐝

Badgers - Rudvik

Foxes - Billie

Hedgehogs - Isla

Squirrels - Bruce

⭐️ Year 1 ⭐️

Finches - Isabella

Robins - Rudy

Sparrows - Delilah

Wrens - Aarav

⭐️ Year 2 ⭐

Eagles - Sienna

Falcons - Meliha

Kestrels - Aser

Owls - Elvina

🐝 Year 1 🐝

Finches - Ilyas

Robins - Sebastian

Sparrows - Chloe

Wrens - Millie

🐝 Year 2 🐝

Eagles - Mila

Falcons - Tiana

Kestrels - Luka

Owls - Dominic

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 Great South London Bake, and made a volcanic lava cake in the bake off tent in 90 mins .. the pressure was on, the volcanic eruption was wild. The chocolate and raspberry flavoured cake was delicious!

Spring 2 Curriculum Newsletters and Home Learning

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.

Spring Term Dates

Please find below all the key dates and times for next week and for the Spring Term.

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

New dates

2024 - 2025 Term dates

Friday 14th March: PTA Krispy Kreme Donut Sale

Friday 21st March: Red Nose Day (Crazy Hair encouraged!)

Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th March: Parent Consultation Evenings

Owls dates are Monday 17th and Thursday 20th March

Thursday 3rd April: Rocksteady Performances (9:30am)

Friday 4th April: Last day of term (2:05pm finish)

Saturday 5th - Monday 21st April: PTA Easter Trail

Monday 7th - Monday 21st April: Easter Holidays

Monday 5th May: Bank holiday

Thursday 8th May: Year 1 trip to Hobbledown

Friday 9th May: PTA Bingo Night

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!

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