Links News 

Friday 20th June, 2025

Dear Links Families,

It has been a very hot week this week at Links. As you may be aware, the government has issued an amber alert health warning, as the warm weather is expected to continue this weekend. 

Please keep your families safe by following the advice of the UKHSA. 

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/first-yellow-heat-health-alert-of-2025-issued-for-4-regions

Although the weather is expected to cool down next week, it will still reach temperatures of up to 27°c. With this in mind, please ensure the following: 

• Your child comes to school with a full water bottle. 
• They can wear a sun hat (don’t forget to write their name in it). 
• You can apply suncream on them before they come to school. 
• Children will continue to wear their school uniform with the exception that children in key stage 2 do not need to wear their ties for this week.
• Please do not overlay your child with vests or T-shirts under shirts. 

Multicultural Art Week

This week at Links, we have celebrated art week with a multicultural twist. Every year group focused on a country. Our early years pupils learned about Brazil, year one studied India and year two immersed themselves in the Greek culture.  Year three had a South African experience while year four learned about all things Italian, Year five have been learning about America and year 6 were learning about Poland. Throughout the week all classes took part in a PE lesson, which was based on a style dance from that country, an art workshop where the children designed their own flags and a cooking activity, where their children put their culinary skills to the test and created a dish from that country. The smells of pizza, Queenie cupcakes, cheese bread, Polish salad, Greek biscuits and mango lassi have been wafting around the corridors making our mouths water.

We also want to say a huge thank you to all the parents and grandparents who came in to support and enhance our Multicultural Arts week by sharing their skills and experiences with us. We had parents come in to talk at our assembly, help out with our cooking classes or to tell us about their culture and teach us a few words in their language.  

A big shout-out must also go to Milena, Yan and Pawel’s mum who led abstract art workshops in every year group this week.  We really appreciate the time and effort she put into delivering these workshops.  The children really enjoyed them and produced some fabulous work.

Links Summer Fair 

Come and join us at our summer fair 

after school on Friday 11th July. 

More details to follow!

Links Values Award

 Links Value Winners 20th June 2025

This week’s Values Awards go to:

Nursery - Usman, for following Nursery routines and completing the vehicle matching game. 

Reception - Musa, for being a phonics superstar! Using his phonics knowledge to create amazing sentences that shine with creativity.

1T - Athaliah, for always being ready for her learning and being a fantastic role model.

1W- Mariesha, for improved focus during writing this week!

2KB - Swaraben, for your continuous hard work and dedication across all areas of learning. 

2EJ - Ada, for her imaginative 'postcard from Greece'.

3B - Rebecca, for showing outstanding enthusiasm during Multicultural Arts Week.

3T -  Mustafa, for being an enthusiastic participant in class discussions.

4M - Hassan, for great engagement and care taken in activities during multicultural arts week.

4P - Adam Z, for fantastic focus and effort with all of his work and being a super helper in class.

5GP- Misthi, for sharing her incredible traditional outfit with the school. 

5M- Khadeeja, for her outstanding effort in today’s dance workshop. 

6G - Maja, for excellent work on Poland including Art and a travel brochure.

6P- Jaishan, for demonstrating great performance skills in the play

Our Links Value winners joined Mrs Anderson and Mrs Murray for

Hot Chocolate Friday!  

House Points

The house point totals for this week are….

Green House - 11152

Yellow House - 11126

Blue House - 11107

Red House - 11095

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

Weekly Attendance  

This week’s attendance figures for each class are:               

• Reception - 92.1%
• 1T - 94.9%
• 1W - 96%
• 2EJ - 96.1%
• 2KB - 100%
• 3B - 98.8%
• 3T - 93.8%
• 4M - 99.5%
• 4P - 96.4%  
• 5GP - 96.7%
• 5M - 98.5%
• 6G - 94.9%
• 6P - 93.8%   

Congratulations to 2KB who achieved the highest attendance this week. Lincoln the Bear cannot wait to spend the week learning in Year 2. 

95% Attendance Raffle

This week’s winning tickets go to  1W, 2EJ, 2KB, 3B, 4M, 4P 5GP, and 5M. 

Summer Events Calendar 2025

Links in Action

Multicultural Arts Week

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