Topic WB 11/05/20 This week’s topic is Pirates! There is so much fun you could have with this topic. Have a look below for some exciting ideas to spark off their imagination. Parents this is your chance to show off your creativity side and plan some amazing tasks for your child/ren. All the resources in bold have also been attached so you can use them as templates. Remember you can access a site called twinkl.com for free which has lots of resources on for all our topics.

Discover an ancient map leading the way to lost, buried treasure near your house! You may like to use a Treasure Map Template as a starting point. Follow the map and ask the children to lead the way, inside and outside. Fill an old box or chest with precious stones, gold coins, keys and interesting jewellery to spark their imaginations and prompt lots of discussion and play. Then ask the children to design their own treasure map. Can they use vocabulary such as left, right, forwards, backwards, clockwise or anti-clockwise.

Discover an amazing locked treasure chest in your house, but where is the key? Have fun thinking about the variety of treasure that could be hidden within and ask where the treasure might have come from. Can they write about what is in the chest and where it might have come from. Use these Treasure Hunt Clues to find the key and unlock the treasure. This could be sweets, small gifts, gold coins, glass pebbles or rocks painted gold. Use a large box or role-play structure to create an a amazing pirate ship area for super pirate imaginative play! Make sure you include a space for a beam or a bench for ‘walking the plank’ over shark-filled waters (blue sheet with cardboard fins). Ask your child to write a character description about the pirates who are onboard the ship.

Create your own ‘Wanted’ Posters for the terrible pirate, Blackbeard! Create a ‘crime scene’ where he has come into the house and stolen something precious – like the toy or trophy. He may have left some evidence of being there: sandy footprints, parrot feathers or a skull and crossbones flag. He may have even left a Ransom Note! Explore what he may look like and how he behaves. Will there be a reward when he is found? Will they have to ‘walk the plank’? Ask your child to write a reply to the ransom note. There are also plenty of other resources this week. -character description for a pirate -design a new flag for your pirate ship -you could write a message to put into a bottle

Remember to send in any photographs or work to hw@tonacliffe.lancs.sch.uk