Expedition Date: March
Expedition Description: All Aboard with P3 Pirates!
Ahoy, P3 crew! BEN invites your class to climb aboard a historic Bermuda sloop for an action-packed expedition filled with pirate tales, nautical discoveries and hands-on adventure. During this immersive experience, students will step into the world of pirates as they explore the parts of a ship, learn authentic nautical vocabulary and uncover the fascinating life of sailors at sea. Through movement games like Captain’s Coming, dramatic role-play, storytelling and hands-on mystery objects from a pirate’s voyage, students will build confidence using rich descriptive language, listening carefully and explaining ideas in their own words.
• Learn and use new nautical vocabulary (bow, stern, port, starboard, rigging)
• Describe objects using sensory and descriptive language
• Listen actively and respond thoughtfully to others
• Explain ideas clearly in full sentences
• Participate in collaborative discussion and role-play
• Retell and reflect on new learning
Students will finish their voyage with a sea shanty, a new pirate name and a treasure chest of powerful words to take back to the classroom. This high-energy experience blends movement, imagination and purposeful talk, all set against the stunning backdrop of a historic Bermuda sloop.
A free copy of the Mentor Text is provided at the expedition: How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long
Vocabulary Voyage
The P3 Pirate thematic unit is built around the mentor text How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long, supporting ELA curriculum-aligned literacy learning alongside an experiential school visit with AgraLiving as part of the Horizons Programme.
The Vocabulary Voyage offers a set of optional resources designed to enrich language learning in an engaging and practical way. Three short vocabulary activities (approximately five minutes each) encourage pupils to develop language through small-group discussion, collaboration, and creative thinking. Two additional independent writing tasks, linked to the theme of the unit, allow pupils to apply new vocabulary in meaningful written contexts. These resources are designed to support oral language development, vocabulary growth, comprehension and writing skills, while remaining easy to incorporate into short literacy blocks or small pockets of classroom time.
Mentor Text
