Links News

Friday 21st March, 2025

Dear Links Families,

We have thoroughly enjoyed the sunshine this week at Links and the Links Garden is blooming, thanks to our little team of green-fingered gardeners. This week, our year 4 pupils attended a Sublime Science and Art workshop at Raynes Park Secondary School. Some pupils made slime, some made rockets and they all made pinch pottery. On Thursday, the Links choir performed at Singfest. Where they performed to and with other schools in the borough. In assembly today, we got to see the choir in action and they were amazing! Today, Coach Cardisha took some of our year 3 and 4 pupils to a Tag Rugby competition, they demonstrated great sportsmanship.

We are extremely proud of how our pupils represent Links when learning outside of the school, they consistently demonstrate our three rules; ready, respectful and safe.

The Easter holidays are nearly here. The last day of school will be Friday 4th April at 2pm. School will reopen for the summer term on Tuesday 22nd April.

Have a lovely weekend and hoping to see you all at our first ever table-top sale this Sunday 10am -12pm.

Links Values Award

Links Value Winners 21st March 2025

This week’s Values Awards go to:

Nursery - Patrycja, for independently painting a chick using cotton wool and her fingers.
Reception - Scarlett, for consistently showing kindness to your peers and always demonstrating excellent manners.
1T - Jaxson, for always being a kind, caring and thoughtful member of 1T.
1W - Mohra, for fantastic mapping skills in Geography this week!
2KB - Zofia, for her outstanding efforts in all areas of the curriculum.
2EJ - Maham, for being a kind, positive and enthusiastic member of the class.
3B - Beatrix, for her interesting and valuable contributions to class discussions.
3T - Junaid, for writing a descriptive diary entry using powerful vocabulary.
4M - Faryal, for her consistently positive attitude to learning and her kindness to others.
4P - Kaashwini, for showing excellent behaviour during our school trip and for representing our school well.
5GP - Hyrije, for being resilient in swimming and making excellent progress.
5M - Aliza, or showing determination, resilience and a positive attitude during this week's swimming lessons.
6G - Umm-E, for working hard in boosters and for applying what she has learnt.
6P - Areej, for her excellent attitude towards her 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 - 7227

Blue House - 7224

Yellow House - 7197

Green House - 6758

Congratulations to Red House who have taken the lead and are this week’s winners!

Weekly Attendance

This week’s attendance figures for each class are:

Reception - 88.6%
1T - 98.3%
1W - 90.5%
2EJ - 97.4%
2KB - 100%
3B - 100%
3T - 96.7%
4M - 97.7%
4P - 95.8%
5GP - 96.2%
5M - 98.5%
6G - 95.4%
6P - 97%

Congratulations to 2KB and 3B who both achieved the highest attendance for 100%, this week. Next week, Lincoln the Bear will be learning in Year 2 and Year 3, where he will be taking part in STEM week and will be joining 3B on their trip to the Polka Theatre.

95% Attendance Raffle

This week’s winning tickets go to 1T, 2EJ, 2KB, 3B, 3T, 4M, 4P, 5GP, 5M, 6G and 6P.

Links in Action

Links Choir at Singfest, followed by a picnic in the garden

Year 5 have been learning about astronaut Tim Peake. In English, they used the drama technique of hot seating to interview him (in role).

Year 4 at making slime, rockets and pinch pottery at Raynes Park Secondary School.

Lincoln has had a great time learning with 2EJ this week. He joined them in their music and art lessons, as well as joining the 2EJ rep at the school council meeting.

Learning in reception.

Thank you to the PTA for our new Teepee!!

This week , Nursery and Reception started their Supervised toothbrushing. They will brush their teeth every day at school.

Here is the link to the Government website for more information

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/supervised-toothbrushing-for-children-to-prevent-tooth-decay

Other Info

Park Play

Park Play is an organisation working at various sites around Merton (and around the UK) to put on free weekly play in the park for kids. https://park-play.com/

They would love to bring Park Play to Figges Marsh so the kids in the area can enjoy some games and fun in the outdoors! In order to do this, we need to find some volunteers to help run the sessions.

Park Play provides training, equipment, and ongoing support to volunteers, and they have loads of games and activities to choose from each week, so there's no pressure on volunteers to come up with games!

We're looking to recruit at least eight volunteers in total so that volunteers at Figges Marsh would do just one session per month on average and always work alongside at least one other volunteer.

If you're like to learn more, please contact laura.collins@gmail.com (The Friends of Figges Marsh, working with Park Play)