Links News

Friday 24th January, 2025

Dear Links Families,

This week, the children have been busy bees and there has been lots of learning around the school. Year 5, used their magnifying glasses to investigate parts of a flower. Year 2 have been making a church, ready to display their stain glass windows. Today, the children in Nursery and Reception took part in a very exciting dance lesson in PE, it was so much fun that we had to take part!

Yesterday, Steve and Emily from Junior parkrun came into school during assembly time to tell us all about the 2k parkrun that takes place every Sunday on Figges Marsh. We found out that the parkrun is for children aged 4 to 14 and is for the whole community to come together to walk, jog, run and volunteer. On Sunday 9th February we will be holding our very own headliner event at Figges Marsh and it would be lovely to see lots of our Links children there. Please click on the link for more information. https://www.parkrun.org.uk/figgesmarsh-juniors/

NSPCC Number Day

Just a reminder that on Friday 7th February 2025, we will be supporting the NSPCC by taking part in Number Day.

We will be having a fun day of maths activities as well as taking part in Dress up for Digits. Pupils can wear an item of clothing with a number on it (football shirt, cap, netball shirt or even a onesie!). Or, they can get even more creative by dressing in a maths or numbers theme. If you do not have anything number themed at home, do not worry, you can wear anything patterned or with shapes on it. To help raise money for the NSPCC we are asking for donations. If you can, please send in a donation to support the NSPCC’s work. This can be given to the class teacher on the day.

Calling all Artists!

We have registered for the Royal Academy Young Artists’ Show 2024. This is an exciting opportunity for students aged 4-18 to exhibit their work on site or online at the Royal Academy of Arts. Work can be submitted between now and the 5th March 2025 and is easy to do. You just need to upload a picture of your work or sculpture and then add a brief description of the work. Please see the poster below for more information.

https://yass.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/2025/YASS-Digital-Poster.pdf

Social Media - we need your help!

We are including this message again, as only 6 parents responded to our social media google form. This google form has only one question, so please give us your opinion. https://forms.gle/aphiGSH8TAnMH89TA

We’re exploring our social media presence and would love your input! Let us know which platforms you use so we can keep you updated on events, showcase our learning, and share how amazing Links is with everyone. Your feedback will help us stay connected and celebrate our school community together!

Links Values Award

Links Value Winners 25th January 2025

This week’s Values Awards go to:

Nursery - Kerry, for recognising the sounds s,a,t,p,i,n and sorting picture cards to the matching sounds.
Reception - Philip, for his hard work and his amazing blending.
1T - Alayna, for always having a positive attitude towards her learning.
1W - Ibrahim, or taking great pride in his fantastic Maths work this week.
2KB - Zofia, for having a resilient and positive attitude towards her learning. Well done!
2EJ - Najma, for spreading joy with her enthusiasm and positivity!
3B - Max, for having a positive attitude towards his learning, especially in maths!
3T - Freddie, for having a more focused approach to his learning.
4M - Maya, for her consistently fabulous attitude towards learning. A GREAT role model.
4P - Maria, for super effort with her work in English this week
5GP - Asaad, for being a lovely, encouraging friend during the mini- parkrun.
5M - Ruby, for your outstanding hard work in math lessons. Keep up the fantastic effort!
6G - Aman, for excellent work on scientific investigations; forming accurate conclusions and demonstrating a great understanding of how to improve the reliability of results from investigations.
6P - Obrempon, for always being dedicated and making great improvements in his learning.

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 - 4078

Yellow House - 4064

Green House - 3849

Red House - 3844

Congratulations to Blue House who are still in the lead.

Weekly Attendance

This week’s attendance figures for each class are:

Reception - 92.5%
1T - 86.9%
1W - 22.1%
2EJ - 90.7%
2KB - 91.4%
3B - 94.8%
3T - 94%
4M - 96.3%
4P - 94.4%
5GP - 88%
5M - 92.1%
6G - 96.7%
6P - 93.7%

Congratulations to 6G who achieved the highest attendance this week. Lincoln the Bear will be in year 6, where he will be creating a Mayan mask in DT.

95% Attendance Raffle

This week’s winning tickets go to 4M and 6P.

Links in Action

Other information

Parenting Workshop at Haslemere