STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS
84 Commonwealth awards, and not one of them for a school report.
Writing is a real world skill. It gets children read, judged and recognised by people who have never met them, in rooms they’ll never walk into.
These students wrote their entries in their own time, on their own subjects. What we gave them was the method.
Every piece of writing below can be read in full.
84
Commonwealth Essay Competition awards
9
Gold medals
3
Consecutive years placing
100+
Students awarded across all competitions
THE COMMONWEALTH ESSAY COMPETITION
The oldest international writing competition for young people.
Founded in 1883 and run by the Royal Commonwealth Society. Entries come from more than 50 countries and are judged in London.
2025
Bronze
18 awards in a single year.
2024
THE FUNFOX ESSAY COMPETITION
Our own competition, held every year.
Students all over the world, both in FunFox and beyond, participate in this competition. We publish the winning essays in full, so you can see what a child at each year level writes after a few terms with us.
2026
SPEAKING, NOT JUST WRITING
Finalists, 2024.
Students write their own speech, then deliver it. The topic is theirs to argue.
Year 2
Year 4
HOW
We don’t coach competition entry.
There is no competition class at FunFox, and no separate preparation track. Nobody sat with these children and worked on their entries. They chose their own topics, wrote in their own time, and submitted alongside tens of thousands of other students.
That’s why the results mean something to us. A mark on a school report tells you how a child compared to the twenty five children beside them. An award judged in London tells you something else entirely.
We teach writing as a skill for the world, not for the report. Recognition of this kind is what that looks like when it works.
WHAT PARENTS SAY
In their own words.
Watch parents talk about their child’s experience.
Every child here started with a free trial class.
Same method. Same teachers. What they did with it was their own.
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