Upcoming Courses

Bright Light Education are leading the tutoring industry in creating effective, inspiring and successful courses for children.
✏️ Our courses are created by qualified and experienced teachers, with specialisms ranging from phonics through to the 11+ examinations.
✏️ Our courses are delivered by qualified and experienced teachers, passionate about supporting children.
✏️ Our courses are online, allowing children from all over the world to access them.
✏️ Our courses have a maximum of 6 children, as we strongly believe this is the perfect balance for sharing ideas together as well as allowing for individual attention.
✏️ Our courses are fully interactive, to ensure children are engaged and learning throughout.
✏️ Our courses include homework, which is individually marked with constructive feedback.
✏️ Our courses include a pre-recorded video for any child who misses a class.
✏️ Our courses are monitored and evaluated; we ensure our clients are happy throughout the duration of the course.

Year 2 Creative Writing Club

This 12-week course is perfect for 6-7 year olds who want to embark 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 developing their reading and writing skills by writing for different purposes, using Hotel Flamingo by Alex Milway to support their learning. Topics in this course include letter writing, persuasive writing, diary writing, information texts, comic strips and writing a newspaper article.

£360 (£30 per 1 hour lesson)

Year 3 Creative Writing Club

This 12-week course is perfect for 7-8 year olds who want to embark on their creative writing journey!

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)

Years 2-3 Desert Island Discovery

This 5 session course is perfect for 6-8 year olds who want to write an adventure story!

This five-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. 

£150 (£30 per 1 hour lesson)

Years 4-6 Amazing Amazon Adventure

This 5 session course is perfect for 8-11 year olds who want to write an adventure story!

This five-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. 

£150 (£30 per 1 hour lesson)

Years 4-6 Core Skills and Story Writing Course (including 11+ preparation)

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)

Years 4-6 11+ Creative Writing Tasks (Fiction)

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 (fiction) task within the lesson. We specifically focus on both characterisation and setting descriptions, as well as showing children how to structure their written piece. 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)

Years 4-6 Writing for Different Purposes (including 11+ preparation)

This 12 week course is perfect for 8-11 year olds who want to improve their writing skills, 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 practice 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)

Years 4-6 Comprehension Course (including 11+ preparation)

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)

Years 4-6 11+ Interview Workshop and Mock Interview

11+ Interview Workshop
– Online 1.5 hour workshop for any child wishing to prepare for an 11+ interview as part of a school entrance examination.
– 6 children in the group.

£48

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

£54

English Skills Courses for Home-Schooled children

We run 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 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)