Links News
Friday 18th October, 2024 
Dear Links Families,
This week at Links, it has been very busy with educational visits. Reception went on their first Links trip to Mitcham Library, as did 1T, 1W and 2EJ. Class 5GP attended the Launch Car event at Reeds Independent School in Cobham. The winning team was Sarah and Joshua, who will be attending the final alongside Kacper and Charlie. Years 5 and 6 took part in a Rivers Restoration Educational Workshop, where they learnt about the creepy crawlies living in the River Wandle.
We would also like to give a ‘Links Shout Out’ to Christian in 3B, who took part in a 2km fun run as part of the Royal Parks Half Marathon event. Christian ran this to support Great Ormond Street Hospital.
We would also like to give a ‘Links Shout Out’ to Anniah in 6P, Who has starred in a showreel and simple film about a child who has broken a window with a cricket ball. It was shot in a professional studio for a local director and filmmaker for an advert for his ongoing work.
Click on this link to see her in action https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UDW43JKM5sWGa8X_Pfqv84n7sU4Z5B2n/view?usp=sharing
Black History Month
Our Year 5 children have been learning about Sarah Forbes Bonetta, who was Queen Victoria’s Goddaughter. The children enjoyed learning about her, and the link to the Victorian era, which they have been learning about this half term, in History. If you would like to know about who Sarah Forbes Bonetta is, click on the link. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X-UBPC2filK2z7YJApvQXnVggIcV89V3/view?usp=sharing
Our Year 4 children have been reading The Kindest Red, which is the sequel to The Proudest Blue by Olympic medalist and social justice activist Ibtihaj Muhammad. Ibtihaj Muhammad is an American former sabre fencer, writer, entrepreneur and activist. She is best known for being the first woman to wear hijab while competing for the United States in the Olympic Games,[1] as well as for winning a team bronze medal in the Olympics.
If you would like to share these stories at home, click on the links.
The Proudest Blue - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfmc_llybcU
The Kindest Red - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4AUYwgVOSE
Links Values Award
This week’s Values Awards go to:
- Nursery -Willow, for good listening, for following Nursery routines and for showing good manners.
- Reception - Alex, for showing perseverance with your writing, this week.
- 1T - Jaxson, for always being so kind and helpful.
- 1W - Muqeet, for demonstrating responsibility and effort in his writing this week.
- 2KB - Tomek, for his focus and determination during handwriting activities.
- 2EJ - Safiya, for her exemplary behaviour on our trip to the library.
- 3B - Zohaib, for a positive attitude towards his learning.
- 3T - Sulaiman, for working really hard to improve his handwriting.
- 4M - Jack, for his diligent attitude when designing and building his successful Shaduf.
- 4P - Urszula, for showing kindness by helping others to make their shadufs in DT.
- 5GP - Aswiga, for planning an excellent report on Sarah Forbes Bonetta for Black History Month.
- 5M - Devaun, for being helpful and resilient helping a classmate during our DT lesson.
- 6G - Ali, for his fantastic ideas and insight in reading comprehension.
- 6P - Ariana, for her brilliant attitude in Maths, Writing and all lessons this week.
House Points
The house point totals for this week are….
Blue House - 1328
Red House - 1274
Green House - 1254
Yellow House - 1186
Congratulations to Blue House who are this week’s winners!
Weekly Attendance
This week’s attendance figures for each class are:
- Reception - 91.5%
- 1T - 94.6%
- 1W - 94.7%
- 2KB - 88.2%
- 2EJ - 94.7%
- 3B - 93.2%
- 3T - 100%
- 4M - 92.7%
- 4P - 98.1%
- 5GP - 97.3%
- 5M - 98.4%
- 6G - 85.9%
- 6P - 96.3%
Congratulations to 3T who all achieved the highest attendance this week.
Lincoln the Bear will be spending next week in Year 3, where he will be joining them on their exciting adventure to the Science Museum, to support their Science topic ‘Forces’.
95% Attendance Raffle
This week’s tickets go to 1W, 3T, 4P, 5M, 5GP and 6P. Next Thursday, 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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