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KS2 Creative Writing tutors

8 UK tutors who teach Creative Writing at KS2. £40–£100/hr · median £48

Creative Writing covers the disciplines mainstream English Literature deliberately sets aside: short fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, scriptwriting for stage and screen. It appears as a strand within English Language at GCSE and A-level (where it carries real weight in the writing papers), as part of EPQ projects, and as a standalone Open University and adult-learner discipline. Tutoring helps most with the workshopping habit: close reading of drafts, line-edit feedback, and the structural craft (point of view, voice, scene vs summary) that schools often don't teach explicitly. Look for tutors with published or produced work in the form they're teaching, ideally with workshop or MA-style facilitation experience rather than just 'writes themselves'.

Key Stage 2 covers Years 3 to 6 (ages 7-11), ending with the Year 6 SATs in maths, reading, and grammar/punctuation/spelling (SPaG). It's where most primary-to-secondary academic gaps are formed and where tutoring demand peaks at primary level. Year 6 SATs aren't life-or-death but they affect set placement at secondary in many schools, and the reading paper specifically (fast comprehension under time pressure) is where most students lose ground. Tutoring helps most with timed reading practice, with the SPaG technicalities (which are taught explicitly and reward precise terminology), and with the maths reasoning papers. 11+ prep overlaps Year 5 and Year 6.

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