Through enthusiasm, encouragement, fun challenges and thoughtful feedback, Jotters will help your child fall in love with writing and feel excited to share their ideas out loud.

So many children say they don’t know what to write about. That’s never really true! All they need is a creative prompt and friendly guidance to help them think outside the box. Soon enough, they’ll be a dab hand at coming up with their own unique, original ideas.

As in any adult creative writing class, sharing work is key to the learning process. In a supportive, pressure-free, playful way, kids at Jotters will be encouraged to offer their work, and give one another helpful, considerate tips. It’s not a competition - everyone in the room is there to listen to one another!

Whilst the most important thing at Jotters is having fun, in order for your child to get to grips with writing a really good story, we will teach the nuts and bolts of practical writing skills, from story structure and characterisation, to dialogue and setting an exciting scene. The aim is to get a whole, cohesive story written from beginning to end, helping students feel proud of their achievement and for parents to enjoy reading it!

Through fun games (not boring tests!), kids at Jotters will see their vocabulary flourish and discover a new pleasure in using ‘grown-up’ words, poetic devices and sentence structure.

If a child falls in love with a story they’re writing, they will want to jot away all the time! Developing this dedication to writing is key to setting them up to one day achieving their goal of becoming a professional writer. Getting into the habit of a regular writing practice means they won’t be daunted by the task of one day writing something epic.