CCI Newsletter 4th April 2025

Cheam Common Infants' Academy

Weekly Newsletter

Friday 4th April 2025

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

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

Happy Easter!

We would like to welcome all of our children, staff and families a Happy Easter. We hope you have a restful and safe break, and look forward to seeing you on Tuesday 22nd April.

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.

Food vouchers in Summer Holidays

The Council will be supporting families with food vouchers for two weeks of the summer holidays this year. This is the same offer that was made in 2024. Previous to that, vouchers were provided to families for the whole of the summer holiday period (6 weeks) but the Council is unable to offer that this year based on the value of the Household Support Grant provided by the Government (which has reduced this year) and the other needs that this grant meets.

Whilst the Council has prioritised the use of the grant for families with children, there are many other households in the Borough that also need support - including low income, working age households with no children, those that are in significant financial hardship or those households that need support paying their council tax.

Any family that is struggling with their finances can contact Together for Sutton on 020 8254 2616 or visit https://togetherforsutton.org.uk/ for free and confidential advice and support. Families can also access support through the Holiday Activities and Food programme - https://suttoninformationhub.org.uk/pages/haf.

Summer 1 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

Techy Tots

We host two Techy Tots clubs at Cheam Common Infants' Academy, on Monday and Fridays afternoons (3:15-4:15pm).

If you are interested in signing your child up, you can view more information here.

Cheam Common Summer 25.docx.pdf

School lunches

Here are the lunch options for next week.

You can see Summer 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 enjoying the warm weather and exploring different water equipment!

Reception have been very busy this week! We learnt about Doctors as part of our topic People Who Help Us. We practised number bonds to 5, decorated Easter eggs and worked in teams to colour a picture as part of our computing lesson!

Year 1

What a lovely week Year One has had, a little bit of sunshine makes learning extra fun :) The children have really enjoyed measuring in Maths and they are very confident in using a ruler and saying ‘The pencil is 15 cm long’.

They have amazed us this week with their wonderful writing of a setting description of the African Savannah and describing the watering hole. The children remembered to use adjectives to describe the animals e.g The snappy crocodile is hiding in the cold water.

The children have recapped all their wider curriculum learning and completed assessments to see what they have learnt this term. It was a fun day on Friday completing lots of lovely Easter activities. Have a wonderful Easter!

Year 2

This week Year 2 was visited by the Sutton Schools Work who delivered a fantastic Easter CSI workshop. The children explored the clues left at the crime scene, matched finger prints to suspects and decoded secret messages in an effort to solve the mystery of the missing body!

In writing this week the focus has been ‘writing to inform’. The children completed their non chronological reports all about Emperor Penguins. They ensured that these were written in an engaging and informative manner including scientific language and full of interesting facts. The reports were illustrated with realistic sketches of penguins.

In Maths the children were identifying and naming 3D shapes. They practised guessing which shape was hiding in a feely bag by analysing the features such as the number of faces, edges and vertices and presence or absence of curved surfaces.

In science this week we explored food chains and learnt how energy passes from the Sun to producers and primary and secondary consumers. The children enjoyed ordering food chains practically and using Seesaw.

Well done Year 2 for all of your hard work this term. We are so proud of all of your amazing achievements. Have a wonderful holiday!

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.

Ray (Year 2)

Happy birthday! Thank you for your book donation.

Evie (Reception)

Happy birthday! Thank you for your book donation.

Hubert (Reception)

Happy birthday! Thank you for your book donation.

Harvey (Reception)

Happy birthday! Thank you for your book donation.

School Achievements

⭐️ Stars of the Week ⭐️

🐝 Weekly 3 Bees Certificate 🐝

⭐️ Nursery ⭐️

Ducklings - Evie

Cygnets (full time) - Eve

Cygnets (part time) - Rayan

⭐️ Reception ⭐

Badgers - Vish

Foxes - Toby

Hedgehogs - Izzy

Squirrels - Ellie

🐝 Nursery 🐝

Ducklings - Felix

Cygnets (full time) - Gunav

Cygnets (part time) - Eann

🐝 Reception 🐝

Badgers - Clara

Foxes - Haadi

Hedgehogs - Zayd

Squirrels - Lyra

⭐️ Year 1 ⭐️

Finches - Leia

Robins - Clay

Sparrows - Sofia

Wrens - Joshua

⭐️ Year 2 ⭐

Eagles - Advaith

Falcons - Reeve

Kestrels - Shanzay

Owls - Isha

🐝 Year 1 🐝

Finches - Ilyas

Robins - Aliona

Sparrows - Alex

Wrens - Marnie

🐝 Year 2 🐝

Eagles - Shirley

Falcons - Emmanuel

Kestrels - Neeharika

Owls - Reya

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!

Isabella and Sophie (Year 1)

Isabella got 3rd place at the Epsom Gymnastics club championship alongside Sophie who got 1st place. Well done, girls!

Darsh and Druv (Year 1)

Both Darsh and Druv have achieved thier key stage 2 certificate and 10 metres certificate for swimming! What an amazing achievement, well done boys!

Summer 1 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

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

Monday 7th - Monday 21st April: Easter Holidays

Monday 21st April: Bank holiday

Tuesday 22nd April: First day of Summer Term

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