The Pirates Guide

Years 5-6

Three-week Program

Fasten your tricorns and polish your blades. This program will arm every young swashbuckling scallywag with the literary skills they need for a creatively narrated life of sea-faring, kraken-killing and treasure-nicking. Students will craft vivid descriptions, create nuanced characters, and plot persuasive mutinies. So you want to be a pirate? Let's get stAAARRRRRRRRted.

• Australian Curriculum Outcomes

  Description text goCreate literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining (ACELT1607) 

  Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts (ACELT1692) es here

• NSW Syllabus Outcomes

  plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language text goes here (EN3-CWT-01)

• Sample Student Writing

Available in Semester 1, 2026.