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Children’s Writing Clubs W/C 24th March

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What have we been up to this week? News reports for school clubs and tackling writers block OR Minecraft stories for Zooms!

Monday

Monday Zoom Club: This week we tackled writers block and writers struggles by talking about specific problems such as over-writing, under-writing, not planning enough, planning too much, lack of confidence, perfectionism and more. We all shared our struggles and discussed strategies for overcoming them! We also had some writing activities to try in order to help us, such as starting an ‘everyday quick writing’ notebook, and we had some general writing prompts on the theme of ‘memory’ to choose from. Well done everyone!

Monday CJS Club: This week we were writing news reports! The children could either choose a picture and then write the news report to go with it, OR they could play around with the headline word choices in order to construct their own wacky newspaper headline. Here are a few examples from the session:

Tuesday Zoom Club: More discussion, tips and plans to tackle writers struggles! In particular we were looking at over-writing and over-editing and not finishing stories. We made great progress in this group today with some new stories pushing forward and some old stories being recharged to try again! Fab work!

Tuesday Bransgore CofE Primary: More news reports using either picture prompts OR crazy headlines! Here are a few examples!

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Wednesday

Wednesday 11 plus Zoom Group: Due to holidays/illnesses we only had one young writer in this club today! That was okay though because I got to hear the battle scene piece she wrote from last week’s prompt which was absolutely superb! Battle scenes are tricky to do! There is a lot to think about, a lot of action and danger and emotion, and this was all covered beautifully! She went on to finish the piece and I am hoping it’s one we can publish in our anthology

Wednesday 8-11 Zoom Group: Today the younger group continued their Minecraft stories and made fantastic progress. One was even finished, so huge congrats to that young writer! Finishing a story is always a big achievement! Well done everyone!

Wednesday CJS Club: This group were working on news reports today and the responses were fantastic and incredibly imaginative. Here are some examples:

Children’s Writing Clubs W/C 17th March

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What did we get up to this week? Battle scenes and Minecraft stories for Zoom clubs, recipes and spells for school clubs!

Here is where you will find a weekly summary of everything we have done in our creative writing clubs this week. Simply scroll down to the day your child attends a club to find out what they got up to!

Monday

Monday Zoom Club: This week we are looking at battle scenes! We have already worked on pacing, as well as how to write an action scene, so this week we are tying all our knowledge up and writing battle scenes! These can involve small, one on one battles, or epic battles! We discussed several tips for writing battle scenes, such as making it clear when, where and why it is happening, ensuring we allow the battle to have high stakes, allowing the action to rise and fall, and making sure we consider the physical and emotional impact on the characters. There were some prompt choices to get them going and we had some amazing responses, as well as progress on on-going stories that needed a battle scene!

Monday CJS Club: Today we had a go at either writing silly/crazy recipes or magic spells! The idea was to create a list of both ingredients and the method. They could use pictures to help them come up with ideas. Here are a few examples of their work!

Tuesday

Tuesday 11 Plus Zoom Group: Some great work tackling battle scenes today, well done everyone. We also discussed the progress of the now finished group story and the editing process that’s begun. More on that soon!

Bransgore C of E Primary: recipes and spells today at Bransgore! We had a lovely mix of real recipes (I love the idea of the mug cake!) crazy/silly recipes, and spells for conjuring up all sorts of magic, such as making dogs talk, creating frogs, making dragons and more! Well done everyone! Here are a few examples.

Wednesday

Wednesday 11 Plus Zoom Club: Incredibly work from this dedicated bunch today! All tackled the battle scene prompts after listening to the tips and advice on how to write such a scene. Some of the pieces of work were also able to progress on-going stories. I was extremely impressed with this group today!

Wednesday 8-11 Zoom Club: The younger group asked to do Minecraft stories a few weeks ago, and what a fab idea! We kicked this off today by reminding ourselves that planning will help keep us on track. We quickly ran through what a story needs, ie. characters, setting, plot and theme/genre and I encouraged them to do a bit of a plan before starting. Everyone seemed very excited to tackle their own Minecraft story and one member of the group proudly exclaimed that she’d never written so much before! Wonderful ideas and a great work ethic today!

Wednesday CJS Club: Back to recipes and spells for the school club today. They really got stuck into this and we had real recipes for chicken chow mien, plus silly/crazy ones for flower soup, spells for making a unicorn, spells for creating an amazing book and much more. Well done everyone, we had a lot of fun! Here are just a few examples.