Shiver me timbers! Landlubbers force to pay up
PIRATES pillaged Peases West Primary School this week.
Staff and students at the school sang shanties and recreated life on the open sea during a week of activities based on their theme of the term the Caribbean.
Teachers became captains and pupils became shipmates and they learnt how to cook traditional Caribbean food including beef and chicken jerky.
They also built a pirate ship and enemy whale out of wicker and designed tools for pirates to help find the treasure chest.
Artist Fiona Gray also visited the school to create a wall-hanging and sixth form pupils from Wolsingham Community College spent an afternoon working with the children.
Any landlubbers visiting the school were threatened with a walk off a plank if they didn’t donate to the Grace House North East Children’s Hospice Appeal. Six families from Billy Row will take part in a pirate themed sponsored run in Durham on Sunday, June 21, to raise more money for the charity.
In a cracking Cornish seafaring accent, Headcaptain Judith Stirk said: “Argh, me hearty, you either add to our treasure chest or have to walk the plank. It’s a great charity but that is only part of what we are doing.
“We like to do things differently at Peases West so the whole week will be geared around pirates which links to our theme this term about the Caribbean.
“Everyone has really got into the theme of it and there aren’t landlubbers left at the school now.”