Links News

Saturday 12th July, 2025

Dear Links Families,

It was wonderful to see so many of you at our summer fair yesterday. Thank you to all those who helped at a stall and gave their time to make it successful. Thank you, families, for spending your tokens and supporting us. Big THANK YOU to our awesome PTA for putting on a great summer fair.

Shout out to all of the children who attended the Whizz Dance after school club this term. Yesterday in assembly, they performed their dance routines, which they had learnt. We are looking forward to seeing what other routines they will learn in the Autumn term. Another shout out goes to our amazing Key Stage 2 Scatterball team. On Monday, they competed against other Merton schools at Harris Morden and won the REFSECT award. We are so proud of you all. We also want to praise Lyla for achieving her 200m swimming award and Juno for receiving so many medals in Gymnastics.

Next week, we will be welcoming some students and teachers from Hong Kong. They will be visiting us from Monday until Thursday and are excited to see a UK school in action. All lessons will continue as usual to give them a taste of learning at Links.

Next week is our last week of school! Yesterday, the children got to spend time in their new classrooms with their new teacher; there were lots of smiles and excitement. Following on from this, we will be hosting our annual Meet the Teacher event. On Tuesday, after school, parents of children moving to year groups 1- 6 will have the opportunity to meet your child’s new teacher. During this meeting, you will receive information on what they will be learning, when their PE days are and other useful information. The teachers will be holding two sessions. The first at 3:30pm and then again at 4:00pm. All presentations will be available on the school website after the meeting, if you are unable to attend.

Whole School Picnic

Our last day of school for children in Reception to Year 6 will be on Friday 18th July at 2pm. There will be no after school club on Friday.

For lunch on Friday, the whole school will be having a picnic in the playground, together. Our lovely team at Caterlink will be providing the children with a picnic lunch. As we will all be sitting outside (weather permitting), we would like your child to bring in a picnic blanket (if you have one) for them and their friends to sit on.

Amber Alert

We have been issued with our third amber alert, which is expected to end on 14th July at 9am.

Please keep your families safe by following the advice of the UKHSA.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/first-yellow-heat-health-alert-of-2025-issued-for-4-regions

Please remember the following for Monday, while we are experiencing the hot weather

Your child must come to school with a full water bottle.
Bring a sun hat (don’t forget to write their name on it).
Apply sun cream on your child before they come to school.
If children are wearing their school uniform, we will encourage them to not wear their jumpers, cardigans or ties.
Please do not overlay your child with vests or T-shirts under shirts.

Links Values Award

Links Value Winners 11th July 2025

This week’s Values Awards go to:

Nursery - Kayan, for trying new activities and constantly challenging herself!

Reception - Zeyd, for writing his name independently and joining some carpet session with his peers.

1T - Lukas, for a positive approach towards his writing this week.

1W - Saraa, for OUTSTANDING work in Phonics and Writing this week - keep it up Saraa!

2KB - Samuel, for showing incredible resilience and a wonderfully curious mind during our school trip.

2EJ - Maham, for an excellent explanation of what plants need to grow healthily.

3B - Nacimo, for working hard to design a dragon for our English topic

3T - Zak, for having a positive attitude during maths lessons.

4M - Lyla, for showing maturity, empathy and kindness to others.

4P - Erica, for consistently demonstrating all of the Links Values.

5GP - Aaron, for his enthusiasm and leadership skills during the music performance.

5M - Devaun, for working hard on improving his vocabulary and sentence structures.

6G - Maksym, for his resilience in all areas of learning this year.

6P - Edward, for all his hard work behind the scenes for our show

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 - 12745

Yellow House - 12633

Blue House - 12462

Green House - 12150

Congratulations to Red House, who have retained the lead this week.

Weekly Attendance

This week’s attendance figures for each class are:

Reception - 95.5%
1T - 96%
1W - 96.6%
2EJ - 95.5%
2KB - 98%
3B - 94.6%
3T - 100%
4M - 95.2%
4P - 91.2%
5GP - 95.7%
5M - 95.6%
6G - 92.6%
6P - 92.2%

Congratulations to 3T, who achieved the highest attendance this week. Lincoln the Bear cannot wait to learn about angles and write a non-chronological report on dragons, in year 3.

95% Attendance Raffle

This week’s winning tickets go to Reception, 1T, 1W, 2EJ, 2KB, 3T, 4M, 4P, 5M and 5GP.

Summer Events Calendar 2025

Date	Event
July
Mon 14 July	Early Years Sing song 09:00 (Nursery and reception parents only)
Mon 14 July	Performing Arts Club Show 16:15 (Performing Arts Club parents only)
Tues 15 July	Meet the teacher presentations for parents whose children will be in Yr 1 - 6 in September 2025. 15:30 and 16:00
Fri 18 July	Links Big Picnic in the playground 12:00 - 13:00 (Children only) Bring a picnic blanket
Fri 18 July	Leavers Assembly 13:15 - 13:45 (Year 6 parents only)
Fri 18 July	School Finishes 2 pm (No After School Club)
Wednesday 3rd September	School reopens