Course Description

Love to Write helps students unlock their creativity and become confident, accurate writers. The course introduces a wide range of genres, including letters, reviews, diaries and stories, alongside writing tasks commonly encountered at school and in examinations.

Students learn to develop ideas, choose an appropriate voice and organise their writing for different purposes and readers. Topics range from picture-based stories and poetry to newspaper reports, persuasive articles and longer fiction, with attention to vocabulary, grammar and expressive techniques.

Learning Objectives

L1: All about me – sentence construction, punctuation marks, observation skills

L2: Picture writing – writing stories, diaries and letters based on pictures

L3: Narrative writing – writing short stories, similes and metaphors

L4: Introduction to different forms of writing – advertisement, article, descriptive, and expressive writing

L5: Descriptive Writing – showing not telling, character and setting description, five senses description, introduction to argumentative writing

L6: Components of a story – plot mountain, characters, setting, dialogues, argumentative and persuasive writing

L7: Writing in different genres – letters, picture writing, story-telling, debate, reviews

L8: Formal and informal writing – reports, reviews, blogs, flashbacks, types of essays

L9: Aimed at GCSE-level – with focus on transformative and synthesising skills

L10: Aimed at DSE-level – English DSE Paper 2 writing (Part A and B), Paper 3 Listening and Elective part