Once upon a time there was a little girl who lived in a village by the sea. Her name was Daisy. One day she decided to go for a walk along the beach.  She walked along the stones at the bottom of the grassy bank to get to the snowy, white, sanded beach.  She decided to dig. She dug and dug and dug until she hit a treasure chest with gold and jewels inside it!

SUDDENLY…

….. as Daisy was holding the sparkling jewels in her hands, she saw some mean and scary pirates running towards her on the beach. The pirates were waving their sharp cutlasses  and they were shouting

“AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRHHHHHH !”

Daisy ran and ran and the pirates were so fast at running that they captured Daisy.

Daisy screamed “ HELP!   HELP!  HELP!  You are naughty, bad pirates!”

But nobody heard her calling.  The mean and bad pirates got her and then they took her to their pirate ship and tied her up!

A boat was sailing nearby and a girl captain heard her shouting.

“Don’t worry I’m coming to save you”.

The Captain said to her friends “There’s a little girl on a pirate ship and she needs rescuing. Shall we go out and rescue here and bring her back to shore?”

“We’ll wait until the pirates are asleep and swim over to the pirate ship and then we’ll climb the ladder and be very quiet so that the pirates don’t hear us.

When we’re on the pirate boat we have to tip-toe and whisper and please creep.   If you see a pirate you must hide. Don’t forget your torch.  Don’t shine your torch into the pirates’ window, you might wake them up.”

That night they swam over to the pirate ship…

….and climbed up the anchor rope, whispering all the way. When they were on the ship, they rolled out the anchor. It went down into the sea with a big SPLASH! The pirates were in a deep sleep, snoring in their hammocks, but their parrot woke up squawking loudly, “People attacking the ship! People attacking the ship!”

The girl captain and her sailors turned off their torches and hid on the deck. The pirates stumbled onto the deck, the girl captain shouted, “Attack!”

The sailors all jumped out and shone their torches in the pirates’ faces. The pirates were blinded and ran around madly and fell over the side into the water. Poor Daisy saw all this as she was still tied up and the girl captain untied her. Daisy was worried about the pirates as there was a shark in the water.

“We must save the pirates,” she said.

They put some food on the anchor for the shark. The shark swam to the food and the pirates clambered up the anchor rope back onto the boat. The pirates were so happy to be saved and were very sorry for taking Daisy’s treasure and tying her up.

They wanted to say thank you – “Let’s have a party!” they said.

 by Reception pupils

from  Sheen Mount, Lowther and Stanley primary schools