Link News
Friday 20th September, 2024
Dear Links Families,
This week has been another busy but productive week with so much going on around school and the local community. Year 4 have started their swimming lessons and teachers have reported that so many of them have made progress already. Lincoln the Bear even went swimming this week with 4M! Year 6 have been out to the local library choosing books and finding out about what the library has to offer. Around school, some year 5 and 6 children have been helping with the decking area, planting some plants and tidying it up ready for autumn. If you have outdoor plants that we could add to our decking area, please drop them off there at morning drop off or home time.
School Council Applications
At Links we are proud of our fabulous School Council, who are an integral part of the Links Primary School community, working hard to ensure that the pupils' voices are always high on agenda. The school council meetings provide a forum for the children to voice their opinions and have their views taken into account. They have helped to make a variety of decisions about school life.
As it is the beginning of the year, the next round of elections will take place for the new class representatives, from years 1-6. You may have heard your child mention that they want to be their class representative. The children will do a speech next Wednesday to their classes, to try and persuade the other children to vote for them.
When all the speeches have been heard, each class will hold a secret ballot to decide who they want as their representative. This is run like an election with all the children being given ballot forms which they place their cross on and put in a box. Results to be announced on Friday, 27th September.
If you want to support your child you could perhaps listen to their speech at home, giving them the opportunity to practise.
Children have shared some of the qualities they feel are helpful to have .
- Good listener
- Organised
- Able to listen to children’s ideas and opinions and share them at meetings, even if it is not your opinion.
- Good role model to others
- Reliable
- Friendly and approachable
- Able to remember things
- Prepared to give up some of your own time
- Team player
- Keen to make a contribution to improve the school
- Good communicator
Good Luck to all those taking part.
MacMillan Cake Sale
Links Primary is at the heart of our community, and we would like to raise awareness for Macmillan Cancer Support, who support families affected by cancer. Therefore, we will be holding a non-uniform day on Friday 27th September, and asking children to bring in a cake donation, for us to sell at our Cake Sale.
Just a reminder, that we will be selling cakes at breaktime, instead of our Friday tuck shop. Children in our Early Years, as well as our older years will be able to buy a cake for £1, to enjoy at breaktime.
If you would like any further information, please do not hesitate to contact
Links Values Award
This week’s Values Awards go to:
- Nursery -Krithiv, for settling into Nursery nicely and for following new routines.
- Reception - Nina, for always demonstrating our Links values and for being a superstar!
- 1T - Dominic, for showing good listening on the carpet and in focus groups.
- 1W - Mariesha, for demonstrating both responsibility and respect in class.
- 2KB - Arlo, for a wonderful demonstration of Links Rules and for always engaging with his learning.
- 2EJ - Maham, for beautiful manners and for helping her peers.
- 3B - Kara, being a responsible and helpful member of our class.
- 3T - Cara, for being a reliable and responsible member of the class.
- 4M - Majjadin, for great listening, which led to great progress in swimming.
- 4P - Joseph, for his excellent effort in swimming and great start to the new school year.
- 5GP - Leah, for persevering in Maths and English and challenging herself to 'have a go.'
- 5M - Noor, for always following Links Rules.
- 6G - Mateusz, for showing improved maturity and responsibility.
- 6P - Zainool, for his determination in all areas of his learning.
Today, all of our Links Value winners joined Mrs Anderson and Mrs Murray for Hot Chocolate Friday! This is our new incentive to celebrate our Links Values winners.
House Points
The house points have reset and the competition is back on!
For all our new families, we have 4 houses, red, blue, green and yellow. We use house points for taking pride in their achievements, the sharing and recognition of good work, teamwork, positive attitude and positive behaviour.
The house point totals for this week are….
Blue House - 402
Yellow House - 364
Red House - 360
Green House - 355
Congratulations to Blue House who are this week’s winners!
Weekly Attendance
This week’s attendance figures for each class are:
- Reception - 95.7%
- 1T - 97.8%
- 1W - 92%
- 2KB - 86.1%
- 2EJ - 92.1%
- 3B - 97.7%
- 3T - 98.9%
- 4M - 95.7%
- 4P - 96.4%
- 5GP - 95.8%
- 5M - 97.2%
- 6G - 91.3%
- 6P - 94%
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 learning about the Volcanoes.
95% Attendance Raffle
This week’s tickets go to Reception, 1T, 3B, 3T, 4M, 4P, 5M and 5GP. 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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