Links News

Friday 22nd November, 2024

Dear Links Families,

Despite not getting out and about this week, it has been another busy week in school with lots of learning taking place and lots of visitors too. The Heads of School were extremely proud to show off the school to our Merton Education Partners on Tuesday. Three advisors from Merton came in to speak to the Heads and have a tour of the school. They were very impressed with the way the school looks and the lovely calm but productive atmosphere they saw as they walked around the school. All the classes were busy and the children they spoke to were able to explain their learning confidently. PC Howler also visited Year 6 this afternoon and talked to them about the age of responsibility, different types of theft and when to call 999.

Parents’ evening

It was lovely to welcome you all into school to speak to teachers about your children. We always love talking to you about your child’s learning and what they are doing in school. Thank you for taking the time to come into school to meet with the teachers, if for some reason you could not make the meeting please speak to the class teacher to arrange a meeting that is convenient for you both.

Parent Workshop - Managing Emotions Using Zones of Regulation

This afternoon we held our first parent workshop for Managing Zones of Regulation. It was a very informative and interesting session. The feedback from this session was very positive. We will be holding more parent workshops within the year.

Book Fair

Next week, we will be hosting our first book fair of the term. This is always a great opportunity to buy a book for Christmas or half term reading. The book fair will be in the bottom floor hall, after school.

A parentmail went out this afternoon with more information.

Dates for your diary

Date	Event
Wednesday 4th December am	Year 2 to attend the Nativity at Deen City Farm (during school time)
Friday 6th December 2024	PTA Christmas Fair 3:30 Choir to sing at 4pm
Friday 13th December	EYFS Christmas Arts and Crafts (Nursery and reception parents - invitation only)
Monday 16th December	Year 1 Nativity assembly to parents (year 1 parents - invitation only) 2:15pm
Monday 16th December	4pm Performing Arts Show to parents
Tuesday 17th December	Rev. Belemo will be leading the assembly and retelling the Nativity. (within school time)
Tuesday 17th December -	Year 5 to visit the Christmas Show at Wimbledon Library (during school time)
Wednesday 18th December	Christmas Jumper Day - (Winter themed clothing welcome)
Wednesday 18th December	Christmas Lunch - All children can have a free lunch.
Thursday 19th December	Year 3 Christmas Panto (year 3 parents - invitation only) 2:15pm
Thursday 19 December	Nursery last day (at normal time)
Friday 20th December	Last day of school - Children leave at 2pm

Links Values Award

Links Value Winners - 22nd November 2024

This week’s Values Awards go to:

Nursery - Ella, for her maths skills- recognising Numicon and writing numerals 1-5.
Reception - Musa, for his great Maths subitising numbers.
1T - Areesh, for being resilient with his handwriting and phonics
1W - Araaf, for displaying both enthusiasm and resilience in his learning,
2KB - Sawaraben, for her friendly smile and positive attitude to her learning.
2EJ - Antoine - Loic, for a very imaginative and exciting story!
3B - Jason, for giving 100% commitment to our rehearsals.
3T - Celeste, for enthusiasm and commitment to rehearsal.
4M - Harlem, for his fabulous commitment to improving the quality of his writing.
4M- Mia, for her fabulous engagement in lessons, especially in maths.
4P - Nylah, for excellent effort with her creative writing.
5GP - Amir, for using his reasoning to explain fractions and common denominators to his friends.
5M - Shyal, for consistently demonstrating all Links Values.
6G - Jordan, for working hard and passing his Maths mock SATs test.
6P - Luca, for his consistent enthusiasm and positive attitude to all areas of school!

Our Links Value winners joined Mrs Anderson and Mrs Murray for Hot Chocolate Friday!

House Points

The house point totals for this week are….

Blue House - 2140

Red House - 2135

Yellow House - 2094

Green House - 2008

Congratulations to Blue House who are still in the lead!

Weekly Attendance

This week’s attendance figures for each class are:

Reception - 89.8%
1T - 90.3%
1W - 81%
2EJ - 91.4%
2KB - 91.2%
3B - 96.6%
3T - 95.7%
4M - 95.1%
4P - 92.6%
5GP - 98.9%
5M - 92.2%
6G - 86.4%
6P - 98.8%

Congratulations to 5GP who achieved the highest attendance this week.

Lincoln the Bear will be spending next week in Year 5, where they will be writing their own story of King Arthur. We will look forward to hearing their stories in next week’s assembly.

95% Attendance Raffle

This week’s tickets go to 3B, 3T, 4M, 5GP and 6P.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Links Team

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