What to expect from a Story Room workshop… 

Whether your child’s writing workshop is online or in person, all our workshop leaders have the following aims in mind:

• to develop your child’s confidence in writing
• to develop your child’s ability in writing
• to develop your child’s confidence to read out and deliver their work to a group
• for your child to have fun whilst learning.

Each child is unique and each workshop is unique. We are constantly on the hunt for new ways to engage your children in writing and for new workshop ideas.

Each workshop starts with inspiration! Depending on the subject matter of the workshop we may read some poetry, some extracts from stories/books or even a newspaper clipping. There may be objects and pictures to show or there may be music or video clips to share. In a  physical workshop setting, where possible, we can engage the children in using all of their senses, or even a walk in the garden to search for inspiration.

The children are then given writing task(s) to complete. This will be guided and help given where needed. Depending on the length of the workshop, the children will have a break. After break the children finish their writing, check it through and then read it out to the class. This is encouraged and we find the majority of children are eager to share their writing, but they are absolutely not obliged to do so and a ‘no’ is totally fine. 

If the children are taking part in an art and writing workshop they will create something linked the stories and poetry they write. 

We encourage the children to go away and read their stories  and poems to their friends and family and if they want to, to build on what they have written.

We look forward to meeting your children!