We are now endeavouring to build on the excellent foundation Arvon has provided. The English teachers are now able to use their own writing in their professional practice and influence others.

Head of English, Walker Technology School


School groups usually produce an anthology of work during their week and after the course, groups will often re-design the anthology to include photos or other illustrations.

By the end of your time at the centre you will probably also have a number of ideas of how you want to use the week's work to build upon and enhance the benefit of the writing week. Some groups hold readings or performance evenings for parents and other members of the community. This is often an opportunity to formally “launch” the anthology and the young writers. The anthology may become the first of a series of regular in-house poetry/writing magazines or journals which keep all the students focused on continuing to write.

The Writing Room

 "It provides students with continuing support and gives personal access to resources and stimuli, as well as a sense of belonging to a wider writing ‘community’ which included published writers."
Teacher, Chantry High School

The Writing Room is an online space that encourages young people to keep writing after their Arvon week.

Each young person that attends an Arvon Schools course is given their own log-in to access the Writing Room, where they can upload and publish their work, read interviews with published authors, try out writing exercises and receive feedback on the work they submit.
Teachers have often found these writing exercises to be useful for inspiring pupils in lessons and creative writing groups.

Other activities 

In addition to these activities you might like to place extracts of writing or poems with the local press and they might be encouraged to provide a regular slot for young writers.

In other areas the local radio might be a suitable forum for pieces, particularly if you or they can provide a background piece to place the reading in a context. Stations might even be persuaded to offer a regular slot to showcase new writing by local young people.

Alternatively, posters of writing or poems could be distributed around school and also through local community venues. Remember, any activity which helps to sustain the writing momentum and confidence of young writers, will be of enormous value to them and to your school.