Pirates

Expedition Date: March

Location: On the Spirit of Bermuda in Dockyard

Rainy Day Location: BUEI (Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute)

Expedition Description: All Aboard with P3 Pirates!

Ahoy, P3 crew! BEN invites your class aboard a historic Bermuda sloop for an action-packed expedition filled with pirate tales, nautical discovery and hands-on adventure. Students will explore the parts of a ship, learn key nautical vocabulary and discover life at sea through movement games, role-play, storytelling and interactive artefacts. Throughout the experience, pupils build confidence in speaking, listening and expressing their ideas clearly.

• Learn and use new nautical vocabulary (bow, stern, port, starboard, rigging)
• Describe objects using sensory and descriptive language
• Listen actively and respond thoughtfully
• 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 vocabulary 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 Pirates 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, flexible vocabulary activities encourage pupils to develop language through through small-group discussion, collaboration and creative thinking. Two additional independent writing tasks, linked to the theme of the unit, provide structured opportunities for pupils to apply new vocabulary in meaningful written contexts.

These resources ssupport oral language development, vocabulary growth, comprehension, and writing skills, while remaining easy to incorporate into short literacy blocks or small pockets of classroom time.