Friday 11th October, 2024
Dear Links Families,
It has been an action-packed week at Links. Some of our Year 3, 4, 5 & 6 pupils attended the borough cross-country running events with Coach Cardisha, Mrs Wieszczek and Miss Bielecka. Today some of our pupils represented Links at the borough’s Tag Rugby event.
Class 5M attended Reeds Independent School in Cobham Surrey, where they took part in this year’s Launch Car event. Every pupil in 5M worked in teams to build a model car and launch it. Kacper and Charlie’s car travelled the furthest and they will return to Reeds for the final, alongside the winning team from 5GP, next week.
On Monday Year 2 visited Mitcham Lane Baptist Church to support their learning about a church building. This coincided with our harvest celebrations and the vicar was able to show the children their foodbank and the importance of supporting our community.
This week, we also continued with our annual library visits to Mitcham Library. The children in 2KB and Year 3 enjoyed visiting the library, reading a range of books in the igloo snug and listening to a story read by the librarian.
We would also like to give a special shout out to Mali in 4M, who had her poem ‘I Have a Dream’ published in the ‘Once Upon a Time - Words of Whimsy’ book.
Black History Month 
This month is a great opportunity to celebrate the life and contributions of the black community and while we recognise this through October as part of Black History Month, we also reflect and other cultures through our curriculum during the rest of the year.
Our Year 6 children have been learning about the life of Lilian Badar, who was the RAF’s first black female pilot. The children in Year 3 have been learning about Harriet Tubman, an American abolitionist who helped lots of enslaved people escape by the underground Railroad and Rosa Parks who invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
If you would like to know more about their importance in our history, click on their names to be directed to the BBC Teacher website.
Links Values Award
This week’s Values Awards go to:
- Nursery - Moiz, for working hard to follow Nursery routines.
- Reception - Jahzara, for engaging in all her learning and for being a caring and happy member of the class.
- 1T - Hamza, for growing in confidence during class input and in focus groups.
- 1W - Dunya, for showing enthusiasm and responsibility throughout her learning.
- 2KB - Maria, for showing empathy and compassion towards her peers.
- 2EJ - Besiana, for having a kind and responsible attitude.
- 3B - Luka, for an excellent attitude towards his learning, especially his times tables!
- 3T - Lithiya, for being a resilient learner in maths.
- 4M - Faryal, for her fantastic work ethic, what a fantastic role model !
- 4P - Anais, for always demonstrating the Links Values and for taking pride in her work.
- 5GP - Zara, for using her history knowledge to improve her non-chronological report on Victorian workhouses.
- 5M - Diana, for your exceptional behaviour and positive attitude displayed during our launch car trip.
- 6G - Max, for his focus and dedication to his learning.
- 6P - Hashim, for his great dedication and responsibility towards his learning.
Our Links Value winners joined Mrs Anderson and Mrs Murray for Hot Chocolate Friday!
House Points
The house point totals for this week are….
Red House - 1036
Blue House - 976
Yellow House - 934
Green House - 905
Congratulations to Red House who are this week’s winners!
Weekly Attendance
This week’s attendance figures for each class are:
- Reception - 90.9%
- 1T - 92.4%
- 1W - 95.7%
- 2KB - 98.4%
- 2EJ - 97.4%
- 3B - 94.3%
- 3T - 94.6%
- 4M - 99.1%
- 4P - 100%
- 5GP - 98.9%
- 5M - 98.5%
- 6G - 95.7%
- 6P - 98.8%
Congratulations to 4P who all achieved the highest attendance this week.
Lincoln the Bear will be spending next week in Year 4, where he will be learning about the water cycle in Science.
95% Attendance Raffle
This week’s tickets go to 1W, 2EJ, 3T, 4M, 4P, 5M, 5GP, 6G and 6P. At the end of the term, we will draw the winning ticket and that class will win a special treat.
Have a lovely weekend
The Links Team
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