Links News 
Friday 13th June, 2025
Dear Links Families,
The sun is shining and it has been another busy week at school. This week our year 4 children have been busy putting all their hard work into practice as they completed their Multiplication Tables Check. They worked extremely hard and completed the twenty questions online in a limited amount of time. We are all extremely proud of their achievements and the way they conducted and supported each other this week.
Next week is arts week and this year we have a multicultural theme. Our arts week embraces all the arts including dance, drama, art and cooking and Miss Eades-Jones and Miss Marcelo have planned a jam packed timetable so that all year groups get the opportunity to take part in lots of activities. We can’t wait! Thank you to all the parents who have also volunteered to help out too, your help and support is really appreciated.
Don’t forget that on Friday the Children are welcome to wear traditional clothing or flag colours from a country of their choice on Friday. Sports clothing has to be linked to culture.
We are also collecting photos for our fashion gallery. We would love to see photos of the children dressed in their traditional outfits whether it be a kilt from Scotland, a kimono from Japan or a Sari from Sri Lanka. Please upload pictures wearing their traditional clothing on google classroom or enquiries@links.merton.sch.uk so later on we can display them in an online fashion gallery.
Summer Event Calendar
With only 5 weeks to go, we are going to be busy. Please see our summer events calendar.
Summer Events Calendar 2025
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Date |
Event |
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June |
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16-20 June |
Arts Week |
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20 - 26 June |
Book Fair |
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Wed 25 June |
PGL meeting for Yr 6 Parents |
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Thurs 26 June |
Yr 3 at the Polka Theatre, The Boy with Wings 1:45pm |
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Fri 27 June |
New to Reception and Nursery Teddy Bears Picnic |
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Fri 27 June |
Yr 6 Jazz at Lincoln Centre 10:30 - 12:30 |
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July |
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Tues 1 July |
Music extravaganza to parents Yr 2,3,4,5 14:00 - 15:00 |
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Thurs 3 July |
Early Years Sports Day at school 14:00 - 15:00 |
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Thurs 3 July |
Sports Day at the athletics track 09:00 - 12:00 |
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Fri 4 - Mon 7 July |
PGL Residential for Year 6 |
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Sun 6 July |
Figges Marsh Park Run Headliner event - Mitcham Cluster 9:00am |
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Wed 9 July |
PC Towler to visit Year 6 |
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Wed 9 July |
Year 6 Show to Parents 17:00 - 18:30 |
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Thurs 10 July |
Year 2 Trip to the Golden Hinde |
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Thurs 10 July |
Year 6 Sports Festival at Cranmer |
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Friday 11 July |
Reception trip to London Aquarium |
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Friday 11 July |
Yr 1-6 whole school transition day |
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Friday 11 July |
Reports to parents |
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Friday 11 July |
PTA Summer Fair |
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Mon 14 July |
Early Years Sing song 09:00 |
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Mon 14 July |
Year 1 Explorer Day |
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Mon 14 July |
Year 6 River Boat Cruise and London Eye Trip |
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Mon 14 July |
Performing Arts Club Show 16:15 (Performing Arts Club parents only) |
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Tues 15 July |
Meet the teacher presentations Yr 1-6 15:30 and again at 16:00 |
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Fri 18 July |
Links Big Picnic in the playground |
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Fri 18 July |
Leavers Assembly 13:15 - 13:45 |
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Fri 18 July |
School Finishes 2 pm (No After School Club) |
Links Values Award
Last week, some of our Links Value winners were celebrating Eid-Al-Adha. So this week, we had lots of super proud Links Values Winner. We have never seen so many smiling faces!
Links Value Winners 13th June 2025
This week’s Values Awards go to:
- Nursery - Luka, for learning and remembering the new Makaton signs we learnt this week!
- Reception - Scarlett, for using her initial sound to label her picture about pirates.
- 1T - Marwan, for being a role model to his peers and showing all of the Links Values.
- 1T- Enarah, for always being so kind and helpful, it has been lovely to see you supporting your peers this week
- 1W - Moscab, for engaging and sharing his ideas in our workshop with Kimba!
- 1W- Ajraaf, for high levels of engagement in our History lesson on Matthew Henson this week!
- 2KB - Aalin, for active engagement in Kimba's workshop. Aalin, your contributions made a meaningful impact!
- 2KB - Nathan, for his consistent support with classroom routines every day.
- 2EJ - Antoine-Loic, for his attention to detail in Art this week. He has produced a wonderful piece of work inspired by Beatriz Milhazes!
- 3B - Christian, for writing fantastic stories at home and proudly sharing them with the class.
- 3T - Amelia, for continuously demonstrating the Links Values.
- 4M - Mali, for demonstrating such resilience and kindness at Sayers Croft.
- 4P - Tasmia, for her super focus and resilience in Maths during our topic on Money.
- 5GP - Amir, for showing enthusiasm towards writing and contributing exciting ideas to our joint write.
- 5GP- Sarah, for clearly explaining her problem solving strategies to the class in maths.
- 5M - Haroon, for your perseverance and hard work!
- 5M- Carla, for maintaining a positive attitude and showing resilience.
- 6G - Harrison, for showing resilience in every subject all year.
- 6G - Jordan, for excellent work for the last 2 weeks on Science and diversity.
- 6P - Luca, for an excellent attitude towards all areas of school life!
- 6P- Amelie, for her excellent dedication and participation in the show and all lessons 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 - 10589
Red House - 10568
Yellow House - 10434
Green House - 10342
Congratulations to Blue House who are this week’s winners!
Weekly Attendance
This week’s attendance figures for each class are:
- Reception - 87.5%
- 1T - 92.6%
- 1W - 89.2%
- 2EJ - 97.4%
- 2KB - 96.9%
- 3B - 96.4%
- 3T - 98.9%
- 4M - 98.6%
- 4P - 99.6%
- 5GP - 98.9%
- 5M - 97.1%
- 6G - 95.5%
- 6P - 90.9%
Congratulations to 4P who achieved the highest attendance this week. Next week, Lincoln will be joining 4P for Multicultural Arts Week, where he will learning about Italy, making pizza, taking part in an art and dance workshop.
95% Attendance Raffle
This week’s winning tickets go to 2EJ, 2KB, 3B, 3T, 4M, 4P 5GP, 5M and 6G.
Links in Action
Our Nursery children were cooling off in today’s heat (we were very jealous)
Lincoln has been learning with 4M, he enjoyed reading Kensuki’s Kingdom and learning about money!
Lincoln joined 2KB in their PSHE lesson about gender stereotypes. It was very thought provoking.
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