In this paper, we study the convergence of Taylor approximations for the backward SLE maps near the origin. In addition, this result highlights the limitations of using stochastic Taylor methods for approximating SLE κ traces. Due to the analytically tractable vector fields of the Loewner equation, we will show the Ninomiya–Victoir splitting is particularly well suited for SLE simulation. We believe that this is the first high order numerical method that has been successfully applied to SLE κ.