Stickers, stories and sweets: using rewards to keep your child motivated to write
This article explores how parents can motivate children to keep writing without turning creativity into a chore. Many children start stories with excitement but quickly lose momentum because writing can feel difficult, frustrating, or overwhelming.
The article explains how small rewards such as sticker charts, treats, screen-time swaps, and celebrating milestones, can help children push through the challenging parts of the writing process. It emphasises the importance of rewarding consistency and effort, not just finished stories.
Most importantly, the article encourages parents to balance external rewards with intrinsic motivation by giving children choice, autonomy, and a supportive creative environment.
The core message: writing confidence grows through encouragement, consistency, and making storytelling feel joyful rather than stressful.
Screens vs. Pages: The Sensory Magic of Reading Physical Books for Kids
This article explores why physical books still play a vital role in children’s development in a screen-dominated world. While technology has its place, reading physical books offers a unique sensory experience that supports deeper learning, focus, and creativity.
Unlike screens, books engage multiple senses: touch, sight, and even smell, helping children build stronger memory, comprehension, and emotional connections to reading. Physical books also reduce distractions, allowing for deeper concentration and immersion in stories.
Reading from paper encourages patience, imagination, and descriptive thinking, all of which are essential for strong writing skills.
The core message: balancing screen time with physical books helps children become more focused, creative, and confident readers and writers.
Conscious storytellers: helping kids write about big topics like diversity and the environment
This article encourages parents to support children in exploring big, real-world topics such as climate change, diversity, and social justice, through creative writing.
Rather than shielding children from complex issues, storytelling provides a safe and powerful way for them to process what they observe and feel.
Through writing, children develop empathy by stepping into different perspectives, while also building critical thinking and confidence. Creative writing helps them move from passive observers to active thinkers, using imagination to explore solutions and express their ideas.
We won an award! “Most Innovative Creative Writing Club”
Our Creative Writing Club has been named the “Most Innovative Creative Writing Club – East London” in the Greater London Enterprise Awards 2022.