Creative Writing Club
“I learnt that A good story begining usually starts in the middle of unexplained events”
the power of Storytelling
At Dorothy Stringer School, we run fortnightly workshops on creative writing, storytelling and artistic expression. The content of these sessions has been diverse: we have explored how to plot a narrative, delved into descriptive writing, developed skills in character creation, and interrogated the dynamics of tension in a scene.
The ultimate object – after various prompts, classroom discussions and the formulation of ideas – is a 20-minute free-flow of creating.
How Students Benefit
Pupils work not only in prose but across mediums, often enjoying to draw, use mixed media design and to test a range of materials, from paint to playdough. Many pupils build on their work across sessions, collating together their pieces in a journal which depicts a continuous story or which maps out plans for their own writing at home.
When asking for feedback from a cohort, pupils have appreciated the workshops as “laid-back but not boring or slow” and have said they “liked every single thing!” Three of the pupils also mentioned they were “more confident” in their work now than they were before our sessions.