CCI Newsletter 11th October 2024

Cheam Common Infants' Academy

Weekly Newsletter

Friday 11th October 2024

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

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

School Updates

Sutton United x Cheam Common Infants & Juniors

As part of Sutton United’s efforts to stay connected with the community, they have reached out to invite Cheam Common Infants and Juniors to join their latest initiative “Team Up For Tickets”.

This initiative gives Friends the chance to sell tickets to a home game and receive back 50% of the value of tickets sold (excl. VAT). Whether you love football or simply fancy a family day out, supporting a local team, this could be the event for you! Tickets for children are free, hopefully encouraging even more of our families to make the most of a great day out!

Our school’s dedicated fixture is:

Sutton United v Oldham Town on Saturday 19th October 2024 (3pm)

Tickets can be bought here.

We hope this will offer many of you a fantastic day out whilst raising money for our school!

🥫 Harvest donations - thank you!🥫

🧸 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.

The Storm Whale - opportunity for Year 2 children

This half term, our Year 2 children have been reading the Storm Whale in their classes.

Thank you to those parents who have informed us that the Storm Whale is currently on stage at the Polka Theatre. You can find out more information and book tickets here.

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.

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.

Applications for our primary ITT courses are now open for September 2025! Our initial teacher training is a fully immersive school-centred programme - aspiring teachers will be in the classroom from the very start. But full immersion does not mean that you will be thrown in the deep end: our trainees are mentored and have central training once a week.

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

School Tours

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.

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.

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

Attendance

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.

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.

Weekly School and Sporting News Stories

Nursery and Reception

In Nursery this week the children have read their core text Pete the Cat. They made Pete the Cat using craft materials. In Maths, they have been looking at the numerals 1,2 and 3. They have been practising recognising and writing them and linking them to a corresponding amount.

In Reception this week the children have read their core text Ruby’s Worry. They have made the ‘Worry’ from the story and discussed who they can tell if they feel worried. They have also focused on the number 2 and have practised making this in different ways eg: with conkers!

Year 1

Year One have had a fun week of learning. In English we have been reading ‘I want my hat back’. They have learnt some new writing skills. The children wrote questions to ask the Bear to help him find his hat. They found writing a question mark a little tricky! In Maths, we have been learning about part part whole and partitioning numbers to 5. They have been brilliant at practically moving the counters and have recorded very well. In geography the children have been thinking about what type of home they live in. In Science the children have been learning about the four seasons and which months of the year are in each season. They have been looking at seasonal changes in Autumn.

Year 2

In English, this week the Year 2 children have become authors! They have developed their own characters and incorporated them into a narrative about a lonely child who makes friends with a lost sea creature. We can’t wait to share them with you once they are finished. In maths the children applied their knowledge of number bonds to complete addition bridging 10. In Art, they used a combination of oil pastels and watercolours to create beautiful autumn leaf pictures. Great work Year 2!

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.

Joshua (Year 2)

Thank you for your book donation!

Imaan (Nursery)

Thank you for your book donation!

Sienna (Year 1)

Thank you for your book donation!

School Achievements

⭐️ Stars of the Week ⭐️

🐝 Weekly 3 Bees Certificate 🐝

⭐️ Nursery ⭐️

Ducklings - Evie

Cygnets (full time) - Abeer

Cygnets (part time) - Robyn

⭐️ Reception ⭐

Badgers - Clara

Foxes - Roman

Hedgehogs - Riya

Squirrels - Hannan

🐝 Nursery 🐝

Ducklings - Harry

Cygnets (full time) - Shivani

Cygnets (part time) - Eann

🐝 Reception 🐝

Badgers - Joe

Foxes - Gabrielle

Hedgehogs - Kayla

Squirrels - Adelyn

⭐️ Year 1 ⭐️

Finches - Harry

Robins - Joshy

Sparrows - Jai

Wrens - Gummy

⭐️ Year 2 ⭐

Eagles - Nilan

Falcons - Tiana

Kestrels - Carson

Owls - Dominic

🐝 Year 1 🐝

Finches - King

Robins - Jack M

Sparrows - Leo

Wrens - Hannah

🐝 Year 2 🐝

Eagles - Erin

Falcons - Joshua

Kestrels - Jude

Owls - Sophie

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

Friday 25th October: Mufti Day (Friends) Last day of half term finish at normal time

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

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

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

Click here to sign up.

Friday 8th November: CCI Disco Night

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

Monday 11th November: Odd Socks Day to commence Antibullying Week

Tuesday 12th - Friday 15th November: Book Fair

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

Thursday 14th November: SEND Coffee Morning at CCJ

Friday 15th November: Children in Need (SPOTacular - wear spots!)

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

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

Click here to sign up.

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

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

Thursday 12th December: Christmas Jumper Day and Christmas Lunch

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: Reception Christmas Performance @ CCI (pm time tbc)

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

Tuesday 17th December: Reception Christmas Performance @ CCI (pm time tbc)

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

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 ✉️

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

Sutton Dyslexia Association

The re-scheduled talk for Sutton Dyslexia Association by Myles Pilling will be on Tuesday 15th October via zoom at 8 pm. He will be talking on "Great Assistive Technology to Aid Teaching and Learning": a talk on how IT can support dyslexic learners of all ages.

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

admin@suttondyslexia.org.uk

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