Years 2-3 Creative Writing Club: Smashing Story Skills

This 12-week course is perfect for children embarking on their creative writing journey!

In the first 6-weeks of the club, the children focus on developing their vocabulary and writing skills. Topics in this course include colour adjectives, appearance adjectives, feelings and senses, weather descriptions and how to include these skills to develop a story. In the second 6-weeks of the club, the children focus on writing for different purposes, using Hotel Flamingo by Alex Milway to support their learning. Topics include letter writing, persuasive writing, diary writing, information texts, comic strips and writing a newspaper article.

£360 (£30 per 1 hour lesson). Ages 6-8 years.

Years 2-3 Creative Writing Club: Imaginative Ideas

This 12-week club focuses on the wonderful device, “Show Don’t Tell” to describe emotions, the weather and settings. Each week, the children will add to their “Ideas Book”, learning how to create descriptive sentences based on a theme, using ambitious vocabulary and figurative language to strengthen the imagery in their writing. The children will practise creating similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, alliteration and onomatopoeia as well as practising how to develop their sentence structures through powerful adjectives, adverbs and verbs. 

£360 (£30 per 1 hour lesson). Ages 6-8 years.

Years 2-3 Creative Writing Club: Superhero Storytellers

This 12-week club focuses on plot writing. Without a plot, there is no story. Through the wonderful theme of superheroes, the children will learn how to write an exciting and gripping storyline. Who will their superhero be? How did they develop powers? Do they have a weakness? What happens when a terrible crime is committed in the city by their arch-enemy? The children will learn the challenging but immensely fun skill of comic writing within some of the lessons to help them develop a detailed plot, alongside writing their full length superhero short story.

£360 (£30 per 1 hour lesson). Ages 6-8 years.

Years 2-3 Cracking Comprehension Club

This 12-week club focuses on developing children’s reading skills and teaching children how to understand and analyse a piece of text. Reading is not just about being able to decode words on a page. Developing a child’s comprehension skills enables them to make connectives, draw inferences and evaluate information. It encourages children to appreciate the written word, giving them further inspiration to develop their own writing skills. Within the course, children will be exposed to a range of texts and will be taught how to respond to different questions based on the text. They will also develop their creative writing skills, using the comprehension text as a prompt for a writing idea.

£360 (£30 per 1 hour lesson). Ages 6-8 years.

Years 2-3 Creative Writing Club: Aspiring Authors

In this 12-week course, children learn to write their very own adventure story. Whilst reading Mr Penguin and the Lost Treasure each week, the children learn how to write character and setting descriptions using skills and techniques such as figurative language, senses, ambitious vocabulary and Show Don’t Tell. They also learn how to map out and plan a story from beginning to end, ensuring a clear storyline.

£360 (£30 per 1 hour lesson). Ages 6-8 years.

Years 4-6 Creative Writing Course: Core Skills and Story Writing Course (11+)

This 12 week course is perfect for 8-11 year olds who want to improve their writing skills. Within this course, our Creative Writing Skills book is used.

In the first six sessions, we focus on learning different skills or techniques, including mastering figurative language, using the Show Don’t Tell technique, and learning how to build suspense effectively.In the second six sessions, we focus on learning how to structure a story, including describing the character and setting, as well as learning how to create a powerful story starter and first paragraph.

£540 (£45 per 1.5 hour lesson). Ages 8-11 years.

Years 4-6 Creative Writing Course: Writing for Different Purposes (11+)

This 12 week course is perfect for 8-11 year olds, specifically focusing on writing for different purposes and tackling non-fiction tasks.

Alongside the course, the children will read “The Boy at the Back of the Class.” Each week, the children will practise a different style of writing. This includes: recount writing; playscript; discursive writing; autobiographical writing; writing the next chapter; formal persuasive letter writing; descriptive writing; newspaper report writing; ending the story; book analysis and writing a story.

We recommend children have completed our Core Skills and Story Writing Course before this course, although it is not essential.

£540 (£45 per 1.5 hour lesson). Ages 8-11 years.

Years 4-6 Creative Writing Course: Creative Writing Tasks (11+)

This 12 week course is perfect for 8-11 year olds who want to improve their writing skills, specifically focusing on tackling 11+ creative writing tasks.

Each week, the children focus on responding to an 11+ creative writing task within the lesson.  The children will re-cap vital creative writing skills, including improving grammar and vocabulary as well as using effective language devices. 

We recommend children have completed our Core Skills and Story Writing Course before this course, although it is not essential.

£540 (£45 per 1.5 hour lesson). Ages 8-11 years.

Years 4-6 Comprehension Course (11+)

This 12 week course is perfect for 8-11 year olds who want to improve their comprehension skills.

Within this course, children learn the skills needed in order to respond to comprehension papers. This includes: 
– An Introduction to Comprehension (2 weeks)
– Character Analysis (2 weeks)
– Evaluation Questions Part 1 (2 weeks)
– Evaluation Questions Part 2 (2 weeks)
– Poetry (2 weeks)
– Summary (2 weeks)

£420 (£35 per 1 hour lesson). Ages 8-11 years.

Years 4-6 Advanced Comprehension Course (11+)

This 12 week course follows on from our Year 4-6 Comprehension Course. It is ideal for those children who would like to extend their learning in comprehension as well as consolidate what they learned in the first course. It is ideal for 11+ preparation.

Within this course, children continue to learn the skills needed in order to respond to comprehension papers. 

£420 (£35 per 1 hour lesson). Ages 8-11 years.

11+ Interview Preparation Course

This three session course is for any child wishing to prepare for an 11+ interview as part of a school entrance examination. There will be a maximum of 8 children in the group. The course uses our 11+ Interview Practice Skills Book throughout. This must be purchased before the course starts. 

£105. Ages 8-11 years.

1:1 11+ Interview Preparation and Mock Interview

We offer a 1:1 “11+ Interview Preparation and a Mock Interview” session to individual students. This session includes a 1.5 hour interview preparation session and a 20 minute Mock Interview.

£150. Ages 8-11 years.

11+ Mock Interview

– Online twenty minute 1:1 mock interview.
– It is recommended to take this after the Interview Preparation Course.
– After the interview, written detailed feedback will be sent via email.

£54. Ages 8-11 years.

Holiday Course: Desert Island Discovery

This 5-session course provides a wonderful opportunity for children to write their own adventure story, with guidance along the way. They will create some wonderful characters, who find themselves drifting to an uninhabited desert island on a family holiday. What problems will they encounter? How will they return back to safe land? Each session, the children will write a different section of their story, together with practising literary devices and developing a rich vocabulary. 

It is a fun-filled, interactive session, where the children have the opportunity to create their very own adventure story!

£160. Ages 6-8 years.

Holiday Course: Amazing Amazon Adventure

This 5-session course provides a wonderful opportunity for children to write their own adventure story, with guidance along the way. They will create a wonderful character, who finds themselves immersed in the Amazon rainforest, battling against various encounters and desperate to reach their goal. Will they succeed? Each session, the children will write a different section of their story, together with practising literary devices and developing a rich vocabulary. It is a fun-filled, interactive session, where the children have the opportunity to create their very own adventure story! 

£160. Ages 8-11 years.

Daytime English Skills Classes

We run daytime English classes throughout the year for homeschooled children. They are also popular for children in Asia, who can access the classes as an after-school English lesson. Our courses cover creative writing, comprehension, spelling, punctuation and grammar, loosely following the national curriculum for each age group.

English Skills 1 – Year 3 (7-8 year olds)
English Skills 2 – Year 4 (8-9 year olds)
English Skills 3 – Year 5 (9-10 year olds)
English Skills 4 – Year 6 (10-11 year olds)
English Skills 5 – Year 7 (11-12 year olds)
English Skills 6 – Year 8 (12-13 year olds)

Children from Low Income Households

Free Spaces for children from low income households

Is your Years 4-6 child eligible for free school meals (FSM) and as a result, their school in receipt of pupil premium funding? This only applies to children at schools in England. If so, we would love for your child to attend our Igniting Writing Course. We work with volunteer tutors to deliver a limited number of courses for free, specifically for children on Free School Meals.