Friday 3rd May 2024
Dear Links Families,
This week has been a little arty! I have seen lots of clay models taking form, from flowers to animals and polar bears. Year 5 has been printing and Year 3 has been doing photography. Our Reception classes visited the Polka Theatre to watch a performance of Skydiver. We are very lucky to have such a wonderful theatre nearby. They have lots of shows on offer throughout the year and at an affordable price. We are always so grateful to the Polka Theatre, who regularly include Links Primary in their free ticket scheme. We would like to say a big thank you to all the parents who helped on this trip, previous trips and future trips! Our children would not be able to attend all these wonderful experiences without your volunteering. We are so grateful and proud of the Links Community!
Reminder - School Uniform
We know many of you are super organised and are thinking about uniform for next year. Here is the link to the school website with a reminder of our uniform. https://www.links.merton.sch.uk/Parents/Uniform/
Just a reminder that from September 2024, the yellow polo shirt will no longer be part of the Links uniform. All children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 will be wearing a white polo shirt.
If you have any questions, come see us at the school gate or just ask the school office.
PTA Update
Today a Parentmail was sent out on behalf of our PTA, with dates of all the events happening this term. We are very excited by the cake sale, discos, legoland tickets and summer social in July.
Just a reminder that the Bag2School collection is next Friday (10th May).
If you've had a spring clean and have bags of clothes waiting to go to the charity shop, please bring them into school any morning between the 6th and 10th of May and we can help turn your old clothes into money for Links School.
Members of the PTA team will be at the school gates every morning from 6th to 10th May to take your bags of clothes, paired shoes, bags, belts (please note no uniforms, bedding or workwear can be accepted). It's an easy way to save you a trip to the charity shop and raise money for the school at the same time.
If you have any questions please email the PTA team on: PTALinksPrimary@gmail.com
Links Values Award
Our Links Value this half term is Kindness. From Nursery to Year 6 and beyond, we care for Links children inside and outside the classroom. We expect them to show the same kindness to others - treating them as they would wish to be treated - because we’ve learned that kindness creates happiness.
This week’s Values Awards go to:
- Nursery - Macy for her wonderful name writing and for developing her confidence to share her ideas!
- Rainbow Class - Issa for demonstrating all of the Links Values, while on today’s school trip.
- Sunshine Class - Logan for being kind and for helping others.
- 1EJ - Nathan for showing kindness by helping another child in the class.
- 1W - Safiya for being such a kind and caring member of 1W.
- 2B- Georgie for her hard work and for inspiring others to follow the Links Values at all times.
- 2T - Benjamin for demonstrating resilience in maths and completing his tasks.
- 3B - Rosa for being an all round superstar.
- 3P - Ayesha for being a resilient learner in Maths.
- 4M - Kacper for his positive attitude towards learning and for showing kindness to his friends.
- 4T - Shivi for his positive and uplifting attitude towards his learning.
- 4T - Ahmed for always demonstrating the Links Values.
- 5M - Jaishan for working hard on his explanation text.
- 5KG - Ali for spreading happiness and joy with his kind words and smile.
- 6G - Oliver for brilliant writing this week.
- 6M Tashfeen for some excellent dialogue writing around Macbeth.
Well done for demonstrating our Links Values. We are very proud of you all!
House Points
Red House continues to be in the lead. But for how long……….?
The house point totals for this week are….
Red House - 7345
Yellow House - 7264
Green House - 7218
Blue House - 7049
Weekly Attendance
This week’s attendance figures for each class are:
- Rainbow - 90.6%
- Sunshine - 97.9%
- 1EJ - 97.7%
- 1W - 86.3%
- 2B - 96.7%
- 2T - 96.7%
- 3B - 94.8%
- 3P - 97.2%
- 4M - 97.9%
- 4T - 96.1%
- 5KG - 94.8%
- 5M - 96.7%
- 6G - 92%
- 6M - 97.6 %
Congratulations to 4M and Sunshine Class, who achieved the highest attendance this week.
Lincoln the Bear will be spending next week in Year 4 and in Reception, where he will be learning about counties and superheroes! This week’s 95% tickets go to Sunshine, 1EJ, 2B, 2T, 3P, 4M, 4T, 5M and 6M. All classes with a weekly attendance of 95% or above, will receive a raffle ticket for the end of half term draw.
Enjoy the bank holiday weekend,
Natalie, Vicki and the Links Team
