Boys and girls I was so surprised and delighted to find your special delivery on Friday. I am so sorry that I wasn’t in when Jacob and his Mum brought it round. I was volunteer shopping for someone.

I absolutely LOVE my beautiful gifts. How thoughtful of you all to organise this for me. I love the exquisite heart necklace, it will go with so many of my outfits. It has been much admired on my Facebook page and on Zoom chats already.

I adore scented candles especially once the nights start to get darker. I look forward to burning the geranium and rose petal one.

And I am hugely looking forward to sampling some Cocoa Black treats. I will take friends once the café is open again or I might get take-aways (when they open for those) to share with friends in a garden visit.

I LOVE the beautiful flower bouquet from Stems. Wow! It is brightening up my conservatory, where I spend lots of time in the summer. The flowers are gorgeous.

And I LOVE the card. It is so bright and cheerful.

Boys and girls I have loved being your teacher. I am sorry that we didn’t get to have a full year together because of the virus. Please say hello when you see me around Peebles. I love to hear how my past pupils are getting on.

I have many happy memories of our time together. How could I forget “Lights,  Camels, Action” or your amazing Charles Rennie Mackintosh artwork.  Thank you for being so enthusiastic to learn, so thoughtful of each other and so hard working.

I will hopefully still come to KPS occasionally to teach and I look forward to seeing you then. Have a wonderful summer. YOU are all STARS

Mrs Thomson xx

We hope you have had a fun time with your families in the lovely weather over the holiday. We have missed welcoming you back this morning, but look forward to seeing all the creative ways you share your learning with us. The new learning will be shared later today on the school website. Look on the website for the new KPS challenge making origami models – WOW! Mrs. Thomson and Mrs Dundas

WOW P3!!!    Mrs. Dundas, Miss MacKay and I are amazed at the ideas you have had for learning together with your family at home. You have been so inventive.  You are sharing your learning in such interesting ways. It’s lovely to see brothers and sisters learning together and helping each other.

We are looking forward to seeing what you think of next.

If you haven’t yet shared your learning with us we’d love to hear from you. Lots of love from Mrs Thomson and Mrs Dundas.

Boys and girls I am having a great time reading our shared learning page. Your work is great. I hope you are enjoying family time too.

Some pupils will make up times tables problems like the one Zara Lavin made up. Can you try to answer them on the shared page? I think you can – I am learning so much new technology!! I can now use Zoom and am beginning to use Teams and Padlet, Wow!

I have enjoyed reading your information reports about Sharks and thought you would do so here is a selection.

Look for – a title, a general statement, a description and an evaluation.

Sharks    By Allan Radkowski

Sharks are types of fish.

Sharks breathe through gills. Sharks don’t have bones, instead they have cartilage, what human nose and ears are made of. There are 500 types of shark. A group of sharks is called a school or shoal.

Sharks are marvellous creatures.

Sharks       By Elizabeth Johnston

A shark is a type of fish.

Sharks can be deadly. Sometimes sharks think surfboards are seals so they might take the board. Sharks can hear fish moving 400m away. They can also smell fish from 500m away. Sharks breathe through a thing called gills. There are 500 types of sharks like hammerhead, white and blue. Sharks have a spiky thing on his or her back called a fin. They have a bit at the back, it is to help them swim. They can see in the dark.

I think sharks are good.

Sharks    By Thomas Gifford

Sharks are a type of fish.

Sharks can hear from 500m away. Sharks can smell blood from 400m away. There are 500 species of shark. Sharks live in the ocean. Sharks breathe through their gills. Sharks swim in schools. Sharks sometimes kill other sharks. Only 12 species of shark eat people. Sharks steal tuna fish from seals.

I think sharks are amazing creatures.

Sharks     By Sebastian Bennett

This will tell you about sharks.

It can hear 500m away. It can smell 400m away. Sharks eat squids and crabs and dolphins. It hunts fish normally. Sharks have sharp teeth. Sharks are clever fish. Sharks are carnivores. Shark groups are called schools.

I think sharks are great.

Sharks    By Charlotte Shearer

Sharks are a type of fish.

They can smell blood from 400m away. They can hear a fish move from 500m away. Big sharks eat other sharks, sea lions, dolphins and small whales. Small sharks eat squid, crab and clams. A group of sharks is called a school. Sharks breathe out of their gills. If they stop moving they will die. There are 500 types of sharks such as hammerhead, tiger shark, great white shark and grey reef shark. Sharks live in the ocean.

I think sharks are fascinating.

Sharks   By Harris Crosbie

This will tell you about sharks.

A shark can smell a drop of blood. Sharks use their gills to breathe. Sharks can hear fish from 500m away. There are 500 different types of shark. Scientists believe that sharks have been in our ocean for 455 million years.

Sharks are cool.

Well done everyone.

Mrs. Thomson and Mrs. Dundas hope that P3 are all well and keeping safe.

We hope that you will keep in touch with us all and share what you have been doing at home.  You can do this by adding your work to the Shared Learning Page, by commenting on the blog or by emailing us.

We hope you enjoy doing fun things with your family in this extra time at home and look forward to seeing all your great ideas.

Today we drew roses and squares onto a ceramic tile using permanent pens and Sharpies. We were inspired by the work  of Scottish Artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

We are all thrilled with our awesome art.

Captain Puggle poem

Click on the green writing to open our Captain Puggle Poem PowerPoint.

P3 can learn Captain Puggle or the Sair Finger or both poems. Have fun P3.

The Sair Finger

You’ve hurt your finger? Puir wee man! Your pinkie? Deary me! Noo, juist you haud it that wey till I get my specs and see!

My, so it is – and there’s the skelf! Noo, dinna greet nae mair. See there – my needle’s gotten’t out! I’m sure that wasna sair?

And noo, to make it hale the morn, Put on a wee bit saw, And tie a Bonnie hankie roun’t Noo, there na – rin awa’!

Your finger sair ana’? Ye rogue, You’re only lettin’ on. Weel, weel, then – see noo, there ye are, Row’d up the same as John!

By Walter Wingate

P3 were inspired by very old paintings of the nativity and very modern art work of the Nativity including cartoon character Nativity scenes. In lots of the art we observed light coming from the baby Jesus. We chose a variety of media to create our Nativity art.

Look closely at our awesome art,:

Can you see any favourite cartoon characters?

Can you see light around Baby Jesus?