Can you write a prediction about what you think might happen next? Try not to peep at the rest of the video – we really want you to use your imagination to make upa pirate adventure that could happen at this point in the story. English: Here are some words linked to the our story The Pirate Cruncher: booty, bellowed, trudged, sneered, shanty, loot, fiddler, unfurled. Draw a picture of each to show what they mean. Challenge: Can you write synonyms for each word?

I would love to see your completed work. You can send me pictures of your work or anything else you would like to show me. Shiver me timbers!” laughed Captain Purplebeard, “You should know by now that never ever can a pirate have enough treasure. If there’s a beast it better beware, I can smell the gold we’re nearly there.” At one point in the story, one of the members of the crew disappears. Write about what happened to him.Maths: Answer these subtraction questions. Think about which strategies are best to use for each (fingers or dienes) The Pirate-Cruncher' is a superb tale of skulduggery on the high seas in which Captain Purplebeard, of Penzance, and his motley crew set out to find treasure hidden on an island in the middle of the ocean. I can imagine a ship-load of treasure” roared Captain Purplebeard, “Diamonds and rubies and gold beyond measure.” You scruvy sea dog!” bellowed the Captain “Be it made up or monstrous, it’s no match for me. I’m Captain Purplebeard, scourge of the sea.” In maths, the term capacity is used when measuring how much liquid fits inside a container. It is measured in millilitres (ml) and litres (l) .

English:Write a character description of Captain Purplebeard from the Pirate Cruncher. Can you describe what he looks like (beard, hair, face, clothes) and his personality? Enquiry: We are comparing the experience of passengers on the Great Western Railway. Look at the pictures of the different carriages in the gallery below and infer which was first class and which was third class. Then can you sort the descriptions into the correct class on the table? Enquiry: Use this video in the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zovFQQ2SwBc and pictures in the gallery below to infer how people felt about the Great Western Railway being built. Write a sentence explaining how you think they felt and why.As they clamboured ashore no one saw a thing wrong, too busy to heed the fiddler’s last song. “Off you go boys but I think I’ll stay here, I doubt what you’ll find will bring you much cheer. For a pile of old metal, you don’t really need has brought on a dangerous case of greed! And being greedy you know is wrong which bring me at last to the end of my song!” Go home!!” roared Captain Purplebeard, “I’ll keelhaul you all, you cowardly landlubbers! The only thing you need to be frightened of is me!”

All was unusually quiet in Port Royal, but if you listen carefully on the quay side, down the alleyways and in the candle-lit taverns, you could hear the faint sound of a fiddle floating on the wind. >Outside the Thirsty Parrot Inn an old fiddler appeared, and as he fiddled he sang a song. “I was sailing one day and what did I see? An island of gold in the scurvy sea! With a fiddle-dee-dee there’ll be treasure for me. Fiddle-dee-dee, across the sea.” You could draw a picture for each pirate in your jotter and write their character profiles alongside them.

By thunder! That sounds just like our sort of plunder or my name ain’t Purplebeard of Penzance. Finish your grog lads – we set sail at once!” Year 6 :- Missing from the group photograph are Tia and Jenson. Lucas / Most books. Freya/ Best effort and Sam / Top points 👏👏👏

Purplebeard hears of the treasure through a fiddler who roams through the dark and nasty streets of Port Royal singing a ditty that mentions the treasure. Once he hears the ditty and the fiddler unfurls a map of the location, Purplebeard sets his heart on owning 'a SHIPLOAD of treasure' and gathers together his men who are also hungry to get at the hidden wealth.

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