CCI Newsletter 13th December 2024

Cheam Common Infants' Academy

Weekly Newsletter

Friday 13th December 2024

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

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

School Updates

☕️ SEND Coffee Morning ☕️

Thank you!

Thank you to those of you who turned up to our festive SEND Coffee Morning today. We are proud to offer a space for parents to meet and talk about their experiences, and look forward to offering more of these dates in 2025.

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.

Christmas dates

Please find attached any important festive dates for December.

Holiday Club

Please see below for more information about the Cheam Common Holiday Club,

Rocksteady: Spring Term

Please find information about how to sign your child up to RockSteady lessons.

Thank you to those parents who came along to watch the performance this week.

🥜 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

Reception have been reading Stickman this week and completing Christmas themed activities. We decorated Christmas trees and stockings and made glittery snowflakes!

Nursery have been learning the Nativity story and have been creating pictures and models. We also had great fun changing the colour of snowballs!

Year 1

Year One have had a lovely week. The children really enjoyed wearing Christmas jumpers and had a delicious Christmas dinner. It was so lovely to see their excitement as they opened their crackers and told jokes to their friends. It has been a busy week of rehearsing for our nativity play and the children are excited to perform next Tuesday and Wednesday to their grownups. In science the children investigated what material would be best for curtains. They predicted and tested four materials and were able to explain why cotton would be most suitable. In English, they children have explored invitations and have written lovely invitations to the Egg Box Dragon from the Queen. They had to describe what fun games there would be and what yummy food the Queen would have. In Maths the children have continued learning about shape. Finding faces of 3d shapes and sorting them. They have explored and identified 2d shapes using vocabulary ‘a circular has one curved side and no corners. We can’t believe next week is our last week of term!

Year 2

Year 2 has had a very busy week! The children designed and created their own litter pickers to help keep our community clean. They then evaluated their designs to see how effective they were.

We’ve been exploring the importance of being active. Through observations, we learned about how exercise affects our heart rate and breathing.

We’ve been building our number skills! Students have been practicing column addition and subtraction with renaming, becoming more confident in their calculations.

Get ready to be amazed! Our students have been rehearsing hard for the upcoming nativity performance. We can’t wait to share their talents with you next 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.

Joe (Reception)

Happy birthday! Thank you for your book donation.

Amelia (Reception)

Happy birthday! Thank you for your book donation.

Elliot (Reception)

Happy birthday! Thank you for your book donation.

School Achievements

⭐️ Stars of the Week ⭐️

🐝 Weekly 3 Bees Certificate 🐝

⭐️ Nursery ⭐️

Ducklings - Theo

Cygnets (full time) - Robbie

Cygnets (part time) - Raya

⭐️ Reception ⭐

Badgers - Daniel

Foxes - Gareth

Hedgehogs - Eyad

Squirrels - Ella

🐝 Nursery 🐝

Ducklings - Felix

Cygnets (full time) - Max

Cygnets (part time) - Tion

🐝 Reception 🐝

Badgers - Daisy

Foxes - Jack

Hedgehogs - Noah

Squirrels - Mark

⭐️ Year 1 ⭐️

Finches - Zachary

Robins - Sebastian

Sparrows - Thomas

Wrens - Fatemah

⭐️ Year 2 ⭐

Eagles - Louis

Falcons - Theo G

Kestrels - Tito

Owls - Cora

🐝 Year 1 🐝

Finches - Anisa

Robins - Louie

Sparrows - Mark

Wrens - Milo

🐝 Year 2 🐝

Eagles - Archie

Falcons - Savannah

Kestrels - Orela

Owls - Penelope

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!

Gareth (Reception)

Gareth received a Paddle 3 award in swimming.

Dominic (Year 2)

Dominic won a bronze medal in an Under 8 chess tournament held in Petersfield (Wey Valley Christmas 2024). His result also makes him qualified for the U8 final (London Junior Chess Championship 2024) to be held in Uni of Westminster on 29-30 December.

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 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 ✉️

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