CCI Newsletter 28th March 2025

Cheam Common Infants' Academy

Weekly Newsletter

Friday 28th March 2025

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

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

Friday 4th April

Last day of term (2:05pm finish)

Wrap Around Care (5:00 pm finish)

Reception - Mill Farm Experience

Wednesday 30th April

We are delighted to inform you that we have arranged an educational visit from Mill Cottage Farm Experience on Wednesday 30th April. This visit forms part of our unit of learning ‘From Ant to Elephant’ and provides the children with a wonderful opportunity to meet and learn about a wide range of farm animals.

The farm will be visiting us for the day based in the CCJ grounds. Reception classes will take turns to visit the farm and will be accompanied by their class teacher and additional adults.

We are very keen for this visit to take place and therefore request a voluntary contribution of £6.00 per pupil to be paid via Arbor before Monday 21st April. Please note that refunds cannot be made if your child is absent on the day. If insufficient voluntary contributions are received this visit might have to be cancelled. However if you have difficulty in affording the above amount, please come to see us privately either at the classroom door or speak to the office staff.

Year 1 - Hobbledown Trip

Thursday 8th May

We are excited to announce that Year 1 will be going on an educational visit to Hobbledown. As Scientists, we have been learning all about animals and classifying their features. Hobbledown will be a wonderful experience for them to explore a variety of mammals, reptiles, amphibians and birds. It will allow them to enrich their scientific vocabulary as they discuss the animals and see them first hand. We will also be participating in an ‘Interactive Animal Experience’ consisting of a meet-and-greet session with a range of animals. This will be run by a qualified animal keeper, who will discuss habitats, adaptations, identification and features with the children.

On Thursday 8th May the whole year group will visit Hobbledown. We will leave school by coach at 9.00 a.m. Please ensure that your child arrives at school promptly at 8.30am. We will return to school at 3.00 pm. If we are delayed in getting back, an email will be sent out from the school office to parents.

🪵 EYFS Garden - donations welcome! 🪴

As the weather starts to improve, we are turning our attention to the EYFS forest area. We would be very grateful for any donations of unwanted stepping stones, logs or plants that could enhance this space for our children!

If you have any donations, these would be welcomed at the school office or to class teachers.

We would like to thank Isla in Hedgehogs and her family for providing us with three trays of primulas and some compost that have added a super splash of colour to our Reception 'Forest Area.'

Spring 2 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

Reminders

If your child has grapes as a snack, could you ensure that these are cut into halves or quarters so that your child is able to eat them safely.

There is a huge amount of lost property at the moment. This will be displayed in the playground at pick up and drop off when the weather is good enough. Please ensure children's uniforms are named.

School Updates

Calling all creatives and builders!

We are looking for any creative parents and families with building skills or links with local builders who would like to make a branded resource.

We would love to be able to provide our new Reception 'Forest School', gravel garden and outside continuous provision area with a Messy Kitchen! We know that these can be built using old pallets and wood and were wondering whether there were any parents who would be able to help with this?

Please contact the school office if you feel that this is something that you could help with. Any help would be beyond appreciated!

We've been adopted - April 2025

School lunches

Here are the lunch options for next week.

You can see Spring Term options here.

Eat Them To Defeat ThemFind out more about Eat Them To Defeat Them, the multi-award-winning ad campaign and schools' programme proven to get kids eating more veg!

Eat Them to Defeat Them

This campaign to encourage children to eat more vegetables is coming into its seventh year. Involvement in this campaign has been proved to lead to increased vegetable consumption over the long term and with 29% of children eating less that one portion of vegetables a day it is important that we make every attempt to improve our children's diets. Look out for the daily vegetable that we will be encouraging your children to eat. Starting with carrots our catering team are adding a tasty and healthy carrot cake to the menu so your children can receive their 'eat them to defeat them sticker.'

Weekly School and Sporting News Stories

Nursery and Reception

Nursery have been reading Biscuit Bear! They drew their own biscuit bears and decorated them. They also painted spring flowers. Their special word in NELI this week was smell. They added lemon scent to the water tray!

Reception have been learning about Ramadan and Eid! We tried dates and learnt about Mendhi patterns. We have been practising making doubles patterns with different objects!

Year 1

Year One have enjoyed their learning this week. In English they have begun their new book ‘One day in the blue planet in the savannah’. The children have enjoyed exploring African animals and wrote detailed descriptions of lions. We were very proud of their sentences and they are using conjunctions more confidently. The children loved learning about nocturnal animals and wrote a non fiction information page on bush babies.

In Maths, the children have been challenged this week as they have explored doubles of 20. They have used known facts to 10 to make 20 e.g I know that 4 + 3=7 so I know 14 + 3 = 17.

In Science, the children enjoyed learning about amphibians. We have tadpoles in Robins which is very exciting!

In DT, the children have begun their own moving pictures and have created their background, they are excited to complete it next week. We hope you have a wonderful Mother’s Day, one week to go for the Easter holidays :)

Year 2

Year 2 developed essential research skills this week, learning to extract information and transform it into coherent sentences while exploring the fascinating world of Emperor penguins through Thinglink, stories, and documentaries.

Students honed their critical thinking and scientific reasoning by applying the 'Mrs. Gren' criteria to classify objects as living, dead, or never alive, engaging in respectful debates.

Practical application of analogue clocks strengthened their time-telling skills, as they worked in pairs to set and draw specific times.

Artistic expression flourished as students explored gestural mark-making, drawing inspiration from Van Gogh to create vibrant still life pieces using self-mixed colours and diverse painting techniques.

Well done Year 2 for another week of fantastic learning!

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 (Nursery)

Happy birthday! Thank you for your book donation.

Jessica (Year 2)

Happy birthday! Thank you for your book donation.

Suraya (Nursery)

Happy birthday! Thank you for your book donation.

Felix (Nursery)

Happy birthday! Thank you for your book donation.

School Achievements

⭐️ Stars of the Week ⭐️

🐝 Weekly 3 Bees Certificate 🐝

⭐️ Nursery ⭐️

Ducklings - Adelaide

Cygnets (full time) - Martin

Cygnets (part time) - Abeer

⭐️ Reception ⭐

Badgers - Ruyi

Foxes - Trilok

Hedgehogs - Evelyn

Squirrels - Summer

🐝 Nursery 🐝

Ducklings - Rory

Cygnets (full time) - Robbie

Cygnets (part time) - Tion

🐝 Reception 🐝

Badgers - Leila

Foxes - Lily

Hedgehogs - Kingdavid

Squirrels - Isabelle

⭐️ Year 1 ⭐️

Finches - Millie

Robins - Harvir

Sparrows - Leo

Wrens - Lily

⭐️ Year 2 ⭐

Eagles - Alfie

Falcons - Caiden

Kestrels - Nivi

Owls - Sophie

🐝 Year 1 🐝

Finches - Tehilla

Robins - Jack H

Sparrows - Lea

Wrens - Aadi

🐝 Year 2 🐝

Eagles - Aiden

Falcons - Ava

Kestrels - Liam

Owls - Jensen

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!

Heidrun (Year 1)

Heidrun has won her first trophy of top girl in the chess competition EJCOA qualifier U8 group, and she is qualified to join the EJCOA tournament in July.

Spring 2 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

Several of our neighbours have reported that parents are parking on their driveways. Please remember to be considerate to our local residents when dropping off and collecting your child.

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

Thursday 3rd April: Rocksteady Performances (9:30am)

Friday 4th April: Last day of term (2:05pm finish)

Saturday 5th - Monday 21st April: PTA Easter Trail

Monday 7th - Monday 21st April: Easter Holidays

Wednesday 30th April: EYFS Mill Farm visits our school

Monday 5th May: Bank holiday

Thursday 8th May: Year 1 trip to Hobbledown

Thursday 8th May: Outdoor Classroom Day

Thursday 8th May: VE Day

Friday 9th May: PTA Bingo Night

Thursday 5th June: Year 2 and 3 Disco Night

Friday 6th June: Reception and Year 1 Disco Night

Saturday 12th July: Summer Fair

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