Pirate Ships

This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to investigate and model how to compose different sets of instructions for pirates to follow when working on board a pirate ship. The class can identify how to use imperative verbs to initiate commands for each instruction.

Pirate Party Cakes
Read and follow a set of instructions about how to bake and decorate cakes for a party on board a pirate ship

Pirate Soup
Read, sequence and write a set of instructions about how to prepare a vegetable soup for the crew of a pirate ship to make and enjoy eating when at sea

Pirate Ship Crew
Read and write different sets of instructions that can be followed by the crew to perform tasks and jobs on board a pirate ship
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Sea Animals
Identify, describe and compare some of the different plants and animals that can be found living in a marine habitat including in the sea or on the beach
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Number Bonds to Twenty
Investigate and model how to use mental calculation techniques when working with concrete objects and diagrams to identify pairs of numbers that make sums to twenty
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Journeys Poems
Practise selecting powerful vocabulary words to use in poems that can describe some of the journeys made by families using different types of transport
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Special Places Poems
Practise composing and presenting poems using descriptive vocabulary to illustrate some of the special places that can be found in the world