Story Writing Course
Saturdays 2.20-3.20pm, £37.50
Over a period of five weeks, we will cover the basics of writing a short story, from finding ideas to developing characters and plot. We will also look at use of language and descriptive techniques. Suitable for aged 7+.
Spring Term:
6th January – 3rd February (5 weeks)
24th February – 24th March (5 weeks) (FULL)
Summer Term:
21st April – 19th May (5 weeks)
10th June – 7th July (5 weeks)
Writer Buds
Saturday 3.40-4.40pm, £75
A new group specifically for children aged 7+ years, designed to focus on a different aspect of writing each term, all based around a set theme.
Spring Term:
6th January – 24th March (10 weeks)
We’ll start off with a snowy theme, then move on to Spring, new life and growth, with the focus on a comic book style of writing, followed by scripts. The aim of this term will be to produce a set of stories, complete with images or illustrations (no artistic skills required), as well as our own mini play!
Summer term:
21st April – 7th July (10 weeks)
Starting the term with the theme of sports, we’ll move on to all things holiday as the weather (hopefully) gets warmer. Beginning with some journo-style writing (we’ll do some match reports and some ‘interviews’, for example), we’ll progress to short-form writing, poetry and maybe even some songs!
Young Writers
Saturdays 5-6.30pm
This is an on-going, fortnightly writers group designed for older children (year 6 and upwards) to develop their story-writing technique and share their work with like-minded children of a similar age.
Please contact me if you are interested in this group: storymakers@nikkiyoung.co.uk