CCI Newsletter 10th January 2025

Cheam Common Infants' Academy

Weekly Newsletter

Friday 10th January 2025

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

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

Happy New Year!

We would like to welcome our children, staff and families back to school. We hope you had a safe and restful holidays. We are looking forward to a busy term ahead.

School Updates

Spring 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

Midday Supervisor Vacancy

Cheam Common Infants' Academy is looking for a Midday Supervisor to start ASAP. The hours are 7.08 per week, 1 hour 25 minutes per day, from 11:30 to 12:55. This is a fixed contract until the end of the academic year.

The ideal candidate will be patient and calm by nature, be firm but fair in matters of discipline, be a good role model to the children, and be aware of equal opportunity issues. They must also be able to maintain the confidentiality aspects of the job.

To apply, please refer to this Midday Supervisor - Cheam Common Infants' Academy.

LEO MUFTI Day

Initial Teacher Training

🥜 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 see Spring Term options here.

Weekly School and Sporting News Stories

Nursery and Reception

Nursery explored shapes this week, and had a lot of fun getting hands on in Maths.

Reception have also been learning about numbers 1-5 and spotted the staircase pattern when building towers of numbers! We also got creative and designed and made handbags!

Reception have been learning about Space! A rocket crash landed in our garden and we wrote posters to inform everyone!

Year 1

We have had a busy week in Year 1 as we have introduced all our new subjects for this Spring Term. The children really enjoyed exploring their senses in science, especially tasting food that was sour, salty and sweet. It was very funny watching them eat a piece of lemon! In R.E they thought about their families and how special they were to them. In English we have begun our new book Halibut Jackson. The children wrote some lovely character descriptions of the shy boy who likes to camouflage himself. They tried really hard to write smaller and neater in their ‘new’ books with thin lines. In Maths the children have been learning about addition, they are learnt new vocabulary addends, expressions and sum. They have made us very proud as they have made equations using the expression + and = to solve addition. What a busy week it's been!

It has been a very cold start to the year. Please ensure hats, scarves and gloves are clearly labelled.

Year 2

Year 2 has had a fantastic start to the new term! The children have been enthusiastically exploring materials in science. Each class created a sustainable sculpture of ‘Leo the Lion’ by reusing recycled materials. We then investigated different household objects, identifying which materials they were made from, and how the properties of the materials made them good for the purpose of the product.

We have begun our history learning about how transport has changed over time. The children were amazed at how different bicycles and cars looked in the past. We created a timeline of vehicle inventions to develop their understanding of chronological order and the progression of technology.

Well done Year 2 for all your hard work this week.

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.

Isla (Nursery)

Happy birthday! Thank you for your book donation.

Christopher (Year 1)

Happy birthday! Thank you for your book donation.

Freddy (Year 2)

Happy birthday! Thank you for your book donation.

School Achievements

⭐️ Stars of the Week ⭐️

🐝 Weekly 3 Bees Certificate 🐝

⭐️ Nursery ⭐️

Ducklings - Clementine

Cygnets (full time) - Gunav

Cygnets (part time) - Tion

⭐️ Reception ⭐

Badgers - Milo

Foxes - Evie

Hedgehogs - Verity

Squirrels - Jamie

🐝 Nursery 🐝

Ducklings - Lily

Cygnets (full time) - Martin

Cygnets (part time) - Rayan

🐝 Reception 🐝

Badgers - Ruyi

Foxes - Roman

Hedgehogs - Tvesha

Squirrels - Mala

⭐️ Year 1 ⭐️

Finches - Venya

Robins - Kabir

Sparrows - Freddie

Wrens - Teddy

⭐️ Year 2 ⭐

Eagles - Aiden

Falcons - Brodie

Kestrels - Neeharika

Owls - Milo

🐝 Year 1 🐝

Finches - Teddy

Robins - Harvir

Sparrows - Dylan

Wrens - Hannah

🐝 Year 2 🐝

Eagles - Isla

Falcons - Charlotte

Kestrels - Tiara

Owls - James F

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!

Dominic (Year 2)

Dominic recently played in London Junior Chess Championships Under 8 finals during Christmas. He played 7 games in 2 days, and finished 8th out of 98 players qualified to the finals!

Spring 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 17th January: LEO Foundation MUFTI Day

Wednesday 29th January: Chinese New Year (children to wear traditional clothing if they wish)

Thursday 6th February: NSPCC Number Day

Friday 7th February: Friends of Cheam Common Quiz Night

Tuesday 11th and Wednesday 12th February: Year 2 trips to Brooklands

Friday 14th February: SEND Coffee Morning

Thursday 27th February: KS2 Discos *see below for ticket information*

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

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

Friday 28th February: KS1 Disco *see below for ticket information*

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

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