Pirates Online continues to be a very successful and enjoyable project! For those of you who haven't yet walked the plank we are delighted to be able to offer the project again in the Summer.

The aim of the project is to make use of the exciting and highly entertaining Shoofly poetry collection entitled ‘The Pirate's Chest and Other Body Parts’, which can be accessed through Nortle. Some schools may wish to take this further and base a half term's work around this creative and cross curricular resource.

Anne Curtis, the director and creative genius behind Shoofly, has provided us with the scripts for the sessions and our team will run 6 online sessions for schools.

Schools access the online sessions using Learn Online and each will be around 20 minutes long.

The online session commences with an introduction, responding to pupils and teachers and sharing pupils work. Then there is a video episode from the fearsome Bonny Annie and finally tasks are set to be completed before the next session.

Aimed at Key Stage 1 and lower Key Stage 2, each session covers a range of different writing styles and is supported by additional activity materials for each week.

If you want to get involved email Sue.Wild01@northumberland.gov.uk with your name, school, year group and the name of your scurvy crew!