CCI Newsletter 18th October 2024

Cheam Common Infants' Academy

Weekly Newsletter

Friday 18th 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

TOMORROW: Sutton United vs Oldham Athletic

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!

Friday 25th October: MUFTI Day

Bonfire Night Lunch

Year 2 Local Area Walk

Tuesday 5th November

Eagles and Falcons: 9:40-10:30am

Kestrels and Owls: 10:45-11:35am

If you are free to volunteer, please email the school office.

🧸 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.

Parent Online Safety Working Party

Parent Online Safety Working Party.pdf

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.

🥜 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 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

Nursery have been looking for signs of Autumn this week! They played outside with the Autumn leaves and they created pictures of a tree in Autumn using scrunched up tinfoil to create leaf shapes.

Reception have been reading Hello Friend and learning about how to be good friends. We have also been looking at signs of Autumn and counting objects to 10. We have been practising the stem sentences 1 and another 1 makes 2 and also 1 and 1 and 1 makes 3.

Year 1

The children have all worked really hard this week. We were very proud of their wonderful Missing posters, helping the bear to find his hat. In Maths the children enjoyed learning the name of the digits 0-5. They have been partitioning numbers 0-5 systematically and have been learning to double! In Geography the children have thought about jobs people do in their local area and wrote simple sentences. In science they have been learning about signs of Autumn please can the children bring in autumn objects for the children to explore in the outside area eg conkers, pine cones, acorns, etc.

Year 2

This week, we have been learning about Black History Month and some significant past and present figures in this movement.

In Financial Literacy, we have been learning about the different ways that children and adults can get money, and have shared our aspirations about the jobs we would love when we are older!

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.

Evie (Reception)

Thank you for your book donation!

Kian (Reception)

Thank you for your book donation!

Giacomo (Nursery)

Thank you for your book donation!

Chi Tung (Year 1)

Thank you for your book donation!

School Achievements

⭐️ Stars of the Week ⭐️

🐝 Weekly 3 Bees Certificate 🐝

⭐️ Nursery ⭐️

Ducklings - Rory

Cygnets (full time) - Ella

Cygnets (part time) - Gio

⭐️ Reception ⭐

Badgers - Leon

Foxes - Riley

Hedgehogs - Zayd

Squirrels - Hugo

🐝 Nursery 🐝

Ducklings - Sienna

Cygnets (full time) - Robbie

Cygnets (part time) - Joel

🐝 Reception 🐝

Badgers - Viaana

Foxes - Thea

Hedgehogs - Ava

Squirrels - Nicholas

⭐️ Year 1 ⭐️

Finches - Gordon

Robins - Jake

Sparrows - Clara

Wrens - Amelia

⭐️ Year 2 ⭐

Eagles - Remi

Falcons - Aarathe

Kestrels - Rose

Owls - Vivienne

🐝 Year 1 🐝

Finches - Yan Yan

Robins - Kabir

Sparrows - Chi Tung

Wrens - Annabel

🐝 Year 2 🐝

Eagles - Louis

Falcons - Reeve

Kestrels - Ibrahim

Owls - Charlie

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!

Bella (Year 2)

Bella worked on a shoot in the summer for Hobbycrafts Halloween campaign. What an achievement - well done, Bella!

Dylan (Nursery)

To celebrate Black History Month, Dylan cooked a traditional African meal with his family. Well done, Dylan!

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)

Friday 25th October: 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)

Tuesday 5th November: Year 2 Local Walk

Tuesday 5th November: Bonfire Night School Lunch

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 Anti-bullying 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)

Wednesday 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 for Foxes and Badgers @ CCI (2.15pm)

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

Tuesday 17th December: Reception Christmas Performance for Hedgehogs and Squirrels@ CCI (2.15pm)

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

Early Years support package 2.pdf

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