Links News

Friday 2nd May, 2025

 

Dear Links Families,

 

While the sun has been shining, we have been busy learning both inside and outside of school.  Today our team of Year 5 designers and engineers went to Reeds Independent School to take part in the Launch Car final.  Prior to this, they had been busy in school designing their vehicle for the challenge ready to compete against other schools. They came second in the competition today and we are very proud of them.

Another team of children from year 3 and 4 represented the school at the All Stars Cricket Development Competition at AELTC Community Tennis Centre.  They enjoyed the sunshine and had a good time playing cricket against other teams.

Walking around the school this week has been fun!  Jungle explorers from year 1 have been looking for animals in their role play area and working with Kimba as part of our Oracy project. Year 6 have been working hard with their final preparations for the upcoming SATs and year 4 have been learning about decimals and have been representing decimals on place value charts. We also got to listen to some amazing writing from year 2 and year 3 children in assembly today.  We were blown away by their use of sophisticated language, punctuation and handwriting. It really is a treat going around the school and seeing all the wonderful learning that is taking place.

Finally, please remember we have a long weekend ahead of us.  It is a bank holiday on Monday so school will be closed but we will look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday.  Let’s hope the sun stays out!

 

PTA Disco 

 

Links Values Award

Links Value Winners 2nd May 2025

This week’s Values Awards go to:

• Nursery - Kayan, for making the shapes of the Three Little Pigs houses, using straw, sticks and bricks. 
• Reception - Denys, for his amazing work, writing about our story ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’
• 1T - Kiran, for having an excellent attitude towards all areas of his learning this week
• 1W - Ilyaas, for fantastic reading and using expression!
• 2KB -  Nathan, for showing outstanding effort and dedication in his writing this week.
• 2EJ - Besiana, for fantastic ideas for her diary entry.
•  3B - Klara, for showing kindness and for always being there to support her classmates. 
• 3T - Abdul, for trying really hard in English.
•  4M - Mohamed, for his fantastic effort in maths this week.
• 4P - Aayan, or being a fantastic role model and for always working hard.
• 5GP - Jamie, for his incredible resilience, sportsmanship and enthusiasm in the mini-marathon.
• 5M - Shyal, for consistently demonstrating all of the Links Values.
• 6G - Luke, for consistently making an effort to do his best, in all subjects.
• 6P - Anniah, for her excellent hard-work and perseverance preparing for the SATs tests.

 

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

          

House Points

The house point totals for this week are….

Yellow House - 8966

Red House - 8880

Blue House - 8694

Green House - 8191

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

 

Weekly Attendance  

This week’s attendance figures for each class are:               

• Reception - 92.9%
• 1T - 95.4%
• 1W - 96.0%
• 2EJ - 90.1%
• 2KB - 98.4%
• 3B - 98.2%
• 3T - 96.5%
• 4M - 98.1%
• 4P - 95.8%  
• 5GP - 94.5%
• 5M - 100%
• 6G - 92.3%
• 6P - 100%   

Congratulations to 5M and 6P who both achieved the highest attendance for 100%, this week. Next week, Lincoln the Bear will be learning in Year 5 and Year 6,  he will be learning about the rainforest and writing explanation texts in 5M and in 6P he will be supporting the children with their SATs preparation.

 

95% Attendance Raffle

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

 

Links in Action 

Year One - have been developing their oracy with Kimba and they have been looking at Atlases. 

 

In Science Year 6 have been making periscopes, as part of their topic on ‘Light and Reflection’.

 

Lincoln has been learning with 6P, this week he has been learning about the English Civil War.

 

Lincoln also has joined 2KB in their Polka Oracy workshop and they have been helping out in the garden!

 

Our launch Car finalists

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