Below, you will find a wide range of ideas and resources to help you
when you are teaching children about Pirates. If you have any relevant
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- Pirates, Pirates, Pirates - Use this format to encourage children to write poetry involving alliteration and lots of adjectives!
- Character Sequencing - A clever way of creating and presenting stories, which could be based upon a pirate theme.
- The Cursed Sword
- A collection of History / Literacy ideas (including a pirate section) which are based on the book 'The Cursed Sword'. - Pirate Adventure
- How will your children complete this pirate adventure? Contributed by Lisa Daniels. - Colouring Pictures 1 - A set of pictures for young children to colour, including a boy pirate. Contributed by Claire Taplin.
- Colouring Pictures 2 - A set of pirate pictures for young children to colour, including a girl pirate. Contributed by Claire Taplin.
- Numbers Treasure Hunt
- An interactive Powerpoint presentation, which challenges children to answer a variety of Maths questions in order to receive the treasure! Contributed by Ian Guest. - Pirate Ship - A fun warm-up PE activity in which children pretend to be on board a pirate ship.
- Treasure Map - Use a treasure map to help children to learn about direction.
- Co-ordinates Treasure Map - Create a treasure map using the co-ordinate grid and then create questions based upon your design.
- Compass Directions - Learn about compass directions by hunting for treasure!
- Controlling a Floor Turtle - A set of ICT plans, contributed by Helen Crompton, which include a pirate-themed activity.
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of the images in these resources, unless otherwise indicated, were drawn by Helen Warner.
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are for classroom use only and may not be reproduced or redistributed for other reasons.
 'Pirates' Banner |
 Pirates Certificate |
 1-50 Treasure Coins |
 Pirates Vocabulary |
 How to Talk Like a Pirate |
 Pirate Word Mat |
 Pirate Display Picture |
 Parrot Display Picture |
 Pirate Ship Display Picture |
- Pirate Flag
- Create a flag for your pirate ship with this fun apptivity. - Pirate Ship - Turn this simple boat design into your own pirate ship!
- Pirate Numbers - You are a pirate, count the barrels in the water, enter the number and press the button to attack the island base.
- Spelling Ship - Read and spell Year One and Two high frequency words.
- Year R words Spelling Ship - Read and spell Reception Year high frequency words.
- Space Pirates Games - A number of fun games linked to the Space Pirates TV show.
- Puke the Pirate - Puke the Pirate needs to collect Black Barf's treasure – help him by running and jumping through many levels of adventure.
- Aargh the Pirate - Help AARGH the Pirate protect his treasure chests from the Sneaky Sharks.
- Block Bonanza - Would-be explorers will have to use logic to solve this mind puzzle and load the gold blocks onto the ship.
- Pirates Cove - Destroy the other ships using your cannon!
- Pirate Spelling - Help Max the pirate teach his parrot new words with this spelling game.
- Notorious Places in Pyrate Lore - Information about different places which are linked to pirates.
- Port Royal, Jamaica - A famous pirate location, offering safe harbour for pirates in the past.
- Havana, Cuba - A place where pirates used to mingle!
- London and the Pirates - Find out what happened to the pirates in London.
- Pirate Map Lesson Plan - A lesson plan which asks pupils to investigate the places used by pirates along with their reasons for using them.
- What do pirates hate to get stuck in? TARRRRRRRRGHHHHHH! (from Rachel Orr)
- How do you know someone is a Pirate? Because they Arrrrrr! (from Kevin McLaughlin).
- What do pirates like to eat? Baaaarrrrrrr Be Que (from Kevin McLaughlin).
- Why are there never any headache tablets left for pirates? Because the paracetomol (from Kevin McLaughlin).
- How did the pirate get to work? A caaaarrrgh! (from Ms Bee).
- How much did the pirate pay to get his ear pearced? A Buccaneer! (from Ms Bee)
- Why does the pirate's phone go beep-beep-beep? He left if off the hook! (from Ms Bee)
- FunSchool Pirates - Lots of online activities including games, puzzles and crafts with a pirate theme.
- The Pirates Realm - A large collection of pirate games and activities.
- Pirates? - An animated story about pirates, which reads (and sings) the words to you! Suggested by Simon Haughton.
- TES Connect - A collection of ideas and resources from visitors to the TES site.
- Communication 4 All - Lots of pirate themed resources which are free to download.
- Pirates Ahoy! - A Literacy lesson plan linked to this topic.
- Twinkl - Pirate resources from the Twinkl team.
- Pirate Ship Display - An example of a wonderful display involving a pirate ship.
- Pirate Dictionary - Learn how to talk like a pirate with this dictionary. Suggested by Bev Humphrey.
- Mrs. Pancake - A selection of sea and pirate-themed resources. Suggested by Simon Haughton.
