Links News 

Friday 14th February, 2025

 

Dear Links Families,

 

It’s been a busy end to the half term.  On Tuesday, the Heads of School from Cranmer and Haslemere along with our Merton Education Partner, Ewan Morrison, came to see the school.  They visited all classes and dropped in on Maths lessons and a variety of other lessons from across the school.  The feedback from this visit was extremely positive, they commented on the good behaviour of the children, their level of engagement and the impact the carefully planned lessons have on the children’s learning.  They also recognised the fantastic team of staff we have here at Links.  We were very proud of our staff and our children.

 

On Wednesday, we were invaded by Romans!  They came dressed in fine robes and armour and quickly set about making shields for themselves.  They also made dough to make cheese and honey pizza, which was a change from their usual diet of flamingo tongues and mice dipped in honey!  At the end of the day, the Heads of School got to see how their army fought in a battle.  They fought in a tight formation and protected themselves behind their long shields.  It was a super day and we saw lots of learning take place, check out Links in Action (below) for some super photos!

Our Governors

We are very lucky to have a dedicated group of volunteer governors who support the school at a strategic level.  They work hard behind the scenes helping us to keep up and improve all aspects of the school for the benefit of our children.  Additionally, this term several of the governors have supported the school with various community projects.  We would like to say a big thank you to Sabrina Winters for initially working with Liz from Canons House to get the three schools together (Links, Beecholme and Gorringe) for the Tri-School Art Exhibition.  She also came to help with the installation of the exhibition and was a great help with trimming paper and backing multiple boards.  Emily Fleuriot has also been a super ambassador for the Figges Marsh Park Run.  As the park run director, she has helped run an assembly to promote the event and then come into school to run mini events before the headliner event last Sunday.  We are very lucky to have such a committed team!

On Thursday 27th February, the Governors will be in school talking to the children and staff and seeing the learning that is taking place.  They will also be at the school gates in the morning and at the end of the day so please do come and say hello to them and have a chat.

Links Values Award

 Links Value Winners 14th February 2025

This week’s Values Awards go to:

• Nursery - Julian, for writing the numerals 1-5 all by himself! 
• Reception - Aniyah, for always trying hard during our Phonics lessons. 
• 1T - Veronika, for her excellent effort and progress in her phonics assessments. 
• 1W - Nayaniga, for having a resilient and focused approach to her writing this week!
• 2KB - Aalin, for her continuous hard work and improvement in all learning areas.
• 2EJ - John, for an interesting and imaginative ending to his letter from a soldier.
• 3B - Jasim, for his fantastic work ethic in every lesson.
• 3T - Alex, for being a resilient learner when writing.
• 4M - Vallentina, for her resilience when learning new concepts in maths. 
• 4P - Isaac, for his engagement and enthusiasm with his learning, especially in Maths.
• 5GP - Sumaiya, for using her knowledge of percentages and decimals to help a friend.
• 5M - Leilan, for your outstanding effort, creativity, and dedication in your pointillism artwork.
• 6G - Max, for excellent work in Spanish, describing different items of clothing.
• 6P -  Anthony, or making great progress in all areas of his learning this half term.

Our Links Value winners joined Mrs Anderson, Mrs Murray and Mr Roughley for Hot Chocolate Friday!  

          

House Points

The house point totals for this week are….

Yellow House - 5441

Blue House - 5125

Red House - 5001

Green House - 4789

Congratulations to Yellow House who are this half term’s winners! All children in Yellow House received today’s extra long playtime.  

Weekly Attendance  

This week’s attendance figures for each class are:               

• Reception - 90.3%
• 1T - 76.2%
• 1W - 86.9%
• 2EJ - 89.5%
• 2KB - 95.3%
• 3B - 99.4%
• 3T - 96.7%
• 4M - 89.3%
• 4P - 87.9%  
• 5GP - 92.4%
• 5M - 98.4%
• 6G - 89.1%
• 6P - 93.1%   

Congratulations to 3B who achieved the highest attendance this week. Lincoln the Bear will spend the first week back, after half term, in Year 3, where he will be learning about Rome and writing some poetry, linked to our author visit Neal Zetter. 

 

95% Attendance Raffle

This week’s winning tickets go to 2KB, 3B, 3T and 5M. 

Today we drew the winning 95% raffle ticket and the winners were…………. 3B!!!

This afternoon, 3B made some delicious and very sprinkly rice krispie cakes.

 

 

 

Links in Action 

Year 3’s Roman Day 

 

Year 3 made shields, honey and cheese pizza and demonstrated a Roman  battle formation. 

 

 

 

Year 5 have been learning about Pointillism and were inspired by artist Georges Seurat

 

Year 3 built Roman Aqueducts

 

Gymnastics with Lincoln and 6P

 

 

Lincoln and 6P have been reading The Threads which is the first book written  by Mr Triggs (who used to teach at Links)

 

 Year 6 have been writing their science fiction stories, based on the stimulus The Eye of the Storm. 

 

 

Year 5 made a Greek Salad inspired by their topic the Ancient Greeks. 

 

 Year 1 were working with a partner to discuss their new goals, in PSHE.

 

Year 2 made Loxton puppets in DT. Loxton is one of the main characters in their core book, Vlad and the Florence Nightingale Adventure.

 

On Sunday Mrs Murray and Miss Thurlow were joined by some of our pupils at the Fun Run on Figges Marsh. This happens every Sunday morning and you are welcome to come along and run, walk or watch.

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