A Class Act

Plenty of children have ideas for a story. Turning them into clear sentences, a strong plot and the right exam format is the hard part.

A Class Act is a small English language centre in the Somerset area, set up by former MOE teachers and English Heads of Department. All its teachers have more than 10 years of teaching experience.

How the centre teaches

Classes have at most 10 students, written work is returned within a week, and parents receive feedback every fortnight. Lessons use in-house worksheets built around carefully chosen fiction and non-fiction texts, with grammar taught explicitly rather than picked up by chance.

Programmes

Building Blocks (Primary 1 and 2): 1.5-hour lessons on sentence building, grammar, vocabulary and early story elements, using relatable writing tasks
Writer's Skills (Primary 3 to 6): 2-hour lessons on creative and situational writing, comprehension and cloze, with plot development, characterisation and literary devices
Private lessons tailored to one child, subject to the teacher's availability
Be Inspired holiday workshops, built around the books of selected authors

Who it suits

Children who need help organising their writing, and those aiming to stretch beyond school-based compositions.

Want to see if it suits your child? Request a trial here: Brightly checks the centre's availability and gets back to you within 1 working day.