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Sailing into imagination: A look at Swallows and Amazons through Drama

KS 2
Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons has been capturing young imaginations since the 1930s. It takes us into a world of sea-faring adventure, in which adults are pirates and messengers and in which young people make and negotiate their own rules. The children in the story create and sustain characters and situations, and as such this makes a fantastic springboard for students to do the same in the classroom.

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