📣 Calling all aspiring writers!
Does your child love dreaming up worlds or creating captivating characters? They'll love the new Writer’s Academy.
Writer’s Academy holiday sessions are launching these September holidays.
Guided by an expert Writer’s Toolbox writing coach, these three-hour, small-group sessions will extend your child's creative ability, develop their narrative voice, and inspire them to take their skills to the next level.
We'll fire up their imagination with personal challenges, as we explore the narrative concepts of character and conflict.
Topics covered
- Fluency
- Precision
- Narrative structure
- Effective planning
- Establishing setting
- Crafting characters
- daily writing challenges
- eight powerful writing tools, including Sentence Builder and Paragraph Creator
- instant Feedback powered by Educational AI
- scope and sequenced Learning Journey to suit your child’s writing ability
- interactive quizzes and activities, instructional videos, and reading comprehension tasks.
Writer's Academy
Age groups: 9–12 (Intermediate) and 13–16 years (Senior)
Choose one session.
Requirements: Sign up before 20 September
Students must have access to an internet-enabled home device, speaker and microphone
Session times are in AEST. Advertised price is GST inclusive. The price for NZ participants is NZ$125, for all other participants the price is AU$125. Participants must have a home computer with internet access, Zoom access, speaker and microphone. Complete one registration form per attendee. Access to the online writing tool is granted only once payment is received and will remain active until midnight 31 October 2023. Payment must be made prior to 20 September. We reserve the right to change your session date and time or cancel if payment is late. Participants may log in 15 minutes prior to their scheduled session to get familiar with the online writing tool and ask the coach questions.