CCI Newsletter 17th - 21st November 2025

Cheam Common Infants' Academy

Weekly Newsletter

Monday 17th - Friday 21st November 2025

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

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

Message from the Principal

Thank you to everyone who donated money or brought in pyjamas for our ‘Children’s Hospital Pyjamas appeal’. The children showed real empathy when I was explaining in assembly why we were wearing them. Thanks to ‘The Friends of CC’, the children had the wonderful opportunity to stroke, pet and feed our visiting alpacas on Friday morning. It is not everyday that you get to come to school in pjs and stroke a friendly alpaca. These are the moments and memories that we hope will stay with the children for years to come.

As I was leaving school on Friday night the Friends were busy setting up the hall for their ‘Bingo night’ which was a sell out. I’m sure everyone had a great time and as always we extend a huge thank you to the Friends’ Committee for organising such great fund raising events for both children and parents.

Year One also had a wonderful time on Thursday engaging in the Victorian toy drama workshop. I had the pleasure of taking part in this with Wrens Class. The children had a lovely time playing with the old toys and exploring how much fun toys can be even if they don’t need electricity to run or are made of plastic.

This week truly has been a week of awe and wonder. Watching the children enjoy the snow fall on Wednesday was magical. Although it melted quickly some of the children had the opportunity to catch a falling snowflake and for some it was the first time they had seen snow. The cold weather of course brings a range of colourful hats and gloves into school. Please make sure you name these. We already have a growing collection of unnamed items in our lost property box.

I just wanted to give you all a gentle reminder that in the morning the infant school gates shut at 8.40am and the junior school gates shut at 8.45am. When the gates shut at 8.40 we are able to start our phonics sessions at 8.45am. When the children arrive between 8.30 to 8.40 their teachers are able to welcome and settle the children and get them ready for their days learning. We would really welcome your support in getting the children on time. It means they have the opportunity to eat their breakfast snack and check in with their teachers before rushing off to phonics.

Mrs Hughes

Parent Workshops

Seesaw Workshop Slides

Phonics Workshop Slides

Phonics: Yellow Group and Beyond Slides

Reception Curriculum Meeting Slides

Coming Soon

Date TBC: English as an Additional Language - how to support your child

School Updates

🦙 Alpaca Visit 🦙

We were so excited to meet Truffle and Artie, the alpacas this week. Check out some of our photos below!

A massive thank you goes to the Friends of Cheam Common, who funded this opportunity for our children.

👂Year 1: Routine Hearing Screening 👂

Please note that we will not be offering free routine hearing screenings in Year 1 this year.

If you are worried about your child's hearing, you can book a free hearing test at Boots. Click here for more information.

⚽ Sutton United vs Shrewsbury Town ⚽

Fixture Highlight: Sutton United vs Shrewsbury Town - Emirates FA Cup - Sat 6 Dec, 15:00

This is a huge game for the club as we look to progress to the next round of the FA Cup, where we could face some of the biggest names in football! This could be the start of our next historic FA cup run and we would love for you to be a part of it. Under 14s tickets are just £2 and an adult and a child can attend for only £20, so let's fill the stands with as many fans as possible.

Tickets can be purchased directly via this link: https://suttonunitedfc.ktckts.com/product/SUTFACUPROUND2

We hope to see you there cheering the team on, it promises to be a fantastic atmosphere and a great day out for young fans, teams, and community groups.

🏥 Christmas Pyjama Campaign 🏥

As we quickly approach the festive season, we have decided to run our pyjama fundraiser again, similarly to last year . Our chosen charity for the festive season is ‘Children’s Hospital Pyjamas’. This amazing charity donates brand new pairs of pyjamas to poorly children in hospital over the Christmas period. The charity’s vision is to ‘spread love through comfort during the Christmas season’ to children who unfortunately have to spend their Christmas holidays in hospital. In line with the LEO outcomes, we aim to encourage healthy and active learners who care about our world and we feel this would be a great way for our students to give back to our local community.

If you would like to help us support this charity, we are asking for either donations of brand new pyjamas or money that will go towards buying new pyjamas.

Due to the location of our school, we have decided that we will be donating our pyjamas to our local hospitals. We are donating to:

- St George’s Hospital (Tooting)

- Kingston Hospital (Kingston Upon Thames)

To confirm, we are only able to accept BRAND NEW pyjamas due to the vulnerability of the children who will be receiving the pyjamas. Unfortunately second hand pyjamas are not accepted. The pyjamas can be any size ranging from baby sizes - 10 years old. Alternatively, monetary donations are also welcomed and will be used to purchase new pyjamas to go towards our donations.

The deadline for all donations is Friday 5th December. Please hand pyjamas into the school office or to your child's classroom.

Breakfast and After School Club: How to change, book or update

Please email cciwac@leoacademytrust.co.uk or phone 07739360621.

Email communication

If you are emailing in with a message about your child, please include their name and class (ideally in the subject line). Collectively, this will save our office staff a huge amount of time.

Sutton School Nurse details

School Nurse leaflet 5-11.pdf

Important Information: School Place Applications for September 2026

Crucial information for parents regarding applications for both Reception and Year 3 Junior school places for September 2026. If you have already submitted your application or this does not relate to you, please ignore.

It is imperative that you submit an application, as current Nursery and Year 2 children do not automatically receive a place.

Key Information & Resources:

Application Deadline: The national deadline for both Reception and Year 3 is 15th January 2026.

Where to Apply:

For both Reception and Year 3 Junior School Places: You must complete the application for the Local Authority (LA) you pay your council tax to, regardless of where your preferred schools are located. If your LA is not the London Borough of Sutton, please refer to your own LA's admissions section.

London Borough of Sutton Rec Guidance Booklet: Primary School guidance booklet (for reception applications).

London Borough of Sutton Junior Guidance Booklet: Junior school guidance booklet (for Year 3 applications).

Primary Reception Key Dates

Junior School Key Dates

Online Application System: https://www.eadmissions.org.uk/

Video Guide: A video with screenshots to walk you through the online application process is available on YouTube.

Upcoming School Open Days

Local schools will be holding open days throughout the autumn term.

CCI open day dates are advertised on our website: https://www.cheamcommoninfants.com/720/admissions.

Please sign up for a specific tour time using the Google Form link provided on that webpage.

We look forward to welcoming you!

Important Information: Nursery Applications

Academic Year 2026/2027

Crucial information for parents apply for the Nursery for September 2026, January and April 2027 intake. If you have already submitted your application or this does not relate to you, please ignore.

It is imperative that you submit an application, directly to the school.

Key Information & Resources:

Application Deadline: The deadline is 15th January 2026 (no later than 3.30pm)

Nursery Application Form 2026/2027

CCIA Starting Nursery Guidance 2026/2027

Nursery Admissions Policy 2026/2027

Labelled belongings

It would be appreciated if all children's belongings were labelled clearly with their name, especially jumpers, coats and water bottles.

Family Support Worker - referral form

If you would like to explore ways that our Family Support Worker could support your family, please complete this Google Form.

When should my child come back to school?

My child is unwell (1).pdf

Universal Breakfast Club

School lunches

Here are the lunch options for next week.

You can see Autumn Term options here.

Weekly School and Sporting News Stories

Early Years

Nursery

Our nursery children had a wonderful week exploring The Gruffalo! They loved listening to the story and then reenacting their favourite parts using props and plenty of imagination. They also got creative by painting the characters and even making their very own “Gruffalo crumble” with porridge oats. They enjoyed the first snow of the year, experiencing the magic of winter together.

Reception

Reception have had a super week continuing their learning about The Little Red Hen. They explored the setting of the story and drew pictures and wrote about the farm. They explored the idea of parts and wholes in maths and enjoyed naming their own body parts that made the whole of them. They then looked at numbers and found different parts within those numbers eg: 1 is a part, 1 is a part, the whole is 2!

Year 1

Wow, what a fun end of the week Year One had especially after the children had worked so hard completing assessments for English and Maths, we are very proud of the progress they are making.

They absolutely loved the Victorian Workshop and enjoyed pretending to be a Victorian child working in an old factory. They played with a wide variety of old toys like tin spinning tops, wooden cups and balls. They all listened so attentively and we were very proud of how well they engaged.

Wearing their pyjamas on Friday was incredibly exciting and visiting the alpacas was such a treat. The children got to feed the alpacas with a piece of carrot and have a stroke or cuddle.

In D.T the children made a washing line, using a base and brace to keep the washing line stable. In Science the children explored materials and matching it to objects. We hope you have a lovely weekend.

Year 2

What an exciting week we've had, complete with snow, alpacas, and Pyjama Day! Despite the fun distractions, Year 2 remained focused on their learning and achieved truly wonderful results across all subjects.

Our budding writers finally had the chance to publish their non-chronological reports on nocturnal animals. They worked carefully to structure their writing using paragraphs, titles, and subheadings, ensuring they shared amazing facts supported by their own beautiful illustrations.

In Maths, the children continued to practice addition and subtraction of 2-digit and 1-digit numbers bridging ten. They effectively used their knowledge of number bonds to ten and the concept of 'renaming' (regrouping) to work practically with Dienes blocks. These core skills were then applied to a real-life situation by calculating and adding up prices.

For Design and Technology (DT), children developed their understanding of simple machines by practicing their cutting skills to construct a lever. They will soon put this practical skill to good use when they design and create their own litter pickers.

We developed our enquiry skills in Geography by analyzing data to help us decide which kind of new shop would best serve the Worcester Park high street. The children demonstrated fantastic critical thinking and creativity, suggesting wonderful ideas to fill a vacant shop, including a sweet shop, a book shop, a new soft play centre, and even an aquarium!

Have a well-deserved rest this weekend, Year 2—you have worked incredibly hard!

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.

We will share any photos of children and their birthday books here every week!

Neve (Year 1)

Beau (Reception)

⭐️ School Achievements ⭐️

🐝 Weekly 3 Bees Certificate 🐝

⭐️ Star of the Week ⭐️

This week's Explorer Value is 'Aspirational.

🐝 Nursery 🐝

Cygnets - Karthi

Ducklings - Adira

🐝 Reception 🐝

Badgers - Dhruv

Foxes - Dylan

Hedgehogs - Aliya

Squirrels - Grace

⭐️ Nursery ⭐️

Cygnets - Frankie

Ducklings - Beau

⭐️ Reception ⭐️

Badgers - Felix

Foxes - Fariz

Hedgehogs - Charlotte

Squirrels - Thea

🐝 Year 1 🐝

Finches - Eila

Robins - Aiden

Sparrows - James

Wrens - Milo

🐝 Year 2 🐝

Eagles - Diana

Falcons - Joe

Kestrels - Tehillah

Owls - Lottie

⭐️ Year 1 ⭐️

Finches - Ava

Robins - Adam W

Sparrows - Cohen

Wrens - Summer

⭐️ Year 2 ⭐️

Eagles - Deniz

Falcons - Ezra

Kestrels - Ayas

Owls - Charlotte

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!

Louis (Year 1)

Louis received a medal for efforts with his swimming achievement .

Eliana (Nursery)

Eliana completed Stage 1 swimming lessons and is now is Stage 2!

Yusuf (Year 1)

Yusuf Kerem won a medal in his swimming lesson this week - well done!

Autumn 2 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.

Reception Year 1 Year 2

Important information

Communication

To help us assist you more efficiently when you email the school office, we kindly request that you include your child's class along with their name in your correspondence.

While we know all our students very well, having the class information readily available helps us to quickly identify your child and address your queries without any delay or guesswork.

For example, please consider writing: "Regarding [Child's Full Name], [Class, e.g., Year R - Squirrels]" in the subject line or at the beginning of your email.

Your cooperation in this matter is greatly appreciated and will help us continue to provide the best possible support to you and your children.

Thank you for your understanding.

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.

Reporting Attendance

We ask that you use one of the google forms below to report absence.

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.

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:

You can also log same-day absences for your children directly through the Parent Portal or Arbor App. Simply navigate to the Attendance section, click "Log Absence," and fill in the details. You can adjust the start and end times if it is not a full-day absence. Once submitted, school staff will review and either approve or reject the request. You will see approved absences in the Attendance tab.

Please note, this feature is only for same-day absences; for any extended or future absences, please continue to complete and submit the request for exceptional absence. We will also continue to use the same day absence google form. If you need to change an unapproved absence request, you will need to delete it and create a new one, as editing is not possible. Once an absence is approved, it cannot be deleted through the app, so you will need to contact the school for any further modifications

Autumn Term Dates

Please find below all the key dates and times for the Autumn Term.

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

New dates

2025 - 2026 Term dates

Monday 8th December: Badgers and Foxes Christmas Performance (2pm)

Tuesday 9th December: Squirrels and Hedgehogs Christmas Performance (2pm)

Wednesday 10th December: Nursery Christmas Performance (9:15am)

Thursday 11th December: Rocksteady Concert (9:30am)

Thursday 11th December: Christmas Jumper Day

Thursday 11th December: Christmas Lunch

Friday 12th December: SEND Coffee Morning

Friday 12th December: Elf Run

Tuesday 16th December: 9.15 Christmas Performance (Y1 and Y2 performing) Y1 parents/carers invited

Wednesday 17th December: 9.15 Christmas Performance (Y1 and Y2 performing) Y2 parents/carers invited

Friends of Cheam Common - Updates

The Friends of Cheam Common now has Facebook group, where you can follow any updates on upcoming events or how you can get involved.

Fencing

A massive thank you to everyone who has supported the Friends of Cheam Common events over the last year or so. We are delighted to announce that we have been able to fund the brand-new fencing across our Reception outdoor area and around the Year 6 garden, ensuring better privacy for our children.

Secondhand Uniform

A gentle reminder, please only donate the items listed below.

Logo jumper

Logo cardigan

Logo fleece

Logo waterproof jacket

Logo PE tshirt

Logo polo shirts

Junior PE black quarter zip top

Ties

Red PE shorts

Please do not donate, shirts, or grey uniform items; we have very limited storage space and we can’t store those items currently. We will let you know when we are able to accept these items again.

Thank you so much for supporting the second hand uniform sale on Friday. We are delighted that good quality school uniform can be reused and help families.

Going forward, we need to reduce the uniform service that we offer unfortunately. We will no longer be taking uniform email requests for the foreseeable future. The uniform service has expanded immensely with donations and requests over the past year. Whilst it has been absolutely wonderful to offer this service to the school community; sadly, we don't have the volunteers to sustain the huge amount of time this service requires.

However, we are very happy to still offer a termly uniform sale, where we'll have plenty of uniform on offer to stock up for the term ahead.

Please leave donations at either the Infants’ or Junior’s office.

We hope you understand the decision we've had to take, and we thank you, as always, for your continued support.

SEND & Inclusion Updates

Click the image above for further information!

Sutton Dyslexia Association

The next meeting of Sutton Dyslexia Association will be via zoom. It is a 2 Part course for parents, entitled "How to help your child with Dyslexia"

Monday 1st December 2025, 8-9 pm

Monday 26th January 2026, 8-9 pm.

The first session deals with the experience of dyslexia for child and parent and how to give support.

The second session is looking at reading, spelling, and writing, and how to help. It also looks at the school structure and the exam process.

The course will be led by Louise Selby, who is a teacher with a level 7 specialist qualification in teaching and assessing learners with specific learning difficulties and dyslexia. She has written a program called Morph Mastery.

If you would like to join the meeting, please send your first name, surname and email address to

admin@suttondyslexia.org

You will be sent access details the morning of the meeting , so that you can join the talk from 7.45 pm.

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