Preparation • Prepare all of the resources ready and decide upon your pirate themed activities.

Main Activity • Split the children into pirate teams (the number in each will be dependent on your group number.) To do

this, you could give all children a coloured counter as a pirate coin. Blue = sneaky sapphires; red = rogue rubies; yellow = golden grubbies. Picture cards for groups are provided if you wish to use them (scroll down.)

• Their first job is to make a pirate camp or pirate ship using natural resources such as logs, branches and sticks. (If you have little resources, you may wish to provide some such as crates, tarpaulins and string. See Natural Shelters/ Role Play Shelters/ Experiential Building for tips and ideas.)

• Every time you shout, “Ahoy there me hearties, batton down the hatches!” the children have to return to their pirate ships/ camps and pretend to defend themselves from robbers!

• Once they have built their pirate ship/ camp, other Pirate role play jobs and activities could include: making a team pirate flag/ climbing a pirate ‘lookout tree’/ making pirate telescopes from cardboard tubes/ aiming mud cannonballs at a tree target/ walk the plank/ tying scarves together with reef knots (See Knots & Lashings: Reef Knot) to rescue men overboard/ scrub the decks or plank/ making captain’s rum/ using metal detectors to find pirate coins (See Outdoor Skills: Using a Metal Detector) / creating stick men crew from natural materials (See Invention & Investigation: Stick Man) / pirate swords from sticks (See Invention & Investigation: Stick Sword). • Remember to allow the children a chance to role play with the objects they have made during the

pirate themed activities, and also to come up with their own pirate games and activities. Differentiation: HA- Can the children use their imagination to create their own pirate role play games and activities? LA- Prompts for role play. Extension:

Pirate team games such as ‘pass the keys,’ or ‘nature’s prisoners,’ (see Team Building Activities)

Lesson Objectives Children will role play as pirates, making pirate camps from natural materials and carrying out pirate themed activities. Resources • Natural resources such as logs, branches, sticks. • Crates, tarpaulin, string & rope (optional) • Pirate team cards (scroll down) • red/ blue/ yellow counters • Various other resources depending on your chosen

activities (see below). Risk Assessments Generic Site RA; Stream Activities RA; Building Shelters RA; Activities involving Sticks RA; Activities involving String and Rope RA.

EYFS Links

PSED: Confident to speak in a group about their ideas. C&L: Expresses themselves effectively. PD: Moves confidently, safely negotiating space. L: Uses phonetic knowledge to decode words. M: Uses mathematical language to describe position. UW: Talks about features of their own environment. EA&D: Represents their own thoughts and ideas through role play.

Learning Outcomes

LA - Children can role play with others as

pirates.

MA - Children can role play with others as

pirates, showing creativity and imagination.

HA - Children can role

play with others as pirates, showing creativity and

imagination. They start to develop various skills

through themed activities and play.

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Sneaky Sapphires

Print, cut and laminate the Pirate Team Cards. The children could place them in their pirate camps/ ships once built. They

could also act as team colours or themes.

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Rogue rubies

golden grubbies

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These Jolly Roger pictures could be printed and used on telescopes, as cannonball targets, tied to pirate swords, or used to copy onto pirate flags.