Links News

6th December, 2024

 

Dear Links Families,

 

We are getting ready to welcome you all to our Christmas Fair today 3:30-5:00 pm. Be sure to listen out to our choir who will be singing at 4pm as well as Santa, who will be making a visit. We are looking forward to seeing you there! 

This week, our year 2 pupils visited Deen City Farm to take part in the retelling of the nativity, with real life animals. This was such a lovely experience and we thank Deen City Farm for inviting us. 

 

Year 6 have been out on 2 educational visits this week. The first on a River Wandle walk, linking to their topic on rivers and yesterday to the Southbank to watch the Lollies Awards, which are the ‘Laugh Out Loud’ Book Awards (the Lollies) celebrates the best and funniest children’s books in the UK and Ireland, voted for by children. 

 All of the children came back with a goodie bag of books. We would like to thank scholastic for inviting us and Mrs Plackett for organising it. 

 

Again, we would like to thank all of our parent helpers for volunteering their time to support these visits. Without your support these amazing learning opportunities would not be possible. 

 

My Child at School App

 

Exciting news! We have a new way of keeping in contact with you.

MyChildAtSchool (MCAS) is an online portal for parents that enables you to view your child's performance at school in real-time via the web. The facility allows you to book clubs, trips and wraparound care, choose dinners and access your child's timetable, attendance and reports whenever you wish.

Parents can access MCAS via the website or can use the MCAS App which can be downloaded from the app/play store. Just use the email address that we have at school for you to register.

• MCAS Parent Guide
• See other Parent MCAS articles HERE.

 

From January 2025 all communication will be sent via My Child at School. We encourage you to download the app to ensure you do not miss any announcements. From February half term, we will no longer be using Parentpay, this will be accessed by the app also. 

 

Links Values Award

 

Links Value Winners 6th December 2024 

 

This week’s Values Awards go to:

• Nursery - Kevin, for his excellent rocket making skills, using Magnetic building blocks.
• Reception -  Taqwa, for showing enthusiasm and responsibility throughout her learning. 
• 1T - Enarah, for excellent effort and independence in all that she does.
• 1W - Harvey, for effort and motivation in his  D.T lessons,  when making a castle. 
• 2KB - Sumaya, for her wonderful participation in the nativity play. You have a beautiful singing voice!
• 2EJ - Denys, for fantastic and imaginative ideas in writing! 
• 3B - Maria, for resilience and happiness, while getting familiar with being at a new school. 
• 3T - Christian, for his hard work and effort in our pantomime.
• 4M - Azra, for representing the school so well to visitors.  What a great role model!
• 4P - Asra, for working hard in all subjects and being a kind friend to all. 
• 5GP - Mishti, for helping and showing respect to a visiting teacher.
• 5M - Aksharasa, for demonstrating resilience and positivity, when facing challenges.
• 6G - Alif, for excellent behaviour and knowledge on our Rivers Trip.
• 6P - Amelie, for a superb non-chronological report and for taking pride in her writing. 

 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 - 2856

Blue House - 2745

Red House - 2687

Green House - 2567

Congratulations to Yellow House who have remained in the lead!

 

Weekly Attendance  

This week’s attendance figures for each class are:               

• Reception - 81.8%
• 1T - 94.8%
• 1W - 91.6.3%
• 2EJ - 94.1%
• 2KB - 91.9%
• 3B - 94.8%
• 3T - 94.5%
• 4M - 83.9%
• 4P - 94.4%  
• 5GP - 94.5%
• 5M - 92.1%
• 6G - 97.2%
• 6P - 98.7%   

Congratulations to 6P who achieved the highest attendance this week.

Lincoln the Bear will be 6P next week where he will be reading and writing poetry and learning some more Spanish.

 

95% Attendance Raffle

This week’s tickets go to  6G and 6P.

 

Have a lovely weekend.

 

The Links Team

 

 

 Dates for your diary   

Date	Event
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

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