Author: Helena

About Helena

Helena Steel founded the Story Room in 2013 and has never looked back. She has tutored children for their 11-plus exams for the past 17 years and is a partner at www.succeed11plusmocks.co.uk She is in awe of children’s minds; how they can absorb and retain information, their brilliant creativity and how they can improve across the whole curriculum (including foreign languages, science and maths) with a little help with their English. She studied Law at UCL, is a qualified solicitor, a published poet and has been a judge on the BBC 500 words competition.She has helped hundreds of children gain entry to schools including; City of London (girls and boys), St.Pauls, Dame Alice Owens, Latymer, Henrietta Barnet, Queen Elizabeth Boys, Haberdashers (girls and boys), St Albans, Channing, St Michael’s Catholic School, U.C.S, Dubai College (U.E.A), Sevenoaks, Highgate, Merchant Taylor, Benedeen, North London Collegiate, Highgate, Mill Hill, Palmers Green High, St John’s (Enfield), Queenswood, Haileybury and more...

  Specialist Eye Care for Children with Reading Difficulties Dear friends, I wanted to reach out to you and inform 
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  The BBC Young Writers’ Award What? Now in its ninth year, the BBC Young Writers’ Award with Cambridge University 
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Dear Year 5 parent, Here are all the SUCCEED courses and mocks in one place for you. They are all 
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Hi Story Room writers, Ana Lim wants to share with you how she came to write and publish her first 
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BOOK CLUB – OCTOBER 2022 Dear Kathy Weeks,  We recently read Harper Drew, Talent Show Takeover in our Book Club 
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This article in the Guardian was shared with me by my colleague Michelle. I found myself cheering Michael Morpurgo on 
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Dear Roger, We hope you are well. Bad Bad Cats was our book club choice this month. For some children 
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“Piensa a la izquierda, piensa a la derecha, piensa abajo y piensa arriba. ¡Oh, todo lo que puedes pensar sólo 
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The Story Room was delighted to receive this special blog from poet,  Joseph Coelho, author of Werewolf Club Rules, Overheard 
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Pelican by Celia Warren I like this poem because it is about words. We think it is about Pelicans or 
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