Links News

Friday 7th March, 2025

Dear Links Families,

Yesterday and throughout the week, we had a lots of fun celebrating World Book Day. The children took part in a variety of book-themed activities including visits and workshops by authors and illustrators, book-themed activities, trips to Wimbledon Library to see the Gruffalo, competitions and stories told by other teachers.

It was lovely to see such imagination as the children came to school dressed as their favourite book characters. Thank you for all the effort made. We celebrated together as a whole school and really enjoyed seeing everyones outfits and guessing the book character. Our thanks also go to Mrs Plackett and Mrs Trounce for organising such a great week, we really hope this week helps to instil a love of reading.

Competition Winners

This year, we had two competitions running for World Book Day. The first one was for reading in unusual places and the second competition was for writing a poem about a book character. Congratulations to all the winners, they received their prizes in assembly yesterday.

Book Fair

We have been delighted by the crowds at the book fair this week. In total, we have received over £400 in commission. Every book purchased means the school gets money to spend on books too and today our lucky teachers got to go and choose lots of lovely books for their class bookshelves.

Thank you to everyone who has bought a book this week but also a big thank you to the children in year 6 who have done a great job promoting the book fair and the author visits.

School Lunches Next Week

On Monday 10th & Tuesday 11th March, our kitchen will be having essential maintenance work done. This means that our menu will change on those days. Our wonderful kitchen staff will be preparing a tasty school packed lunch for all the children who usually have a school lunch. Our usual menu will be back in place from Wednesday 12th March. Please contact the school office if you have any questions.

PTA Table Top Sale

✨ Don’t miss out on amazing bargains! Join us at our Table Top Sale for treasures and trinkets!

In the school playground on the 23rd of March🛍️🎉"

Links Values Award

Links Value Winners 7th March 2025

This week’s Values Awards go to:

Nursery - Moiz, for being brave and trying new things! E.g. Designing a top using recycled materials.
Reception - Alayna, for your amazing independent writing about ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, using picture prompts.
1T - Marwan, for settling into our new class so well, and taking the time to help out around the classroom without being asked.
1W - Mohamed, for a focused approach to our new Geography unit.
2KB - Tomek, for writing independently in English.
2EJ - Amarah, for working so hard on her adventure story!
3B - Azhaar, for her excellent effort and always having a go!
3T - Zakhar, for trying hard to improve his handwriting and presentation.
4M - Zahir, for demonstrating determination and resilience in Design and Technology
4P - Rosa, for working incredibly hard to write creative and witty poems for her poetry book.
5GP - Hyrije, for using exciting sentence starters in her robot description.
5M - Zara, for consistently showing kindness and empathy towards others.
6G - Ethan, for showing resilience and improving his mathematical understanding of percentages.
6P - Safiya, for her continued excellent effort and positive attitude in all that she does!

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 - 6190

Yellow House - 6160

Red House - 5942

Green House - 5475

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

Weekly Attendance

This week’s attendance figures for each class are:

Reception - 92.6%
1T - 97.7%
1W - 92.8%
2EJ - 98.6%
2KB - 96.8%
3B - 94.3%
3T - 91.8%
4M - 99.07%
4P - 98.6%
5GP - 95.1%
5M - 94.1%
6G - 89.6%
6P - 95%

Congratulations to 4M who achieved the highest attendance. Lincoln the Bear joined 4M today and will be helping the children in Design and Technology to design, make and sew their Viking pouches. They will also be starting their new core book which will be a surprise next week.

95% Attendance Raffle

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

Links in Action

The children in Years 4, 5 & 6, enjoyed an illustrator workshop with Prith & Pen. The illustrator of ‘Threads’.

Mr Triggs held a book reading of his new book 'Threads', in Years 4, 5 & 6 as part of our World Book Day celebrations.

Year 5 took part in a Mighty Myths live drawing workshop with Thiago de Moraes.

In Science, Year 4 have been learning about teeth. They made salt dough models of a set of teeth.

Year 4 have been practising their sewing skills, ready for making Viking pouches.

1W have been reading outside

Lost in a book!

World Book Day Competition - to design a gift card.

Year 2 have been busy making their own chapter books.

They took great pride in writing their story and enjoyed reading them to Mrs Murray and Mrs Anderson.

Year 2 and Reception visited Wimbledon Library to watch The Gruffalo, for World Book Day.

The Year 1 role play has opened. The children have enjoyed their garden centre, selling lots of plants.

It was pancake day on Tuesday.

Reception enjoyed making and eating pancakes.

Reception enjoyed dressing up for World Book Day.

Nursery

Reception

2KB

2EJ

5GP

The Links Team