Igniting Writing: Why it Matters in 2024 In July 2023, the National Literacy Trust published a report entitled, Children and Young People’s Writing in 2023. The report summarises the findings from their 2023 Annual Literacy Survey, which was completed by 71,351...
Why should your child join our creative writing courses? Children study English often every day at school so why are our creative writing courses so important? In the latest national Key Stage 2 assessment results published in July 2024, 72% of pupils met the...
What are the writing genres and their features in Key Stage 2? Here are the main writing genres your children will learn during primary school education and their key features: Narrative/Story Writing: Story start, build up, problem and resolution. Characters,...
Assessing Children’s Writing and Raising the BAR How best to assess a child’s writing level has long been a source of debate. The 2014 National Curriculum for primary level English splits writing into three main categories: Transcription (spelling and handwriting)...
10 Summer Holiday Creative Writing Ideas for Key Stage 2 Here are a few ideas to keep your children writing over the summer holidays! Happy writing! My Favourite Summer Memory: Write about your most cherished memory from a past summer holiday. Describe the...
11 Plus Creative Writing Tasks List The questions your child might be asked in an 11+ creative writing assessment is endless but here is a list which you could use to guide you. These tasks are all taken from real 11+ papers, from schools including Latymer Upper, St...
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