Writing Wizards Junior
The term where a year of writing practice becomes real independence.
Built around real excerpts and stories from beloved children's literature, this stage focuses on skills parents can actually see: students learn to build a specific, evidence-backed point, work out for themselves how an author achieves an effect, and explain the deliberate choices behind their own writing.
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Each year level works through a real book chosen to teach a specific skill, not just read for enjoyment. Year 1 starts with sentence-level basics; by Year 5, students write an extended, independent piece.
Every term splits in two: narrative writing in the first half, persuasive and exam-style writing in the second. Every homework submission gets individual, actionable feedback, not just a mark.
Tutors are 99.95 ATAR achievers, ex-scholars, or state ranks.
Every year level studies a real, well-loved book this term, chosen for its themes and craft. Select a year to see what they'll read and how the term is structured.
- Building the Blocks of a Great Sentence Joining ideas with "because," asking exciting questions, and adding a spark of energy with exclamation marks, the small tools that turn a flat sentence into an interesting one
- Playful Spelling Challenges Turning one thing into many, students play with plural spelling patterns as a fun puzzle rather than a rule to memorise
- Inventing Their Own Story As a class, students invent characters, give them a problem to solve, and guide them all the way to a happy ending, their very first taste of building a story together
- Two Good Reasons Students learn to back up an opinion with two solid reasons, closing the term with a celebration of everything they've learned to say and write this year
This term builds from the ground up. Students start with the smallest building blocks of a sentence, move into inventing their own characters and stories as a class, and finish by learning to back up an opinion with real reasons, ending in a celebration of how far they've come.
- A Story They Can Follow and Retell Dorothy's journey gives students a clear, step-by-step story shape (character, setting, problem, solution) they can recognise and reuse in their own writing
- Understanding Why Characters Want Things Each companion is missing something, a brain, a heart, courage, giving students a simple, memorable way into understanding character motivation
- Stories That Mean Something Talking about home and belonging, and the discovery that each companion already had what they were looking for, gives students their first taste of a story carrying a deeper message
- Their Own Journey Story Students write and illustrate their own short story about a character travelling toward a goal, then share it aloud in a small, supported group
Excerpts, not a full novel. Weeks 1–5 build narrative writing, weeks 6–10 build persuasive, exam-style writing. Each half ends in a timed piece, with homework set after every class.
- Showing, Not Just Telling Students look at how the swallow's growing care for the statue is shown through small actions rather than the author simply stating it, and practise this technique in their own writing
- Kindness and Sacrifice Connecting the story's themes of kindness and connecting across difference to the term's bigger picture on compassion
- What a Story Values Comparing what a society tends to value (money, comfort) against what the story asks the reader to value instead (generosity, loyalty), and putting that comparison into a short written argument
- Their Own Fable Students write an original short tale about a character who gives up something valuable for someone else, then explain aloud one deliberate choice they made in their writing
Excerpts, not a full novel. Weeks 1–5 build narrative writing, weeks 6–10 build persuasive, exam-style writing. Each half ends in a timed piece, with homework set after every class.
- Writing That's Actually Funny Comedy is treated as a real writing skill, timing, rhythm, escalating silliness, not an easier alternative to serious writing, and students study how the author sets up jokes that unravel exactly as the reader expects
- How a Joke Is Built Breaking comic scenes down into their setup, complication, escalation, and payoff, then using that same structure in their own stories
- Family and Working Together Looking at how the children's shared goal, and their commitment to each other, is what actually drives the plot forward
- Structured Paragraph Writing Students write short, structured paragraphs, making a point, backing it up with evidence from the text, and explaining why it matters, applied here to how the author gets a laugh
Excerpts, not a full novel. Weeks 1–5 build narrative writing, weeks 6–10 build persuasive, exam-style writing. Each half ends in a timed piece, with homework set after every class.
- Writing With a Real Argument Students move beyond simply summarising the plot, building specific, arguable points backed by evidence from the text, and explaining what the author is really getting at
- Logic and Nonsense Side by Side Looking at how Carroll builds a world with its own rules, and what Wonderland's topsy-turvy logic says about the ordinary adult world Alice has left behind
- Identity and Certainty Examining the story's constant changes to size, identity, and certainty as deliberate choices, and putting the effect of those choices into words
- Their Own Invented World Students write an extended piece set in a world with its own consistent, invented rules, then reflect on the choices they made and why
Excerpts, not a full novel. Weeks 1–5 build narrative writing, weeks 6–10 build persuasive, exam-style writing. Each half ends in a timed piece, with homework set after every class.
An exciting ice-breaker activity to stir curiosity, enhance engagement, and warm up your child's mind for the session. Fun trivia questions, or anything to get those neurons buzzing!
The theoretical aspects will be explained using our beautifully coordinated slides that simplify complex ideas. We break down difficult concepts into easy-to-understand nuggets of knowledge, making learning a breeze!
Once the concepts are clear, we dive into solving exercises under the guidance of our top-rated tutors, who have themselves achieved a 99.95 state ranking. The goal here is not to overwhelm with quantity, but to focus on quality.
We conclude the class by circling back to the key points discussed during the class. This crucial wrap-up phase ensures the consolidation and memorisation of all the main concepts covered, reinforcing your child's learning.
Students complete their writing homework at home during the week. Each writing homework submission receives structured, actionable feedback, customised to what your child actually wrote.
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