diff --git a/openfl-tutorials/deprecated/native_api/Federated_Pytorch_MNIST_Tutorial.ipynb b/openfl-tutorials/deprecated/native_api/Federated_Pytorch_MNIST_Tutorial.ipynb
index 29833705f0..10e83949df 100644
--- a/openfl-tutorials/deprecated/native_api/Federated_Pytorch_MNIST_Tutorial.ipynb
+++ b/openfl-tutorials/deprecated/native_api/Federated_Pytorch_MNIST_Tutorial.ipynb
@@ -135,8 +135,10 @@
    "source": [
     "from torch.utils.tensorboard import SummaryWriter\n",
     "\n",
+    "writer = SummaryWriter('./logs/cnn_mnist', flush_secs=5)\n",
+    "\n",
+    "\n",
     "def write_metric(node_name, task_name, metric_name, metric, round_number):\n",
-    "    writer = SummaryWriter('./logs/cnn_mnist', flush_secs=5)\n",
     "    writer.add_scalar(\"{}/{}/{}\".format(node_name, task_name, metric_name),\n",
     "                      metric, round_number)"
    ]