Links News

Friday 17th May 2024

Dear Links Families,

It has been a whirlwind of a week here at Links. Reception has been learning how to recycle with the superhero Michael Recycle. Year 1 went on an educational visit to Battersea Park Zoo. Year 2 went to Furzedown Rec during Science to look for flora and fauna and then create nature sculptures, based on artist Andy Goldworthy’s style. Year 3 embraced the drizzle and had a great adventure at London Zoo. Year 4 have been artists and have been creating camouflage drawings inspired by Henri Rousseau’s Surprised! Year 5 has been debating for and against deforestation. They have been very articulate in sharing their views on both arguments.

And last but not least, our wonderful Year 6 pupils, who sat their SAT exams this week. You showed great maturity and resilience. Well done.

We would like to give a shout-out to all the staff who supported the Year 6 breakfasts this week. The children enjoyed coming together first thing to get ready for the challenging day ahead. Some even asked if it would be a regular thing! Unfortunately not, but we do have an amazing breakfast club available, run by Raphel and his team. You can book your place on the school website, using the booking form under extended services.

Just a reminder that school will close for the May half term next Friday, the 24th May at the usual time. The school will reopen to all children on Tuesday 4th June 2024, as normal.

Sports Day

We are pleased to announce that we will be holding our annual school sports day event for years 1-6 on Thursday, June 13th at Tooting Bec Running Track. This event will only be for the morning and parents are welcome to come and spectate. You will receive more information next week.

Reception and Nursery will have their own sports day at school. The early years team will be sending out more information next week.

PTA

The PTA would like to express their thanks for supporting last week’s fundraising events. All together they raised £213! Here’s a reminder of the PTA events coming up this term…

It's DISCO time!

Tickets are on sale via our donation page on ParentPay for the school discos (write 'Disco' in the reference box and don't forget to tick Gift Aid) Tickets cost £3 per child - this includes a snack and a drink.

Friday 14th June 5:30-6:30 - Reception/Year 1/Year 2 Disco (If your child is in Reception an adult must stay with their child).
Friday 21st June 5:30-6:30 - Year 3/ Year 4/ Year 5/ Year 6 Disco
Links Summer Social - Friday 5th July 6:00-8:00pm

Please email ptalinksprimary@gmail.com if you are able to help at this event.

Links Values Award

This week’s Values Awards go to:

Nursery - Asempa for always being kind and for role modelling his beautiful manners.
Rainbow Class - Karnish for lovely listening to adults.
Sunshine Class - Andrii for always being a kind friend.
1EJ - Zofia for putting her hand up to share ideas in all lessons this week.
1W - Denys for always showing kindness to all of his friends in 1W.
2B- Alex for using adjectives in his writing.
2T - Max for demonstrating resilience in his writing.
3B - The whole of 3B for being shining stars on our trip by showing the Links values!
3P - The whole of 3P for their exemplary behaviour and showing the Links Values on our trip
4M - Jamie for his phenomenal work ethic, when writing about the Dreamgiver.
4M - Enzo for being so thoughtful and kind to others.
4T - Zara for being so joyous and following all the Links Values.
5M - Julia for always being kind to others.
5KG - Emilia-Grace for persevering with her English and producing a lovely start to her story.
6G & 6M - The whole year 6 for showing great resilience and maturity while completing this week's SATs exams.

Year 6 - Links Value Award Winners

3B and 3P Links Value Award Winners

Well done for demonstrating our Links Values. We are very proud of you all!

House Points

Yellow House is still in the lead. But, with only one week to go, who will win the extra long playtime?

The house point totals for this week are….

Yellow House - 8068

Green House - 8715

Blue House - 7665

Red House - 7662

Weekly Attendance

This week’s attendance figures for each class are:

Rainbow - 85.4%
Sunshine - 84.4%
1EJ - 93.2%
1W - 92.5%
2B - 97.8%
2T - 96.7%
3B - 96.6%
3P - 98.1%
4M - 97.9%
4T - 98.7%
5KG - 88.5%
5M - 95.7%
6G - 100%
6M - 100 %

Congratulations to 6G and 6M, who achieved the highest attendance this week with an amazing 100%.

Lincoln the Bear will be spending next week in year 6, where he will be joining them on their trip to The Imperial War Museum! This week’s 95% tickets were read out in assembly by King in Sunshine class. He did a super job and we are very proud of him! This week’s winning tickets go to 2B, 2T, 3B, 3P, 4T, 4M, 5M, 6G and 6M. Next Friday, we will draw the winning ticket for the 95% attendance prize.

Have a lovely weekend,

Natalie, Vicki and the Links Team