Links News

Friday 28th November, 2024

Dear Links Families,

This afternoon our children travelled the world in our geography afternoon. Each class visited another year group to learn about their geography topic. From the UK to Kenya, learning about volcanoes, earthquakes and rivers. We have had a lovely adventure learning key facts and completing specific activities linking to this exciting geography topic.

It has been a very cold week, with temperatures reminding us that winter is truly here. While the school remains warm and cozy, we kindly remind parents to ensure children bring a coat to stay comfortable during outdoor play times. Please make sure you write your child’s name on their coat, our lost property box is overflowing with lost items!

And finally, just a reminder that the school closes on Friday 20th December at 2pm and will reopen for all children on Monday 6th January 2025

Mufti Day

Next Monday 2nd December is a MUFTI day. The children can wear their own clothes to school, to raise donations for the Christmas Fair. We are asking the children to bring in a bottle (alcoholic, juice, fizzy drink, bubble bath etc) or a Christmas Treat (Christmas theme chocolate, biscuits, selection boxes etc).

Friday Tuck Shop

The children have asked us to send out a reminder, that on Fridays we have a tuck shop.

All items are healthy snacks and cost 80p.

Links Values Award

Links Value Winners - 29th November 2024

This week’s Values Awards go to:

Reception - Enrico, for his amazing effort in his phonics and writing this week.
1T - Zayn, for always showing kindness towards others.
1W - Andrii, for having a positive and enthusiastic attitude to his learning.
2KB - Georgiana, for hard work and creativity during oracy workshop.
2EJ - Akshayan, for some brilliant map and key work, when creating a Kenyan national park.
3B - Klara, for taking pride in doing the right thing and being a fantastic role model to others.
3T - Maida, for being an excellent role model and a resilient learner.
4M- Mikolaj, for always demonstrating the Links values and being such a good role model
4P - Sabaha, for always demonstrating the Links Values and her tremendous hard work in all that she does!
5GP - Kacper, editing his own writing to make it even better.
5M - Ayaan, for demonstrating excellent effort revising and improving his writing.
6G - Elsie, for her amazing ideas in writing this week.
6P - Haofei, or his hard work this week in English writing a non-chronological report.

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

House Points

The house point totals for this week are….

Yellow House - 2419

Blue House - 2418

Red House - 2355

Green House - 2238

Congratulations to Yellow House who have taken the lead!

Weekly Attendance

This week’s attendance figures for each class are:

Reception - 92%
1T - 96.6%
1W - 89.3%
2EJ - 92.1%
2KB - 84.6%
3B - 95.5%
3T - 95.1%
4M - 95.5%
4P - 94.4%
5GP - 100%
5M - 95.3%
6G - 92.9%
6P - 97.5%

Congratulations to 5GP who achieved the highest attendance this week.

Lincoln the Bear will be staying with 5GP next week. Where they will be designing outfits for fictional characters, in DT.

95% Attendance Raffle

This week’s tickets go to 1T, 3B, 3T, 4M, 5GP, 5M and 6P.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Links Team

Dates for your diary

Date	Event
Wednesday 4th December am	Year 2 to attend the Nativity at Deen City Farm (during school time)
Friday 6th December 2024	PTA Christmas Fair 3:30 Choir to sing at 4pm
Friday 13th December	EYFS Christmas Arts and Crafts (Nursery and reception parents - invitation only)
Monday 16th December	Year 1 Nativity assembly to parents (year 1 parents - invitation only) 2:15pm
Monday 16th December	4pm Performing Arts Show to parents
Tuesday 17th December	Rev. Belemo will be leading the assembly and retelling the Nativity. (within school time)
Tuesday 17th December -	Year 5 to visit the Christmas Show at Wimbledon Library (during school time)
Wednesday 18th December	Christmas Jumper Day - (Winter themed clothing welcome)
Wednesday 18th December	Christmas Lunch - All children can have a free lunch.
Thursday 19th December	Year 3 Christmas Panto (year 3 parents - invitation only) 2:15pm
Thursday 19 December	Nursery last day (at normal time)
Friday 20th December	Last day of school - Children leave at 2pm

Links in Action

Today we travelled around the world experiencing different countries and physical features. We drew maps of our local area, made seismometers,made African jewellery, pyramids and volcanos. We had a great time!