Friday 26th January 2024
Dear Links Families,
It has been another busy week in school and as we walked around it was clear to see all the children enjoying their learning whether they were making a model, climbing the apparatus or reading a book. Our Year 6 children also had a fantastic time at the Chaucer Centre taking part in Merton Junior Citizenship. They worked alongside other institutions to get an insight into the workings of society and to develop life skills to prepare them for adulthood. The children and staff all enjoyed themselves.
Royal Albert Hall - Year 5 Performance
If you haven’t already done so, don’t forget to book your tickets at the Royal Albert Hall with Merton Music Foundation, for their epic ‘Music is for Life’ concert on Monday 11 March 2024. Our Year 5 children have been rehearsing for months for this amazing experience. Tickets are still available, please visit www.mmf.org.uk/rah2024/ if you wish to purchase tickets.
NSPCC Number Day Friday 2nd February 2024
We are delighted to be supporting the NSPCC by taking part in Number Day on Friday 2nd February 2024.
We are having a fun day of maths activities and we will be taking part in Dress up for Digits. Pupils are asked to wear an item of clothing with a number on it (football shirt, cap, netball shirt or even a onesie!). Or, get even more creative by dressing in a maths or numbers theme. If you do not have anything number themed at home, do not worry, you can wear anything patterned or with shapes on it. To help raise money for the NSPCC we are asking for donations. If you can, please send in a donation to support the NSPCC’s work. This can be given to the class teacher on the day.
All the money we raise at Links Primary School will make an enormous difference to children today and help the NSPCC be there for children tomorrow.
Playscheme
Just a reminder that there will be no playscheme this half term. Playscheme will run as usual in the Easter holidays. Additional information can be found on the school website via the Extended Services tab https://www.links.merton.sch.uk/Extended-Services-Home/.
Links Values Award
Our Links Values Award winners this week are;
- Nursery - Frederick for always showing kindness and respect to his friends and teachers and having brilliant manners.
- Rainbow - Giuseppe for superstar blending and reading this week.
- Sunshine - Marta for incredible improvement with your writing.
- 1EJ - Aalin for her resilience when writing about Traction Man.
- 1W- Dheajith for his progress in phonics and increasing participation in class.
- 2B - Merihan for her hard work and being respectful to her friends and adults around the school.
- 3B - Maram for always having a positive attitude towards her learning.
- 3P - Mahmoud for working hard in every lesson and having excellent focus.
- 4M - Jamie for sharing his great ideas and demonstrating such determination to improve his writing.
- 4T - Ayaan for showing kindness and being caring, making sure our new class member felt welcome.
- 5KG - Dheekshna for always taking pride in her work.
- 5M - Bashir for always demonstrating Links Values and working hard.
- 6G - Martha for wonderful dialogue and imagery in her writing.
- 6M - Oliver for showing the Links Value of Respect throughout all activities.
Well done for demonstrating our Links Values. We are very proud of you all!
House Points
This week’s house points results;
Green House - 4771
Yellow House - 4739
Red House - 4636
Blue House - 4537
Weekly Attendance
This week’s attendance figures for each class are;
- Rainbow - 95.7%
- Sunshine - 98.9%
- 1EJ - 97.7%
- 1W - 86.3%
- 2B - 91.5%
- 2T - 89.8%
- 3B - 98.3%
- 3P - 94.8%
- 4M - 95.8%
- 4T - 94.3%
- 5KG - 90%
- 5M - 95.5%
- 6G - 90%
- 6M - 88.8 %
Congratulations to Sunshine Class who achieved the highest attendance this week. Lincoln the Bear will be spending the next week in Reception, learning about ‘people who help us’.
This week’s 95% tickets go to both Rainbow and Sunshine class, and 1EJ, 3B, 4M and 5M. All classes with a weekly attendance of 95% or more will receive a raffle ticket.
With very best wishes,
Natalie, Vicki and the Links Team
