KS2 Creative Writing tutors
17 UK tutors who teach Creative Writing at KS2. £30–£100/hr · median £50
Creative Writing covers short fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and 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.
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 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.
Katherine C.
Oxford Graduate ✦ Former Leading London Prep School Teacher ✦ 17+ Years' Experience ✦ 11+, Creative Writing & Maths Specialist ✦
- Creative Writing
- Common Entrance
- Primary Education
- +7 more
Catherine W.
Qualified Primary Teacher (NPQLT) & Nurturing 11+ Specialist | In-Person & Online
- 11+ prep
- Creative Writing
- English
- +1 more
- SpLD
- ADHD & EF
- Processing & cognitive
- +1 more
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