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.
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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
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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)
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Gather ‘round all ye jugglin’ sea-hoys and listen close!
I’ve been thinking about…., no worrying about, my teeth falling out and all these aches and pains keeping me up at night. What’s the point of working so hard climbing the sails and rowing all day. If our Great captain never even gives us a square hot meal at the end of the day.
Haven’t ye had enough of harsh punishments, threatened with stranding on empty islands.
Sleep interrupted by the scratching of rats crawling over you? Who does this Captain think he is, even though he keeps steering us in circles? Aren’t you tired of the lawlessness, getting your stuff stolen out of the bunk and finding someone else sleeping in your spot at night.
If I were Captain I promise ye,grand waterfalls of gold more money than you know what to do with. And split evenly among all the workers. You will each have daring stories of fighting sea beasts, sure to spread your name, and fame far and wide.
Together we will build the most fearsome armada this world has ever seen, with ships from every country and cannons which strike like lightning.
Available in Semesters 1 and 2, 2026.
