Your child sits down to write a story and does not know where to start. This fixes that.

Story writing is the most common task in 11 Plus creative writing exams. It is also the task where the gap between a good response and a great one is most visible to examiners — and most fixable with the right teaching.

What the examiner is looking for

Examiners are not looking for a perfect story. They are looking for evidence of a writer who thinks about their craft — who opens with intention, builds with detail, varies their sentences and lands their ending with control.

Most children write stories that are competent. The Story Clinic teaches your child to write stories that are memorable.

How it works

Four writing assignments. Four personalised Editor’s Reviews. Expert video lessons on every aspect of story writing technique.

Your child watches the lesson, writes the assignment, submits it. Within 48 hours they receive a video from Joycellyn going through their work line by line — specific, encouraging, actionable feedback on their actual piece of writing.

By the fourth assignment the improvement is visible. Not just to you — to your child. And that confidence carries directly into the exam room.

What is included

Expert video tutorials on story writing technique — opening hooks, story structure, character, dialogue, pacing and endings

4 writing assignments with personalised Editor’s Reviews

Video feedback returned within 48 hours of submission

Model answers for every task

Who this is for

Children in Years 4–6 preparing for grammar school or independent school 11 Plus exams.

Particularly useful for children who can write but whose stories lack structure, originality or a sense of a writer’s voice behind them.