I Help Both Reluctant and Enthusiastic 8 to 13-Year-Olds Write Like Ninjas And Get Their 'Black Belts' In English!
What's On In Winter 2024...
Upcoming Small Group Sessions For Students Aged 9 to 11:
'Ninja Writer Skills Compression Session'
Intensive themed study session. Improve key writing techniques at pace.
5-Week Live Course: Write Fiction Like A Ninja!
'Write A Cracking Christmas Tale'
Create magical tales, relatable characters, descriptive focus scenes and happy endings
Live Saturday Writing Workshop For Years 5 and 6
Students master the generic features, styles and structures of FIVE fiction genres. BOOK EARLY!
Live Student Writing Workshop For Years 5-6
Live Student Study Group For Years 5-6
One-To-One Bookable Sessions
'Ninja Writer Skills Compression Session'
Intensive themed study session. Improve key writing techniques at pace.
'Spooktastic Stories'
Create magical tales, characters and happy endings
Live Student Writing Workshop For Years 5 and 6
Not just for Halloween! Master the art of suspense, tension and mystery:
Live Student Writing Workshop For Years 5-6
Live Student Study Group For Years 5-6
'Spooktastic Stories'
Meet Your Tutor:
Cassie O'Hanlon, M.A, P.G.C.E
Welcome to Hampton English Coaching!
With over 25 years of full-time teaching experience at the prestigious Hampton School, a top sixth-form college, and other great secondary schools, I know my subject and the skills your child needs to excel.
I have examined English exam scripts from 11 Plus to GCSE and A level. My experience makes me ideally suited to support your child on their creative journey.
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SIGN UP for December's Fun Weekend Creative Workshop: 'Craft A Cracking Christmas Tale!'
This sparkly and seasonal l writing class is ideal for young writers with fiendish imaginations! Suitable for ages 8 to 11. Let's think, plan and write a Christmas tale full of hope, mystery and magic...
It's the season of story writing and tales told around the fireside - but how well can your child entertain and engage their readers around! This Christmas season, give your child the gifts of harnessing their fiery imaginations and mastering the skills of creative writing by enrolling them in this fun live 1-hour writing workshop.
Replays, slides, a sample story pdf book, vocabulary sheets, reading lists and prizes are all included. Who will win the prize for the tale with the most hope? Grab your trusty pens, hot chocolates and notebooks and work your way through this great stand-alone online course...
Buy them this lovely illustrated Christmas story! It teaches students all about this heartwarming genre's history, style, plot structures, characters, and creative details.
Plus, it comes complete with a detailed list of recommended 'feel good' reading and is packed with exciting images bound to inspire and prompt your child with further writing ideas.
As many school English exams have story image prompts, this is a very useful little story.
BUY My Downloadable Christmas Tale To Inspire Your Child With Structures And Ideas
LET'S KEEP THEM WRITING OVER THIS SPOOKY SEASON...
'All About The Horror Genre' is a quick-to-download guide that teaches them about this fiction genre and its key generic features.
This unique guide to horror fiction, crafted in response to numerous parental requests, offers a comprehensive approach to recommended reading. Instead of a basic reading list, I've created full-text guides for each fiction genre AND a broader reading list for parents to share with their children. This resource can be explored independently by the child or used as a collaborative tool with parents. The result is a versatile guide that meets various learning styles and preferences.
My fiction genre guides and live-taught courses make your child far more confident with text types; they'll be more likely to write great horror, action, adventure, or mystery tales themselves because their knowledge of and confidence in different text styles and structures will be in place before writing. It's also ideal for enrichment, preparing them for their next academic stage.
This 'Write It Like A Ninja' Guide To Horror Fiction' is not just an educational resource; it's also a practical tool for school exams. It covers this spine-tingling genre's history, style, plot structures, characters, and creative techniques. The guide also includes a list of recommended horror reading and is enriched with captivating images to spark your child's imagination. Given the prevalence of story image prompts in school English exams, this guide is a particularly valuable asset for students, providing parents with the reassurance that it's not just about fun, but also about academic success.
My website offers other genre guides (Adventure, Murder Mystery, and Fantasy) for purchase.
Let's make their writing scarily good!
BUY MY DOWNLOADABLE GUIDE TO THE GOTHIC HORROR GENRE, WITH READING LISTS...
I HAVE OTHER FUN FICTION GENRE GUIDES AVAILABLE...CHECK OUT MY ONLINE STORE!
At Hampton English Coaching, I offer bespoke English tuition services for students aged 8 to 13.
I specialise in helping 10+ and 11+ students master their creative writing, breath of vocabulary and grammar.
With my master's degree in Shakespeare, there's nothing I love more than enabling younger students to enjoy and understand this talented playwright before the start of their GCSE journey.
Let's Go Live With More Structured Learning!
My signature 5-week live 'Write It Like A Ninja!' small-group creative writing course runs online over Saturday mornings throughout the year and is ideal for 9 to 12-year-olds who want to get 11-plus ready and improve their story writing.
Children who love the writing process and want some extra challenge and enrichment are also very welcome.
Advance-book this popular course HERE. Varied and themed Saturday morning boot camps are available throughout the year. I get them writing like ninjas!
Students do best when the process of reading and writing is made as varied and enjoyable as possible. Why can't their writing tasks be both enjoyable and stretching? Whether it's describing a day from the perspective of a five-pound note, updating a fairy tale, or writing a story in different genre styles, my students soon learn how to write like ninjas. By involving them in writing competitions, I help them become more confident and experienced writers.
Focussed Fun
Time To Enjoy English Again...
My signature 5-week live 'Write It Like A Ninja!' small-group creative writing course runs online over Saturday mornings throughout the year and is ideal for both 9 to 12-year-olds who want to get 11-plus ready and for keen writers who still want to improve their story writing further.
Advance-book this key preparation course HERE.
Other themed Saturday morning writing 'boot camps' are available during the year. Let's get them writing like ninjas! CLICK HERE to book a free 15-minute consultation with me.
Live Taught Modules
Multi-Sensory Learning
Helpful Multimedia With Live Teaching
Complex concepts can be easier to digest audiovisually. My guide to the differences between narrative and descriptive writing gives your child confidence in these key writing styles. Click opposite to watch. Complete this form to stay in touch and access other ninja writing freebies.
English Coaching As Unique As They Are...
My specialism is delivering high-quality online coaching to improve students' written work. I fine-tune their skills in an array of areas: grammar, vocabulary and synonymy, planning, writing, editing and exam techniques.
I have a long track record of helping students excel in numerous writing competitions, academic scholarships and writing projects.
Many students stay with me for several years, working through my learning modules and myriad extension challenges.
A small, friendly English tuition service for students aged 9 to 13
Varied And Visual Differentiated Teaching To Suit Each Student's Needs
Students thrive when the process of acquiring and applying demanding vocabulary is as enjoyable as possible. I update my Instagram and Facebook pages regularly with writing tips, my 'Wonderful Word Of The Week' and sample 'Story Films' based on interesting words, ideas or lines. This Halloween-themed film opposite was all created from the word 'rickety.' Click it to play.
Support For Neurodiverse learners and specific learning styles
NEW! My online English Resources shop has launched! It's packed with useful year 6 to 9 study materials, from practice papers to story image prompt packs, sample student stories to vocabulary sheets with sample sentences.
How else can you accelerate your child's progress in English? Help them become more confident with all the various styles and structures of different text genres, give them lots of image prompt materials to inspire their story ideas and show them good model samples of effective written work so that they can be inspired and see how a well-planned and clearly-crafted final piece of writing looks.
All these extras are available to buy below, with generous preview sections so that you have a good idea of what's inside. Pay online to receive the file by instant download. Let's get them reading and writing like ninjas!
My Materials Include:
Image prompt sets to inspire creativity and story ideas or to describe in detail. Use them for both!
Clear sample stories to guide and inspire student writers.
Vocabulary resources to boost written expression and heighten confidence as I include definitions and sentences including the new vocabulary.
Fiction genre guides to educate and enrich their grasp of different text genres likely to be set as comprehension extracts.
Grammar guides to sharpen technical accuracy.
My 10+ and 11+ practice English exam materials offer exam preparation, academic extension and enrichment. Suitable for most independent and grammar school applicants.
SIGN UP for October's Fun Weekend Creative Workshop: 'Spooktastic Stories'
This wickedly wonderful writing class is ideal for young writers with fiendish imaginations! Suitable for ages 8 to 11. Let's think, plan and write some fearsome fiction!
It's spookalicious! Help your child master valuable creative writing tricks n' treats this Halloween by enrolling them in this fun live spooktastic story 1-hour writing workshop. Replays, slides, a sample story pdf book, vocabulary sheets, reading lists and prizes are all included. Who will win the prize for the tale with most terror? Grab your trusty pens, crucifixes and notebooks and join Cassie live at 10 a.m on Zoom(bie), on either Saturday October 28th or Sunday October 29th. Together we'll create suspense-filled tales of powerful trouble and creative bubble! TO PRE-BOOK, CLICK BELOW:
Buy my illustrated 'Write It Like A Ninja' guide to horror fiction! It teaches students all about this spine-tingling genre's history, style, plot structures, characters and creative details. Plus, it comes complete with a detailed list of recommended horror reading and is packed with exciting images which are bound to inspire and prompt your child with further writing ideas. As so many school English exams have story image prompts, this is a very useful little book. More 'Write It Like A Ninja' story genre guides are being added to my website soon - all are available for pay and instant download.
This detailed and informative guide to horror fiction was written and designed by myself in response to many parental requests for recommended reading to help their child boost their literary knowledge and broaden their vocabulary. I was about to type up a basic reading list when I thought: Why not create full text genre guides AND a related wider reading list for parents to give their children? This could be read independently by the child or with parents. Result!
'All About The Horror Genre' is a quick-to-download guide and teaches them about the fiction genre and its key generic features. The 'Ninja Guides To Fiction Genres' series was born! (This is the first in the series and more will be added here soon.) 'Ninja Guides' make the students far more likely to write great horror, action, adventure or mystery tales themselves because they will already have a stronger knowledge of the different text types before starting exam tasks. Reading this great and affordable guide will make your child far more informed about literary styles, helping them write in those same styles with confidence and flair. Let's help them 'Write It Like A Ninja'!
BUY MY DOWNLOADABLE GUIDE To The Horror Fiction Genre, With Recommended Reads!
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Exciting Live Writing Courses
Enrol them on one of my replayable creative writing boot camps, such as 'Help Your Kids Write 11+ English Like An A* Ninja!' Workshops are always supported by a host of downloadable learning resources such as teacher's films, pdfs and audio files. I offer a range of free and paid-for short downloadable and replayable online and one-to-one online holiday courses. We've got it covered!
