Dear Parents and Carers,
Happy Friday and happy St. Patrick’s Day!  It has been a strange week and I’d like to thank you all for your support.  It has been lovely to end it on a high; all dressed in red for Comic Relief… the staff even shared some of their ‘best’ jokes in assembly this afternoon.
With the nicer weather, it is lovely to see more children walking, riding and scooting to school.  Please can I ask that children are reminded to hop off their bikes, scooters, roller skates before coming through the gates – wheels and busy playgrounds can be a dangerous combination. 
Next week looks set to be a fantastically musical one, with lots going on. Our Year 3 classes have been working hard to learn a selection of new songs and on Wednesday afternoon, they are heading to Gloucester Cathedral to take part in ‘Gloucester Junior Voices concert’.  On Thursday afternoon (2:20pm), we have our Year 5 whole-class brass ensemble showcase for parents, followed on Friday morning (9:30am) by a woodwind concert for our individual flute and clarinet players.
I wish you all a lovely weekend
Lucy Collins

The Stars of the Week for week ending 10th March:

Linden was very red today as we supported Red Nose Day 2023. A huge thank you to everyone who donated to this really worthwhile cause. We have raised over £230.00!

This term, Year 5 have been learning to play brass instruments with their teacher from Gloucestershire Music. As you can imagine it's been quite a noisy experience for all, but on Monday 13^th March they were given the amazing opportunity to perform on stage at Cheltenham Town Hall alongside other schools from across Gloucestershire. Not only did they do a fantastic job playing songs like 'We Will Rock You' and 'I Feel Good', their behaviour was impeccable and they did a superb job of representing our school. A massive well done to Year 5, and we look forward to sharing their work in school in their assembly performance on Thursday 23^rd March.

On 8th March, The Wilson Museum came to do a workshop with us all about the polar explorer Edward Wilson who was born and lived locally in Cheltenham. We learnt all about the toys he had growing up in Victorian Britain as well as the work he did that led him to become an explorer. We then had a close look at some of the artefacts and paintings produced on Wilson's polar explorations. After this, we had the best time trying to be an explorer ourselves, mapping out and naming parts of Antarctica, following guide ropes, studying, and making observational drawings of wildlife. 

To celebrate British Science Week, we had two Oxford lecturers to visit KS2 and talk to us about our Green Planet. Here we were able to see acids and alkalis, nitrogen reactions and the effects of fuels on our atmosphere. 

KS1 watched a live lesson from the NFU on 'how tractors are connected to space!' 

Happy Science week! 

World Book Day 2023

Thank you to all of the parents who joined the KS1 and EYFS children to read stories it was lovely to see so many of you. The children really enjoyed sharing books with you and getting to show you their learning environments. Throughout the day the children were able to hear stories from different teachers and to share books with other classes. It was amazing to hear the children talking with so much enthusiasm for books and sharing their passion for reading.

Year 2 also loved celebrating their passion for reading on World Book Day. They especially enjoyed it when Year 4 shared their favourite stories with them. 

At Young Voices 2023, Year 4 helped record a song with Heather Small. Last Friday it made it to number 6 in the UK top 40!! Congratulations Year 4. If you have Spotify you can listen to the song using this link https://spotify.link/4rDqrnw4eyb

Gloucester Feed The Hungry
We are delighted to be supporting this worthy cause again this year and collecting Easter Eggs for them. The collection box for egg donations wil be available from Monday 20th March to Friday 24th March. This has always been generously supported by our school community in the past, and it would be wonderful if we could show that support again this year.     

Sponsored Read and Book Fair
We are excited to be running this event again over the Easter holidays.  All money raised will enable books to be purchased for the school.  At the end of the event there will be a book fair in school, on Friday 21st April. More information will be released soon. 

We are working on some other events so look out for details of these. As always, we would welcome new helpers.  Please do get in touch at [email protected] if you would like to get involved or find out more.  

Friends of Linden 

My name is Ms Sidhu, 

Having worked at Linden Primary School for over 20 years, I am now the founder of my own business Draw to Explore.

My practice supports clients with a non-cognitive therapeutic method which is recommended by CAMHS. It is currently being used very successfully with children within my pastoral role at school.

Below are the details of the service I provide, please do not hesitate to contact me if you require any further information or wish to make a booking.

Email: [email protected]

We have space for 10 adults to join us for this Spring Crafts Workshop.  Please call the school office 01452 527020 to book.

We have space for 10 adults to join us for this CV Writing Workshop. We cannot accommodate children.  Please call the school office 01452 527020 to book.

We have space for 10 adults to join us for this Family First Aid Taster Session.  There will be a creche but spaces are strictly limited to 6.  Please call the school office 01452 527020 to book.

Message from the HAF Team:

We would like to give every eligible family the opportunity to experience the fantastic support available from the Holiday Activities and Food programme, so making sure they're HAF ready when booking opens on 16 March is really important to us.

Previously, most activity bookings have been taken up in the first few days of bookings going live and we don't want any families to miss out.

We'd really appreciate you sharing details of the HAF programme with parents as soon as possible. It is available for children who receive benefits related free school meals and are in reception to year 11.

kind regards,

The HAF team