Links News

Friday 28th February, 2025

Dear Links Families,

It has been a very busy first week back. We started the week with our year six classes going to Canons House, where they saw our art submissions for the Tri-School Art Exhibition and also took the opportunity to sketch in the garden.

This week, the children in nursery, reception, and year one took part in their first tennis lesson coached by AELTC (Wimbledon Tennis). They will continue with these lessons every Thursday morning until the end of the term. On Tuesday we welcomed Andrea and Louise from Wimbledon Tennis who held an assembly for the children.

Yesterday we welcomed our governors into school for our annual Governors Day. During the day they got to see lots of learning and were really impressed with the children's behaviour for learning and the calm and attractive learning environment.

Today we welcomed poet Neal Zetter to Links, where he held a whole school assembly followed by individual class reading sessions.

Tłusty Czwartek

Thank you to all those who bought some very yummy doughnuts at yesterday Fat Thursday Doughnut Sale. The PTA raised £215.85 !

Book Fair

Book fair is back! Every day next week - Bottom Hall - 3pm to 3.30pm

School Photo Day

We are very excited to have Vancols, the school photographers back in school on Tuesday and Wednesday, to take individual and class photos. Please make sure that your child is wearing the correct uniform on this day. If your child has PE on Tuesday and Wednesday, they should wear their school uniform and bring a pair of trainers with them to change into.

After their photo shoot, your child will bring home a proof card with a QR code. You can access your child's photo by scanning the code on the card and copies of the photo will be available to be ordered online only.

World Book Day

We will be celebrating World Book Day at Links on Thursday 6th March 2025! We will have a week full of fun reading activities and promoting a pleasure for reading. We will have TWO competitions for everyone to join in with - Reading in Unusual Places and writing a Character Poem! Deadline is Wednesday 5th March.

Children are welcome to dress up as their favourite book character on Thursday 6th March - please do not feel the need to buy any new costumes, homemade ones are best!

Links Values Award

Links Value Winners 28th February 2025

This week’s Values Awards go to:

Nursery - Athvika, for writing her name independently.
Reception - Mohamed, for being a wonderful role model and always demonstrating the Links Values.
1T - Athaliah, for being an excellent role model.
1W - Ilyaas, for a fantastic start to the new half-term.
2KB - Ayman, for his engagement and enthusiasm in our geography lesson this week.
2EJ - Siham, for wonderful expressions, when reading a poem.
3B - Yeray, for trying hard to improve his behaviour.
3T - Aiden, for his valuable contributions during class discussions.
4M - Ayesha, for having a resilient and positive attitude towards her learning.
4P - Hasan, for tremendous effort in English, during our poetry writing.
5GP - Elsa, for continually working hard to improve her writing.
5M - Shivi, for always being curious, asking great questions and showing a love for learning.
6G - Maurane, for showing resilience, improving his behaviour for learning and for producing excellent work in English.
6P - Alex, for having a positive attitude towards his learning this week.

Our Links Value winners joined Mrs Anderson and Mrs Murray for

Hot Chocolate Friday!

House Points

The house point totals for this week are….

Yellow House - 5803

Blue House - 5401

Red House - 5398

Green House - 5157

Congratulations to Yellow House who are this week’s winners!

Weekly Attendance

This week’s attendance figures for each class are:

Reception - 90.2%
1T - 88.1%
1W - 86.9%
2EJ - 93.9%
2KB - 93.8%
3B - 95.5%
3T - 92.3%
4M - 92%
4P - 90.1%
5GP - 83.3%
5M - 87.8%
6G - 85.2%
6P - 95%

Congratulations to 3B who achieved the highest attendance, for the second week running. Lincoln the Bear joined 3B today with Neal Zetter and is excited for next week’s World Book Day.

95% Attendance Raffle

This week’s winning tickets go to 3B and 6P.