Links News
Friday 28th March, 2025
Dear Links Families,
We had a jam packed assembly today to celebrate all the fabulous learning that has taken place this week for STEM week. So many children wanted to share what they had been doing in class. We saw spaghetti towers in year 3, marble runs from year 4, some intricate catapults in year 5 and some of the year 6 children spoke confidently about their egg drop challenge! Amazingly only 2 of the eggs cracked! Year 1 were also busy making cars and the year 2 children displayed some of the chairs they designed and made for the three bears to sit on together. The children told us how much they enjoyed the challenges and how they had to work together collaboratively, problem solve and be resilient when things didn’t go quite to plan!
A big thank you to the PTA for organising the table-top sale on Sunday. The weather remained dry so it was good to see the crowds looking for their bargains. Not only did stallholders make a profit but the event raised £600 for the school! Thank you to everyone who came along to support the event.
Finally, Eid Mubarak to all our families who may be marking the end of Ramadan with the special festival Eid-al-Fitr this week.
End of Term Arrangements
Just a reminder that school will be closing for the Easter Holidays on Friday 4th April at 2:00pm. There will be no after school club on this day. Links Nursery will close at the usual time on Thursday 3rd April. School will reopen for all children on Tuesday 22nd April 2025.
MUFTI Day and Easter Egg Tombola
Don’t forget that next Friday 4th April, will be a non-uniform day. Instead of a money donation, we are asking for donations of Easter eggs and Easter chocolates, as the PTA will be holding an Easter Egg Tombola, after school on Friday 4th April at 2:00pm.
Links Values Award
Links Value Winners 28th March 2025
This week’s Values Awards go to:
- Nursery - Yashri, for listening and understanding instructions and showing kindness to all her friends and teachers!
- Reception - Franio, for great work, using your Phonics knowledge to read longer words.
- 1T - Issa, for using resources independently to help support his writing.
- 1W - Marta, for building confidence to share her ideas during class discussions.
- 2KB - Rayah, for demonstrating excellent teamwork by collaborating with her team members, to create a new chair for the three bears.
- 2EJ - Amarah, for being a super role model and a fantastic school council rep.
- 3B - Max, for excellent teamwork in our STEM week challenge.
- 3T - Wiktor, for trying really hard to focus when learning a new concept in maths. Fractions!
- 4M - Josephina, for her positive attitude and great teamwork skills, during marble run building.
- 4P - Filip, for his tremendous effort in Maths during our fractions unit.
- 5GP - Aaron, for excellent design-thinking, when creating a catapult.
- 5M - Athis, for demonstrating exceptional responsibility and resilience during STEM Week.
- 6G - Alif, for making excellent progress in reading.
- 6P - Gauresh, for great informative writing and collaboration work, in English and STEM activities 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….
Blue House - 7546
Red House - 7540
Yellow House - 7536
Green House - 6980
Congratulations to Blue House who are this week’s winners!
Next week, the winning house will receive an extra long playtime, for being the half term winners.
Weekly Attendance
This week’s attendance figures for each class are:
- Reception - 86.36%
- 1T - 97.7%
- 1W - 88.7%
- 2EJ - 84.2%
- 2KB - 98.4%
- 3B - 96.5%
- 3T - 97.7%
- 4M - 89.8%
- 4P - 93.9%
- 5GP - 94.6%
- 5M - 95.6%
- 6G - 88.1%
- 6P - 94.6%
Congratulations to 2KB who achieved the highest attendance this week. Next week, Lincoln the Bear will be learning in Year 2KB and will be joining them on their theatre trip this afternoon to see the Pea and the Princess.
95% Attendance Raffle
This week’s winning tickets go to 1T, 2EJ, 2KB, 3B, 3T, and 5M.
Next week, we will be drawing the winning ticket. The winning class will receive a mystery treat!
Links in Action
Our First Table top sale was a super success, well done Link PTA
This week, the willow canopy arrived in the Links garden.
Thank you sprout up team for your green fingers!
Reception are growing beanstalks
Year 1 have been busy planting seeds and making vehicles in stem week.
In stem week, Year 5 have been building catapults
Year 6’s egg drop challenge.
How would you keep an egg safe, when dropped at a height?
Year 2 have build new chairs for the Three bears
Year 3 have been building towers using marshmallows and spaghetti
Reception have been busy enjoying their puppet show, tennis lesson and magic bean sorting activity.
Rosa and Nylah, are part of Stagecoach drama club. Today they showed us their dance from hercules. They were great!
Other Info
This year, our wonderful, unique borough turns 60 years old.
To honour this milestone and shine a light on our brilliant communities, we’re curating ‘We Are Merton at 60’ - a five-week programme of events, culture and celebration between April 1 and early May.
Check out Merton’s website for more information
NEMCA NEWS
Free - Nemca’s Fun Day on 7 April
10-11 Junior Park Run joins the Fun Day. See attached poster.
12-3pm Gardening/Planting day with refreshments. No gardening experience needed. See poster. – See attached poster.
NEW: 24th April 10-11.30 Singing Mammas starts, no singing experience needed, children welcome. See attached poster.
Coming soon in April : Family Yoga on Wednesday afternoons.
STAR GAZING FAMILY EVENING TO MARK NATIONAL SPACE DAY
Chair based exercise on Thursday afternoons.
Evening Zumba
Contact: community@nemca.org.uk to register interest.
Message from Figges Marsh Friends Group
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 provide 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 would do just one session per month on average and always work alongside at least one other volunteer. If you would like to become one of the volunteers please contact: lauracollins@gmail.com;
