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This summer was all about the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and to celebrate, we have created a selection of awesome new Scratch projects! We’ve released three new sporty projects over on our projects site. The first of these is Synchronised Swimming, where you’ll learn how to code a synchronised swimming routine for Scratch the cat, by …

It’s been some time since since we first announced our partnership with the BBC micro:bit. We’re now really pleased to share with you the launch of six projects we’ve created for this device, as children in schools all over the country receive them from today (22nd March). All our micro:bit projects are available to view …

At Code Club, we know that one of the awesome ways to inspire children to be excited about programming is to let them get their hands on hardware with which they can experiment. We also know this hardware doesn’t grow on trees, so we’ve got a solution – the  crowdfunding platform Hubbub. Hubbub allows you …

We’re very excited to announce that we’ve been busily working away to improve Code Club’s existing HTML & CSS curriculum! One of the key developments is the use of Trinket, a coding environment which allows children to create web pages online. We hope that using Trinket will help to overcome some previous challenges facing children in …

This Saturday is Scratch Day, when people all around the world come together to celebrate Scratch and the people who use Scratch. As you probably know, here at Code Club we love Scratch – it’s the first tool we use in our projects, and most of our volunteers, Code Clubbers and parents are well aware …

We’re super excited to tell you all about Code Kingdoms, a fantastic new online platform which enables children to design their own game worlds using code. We’re partnering with Code Kingdoms because it’s a great tool for our volunteers and teachers to use in their Code Clubs. We think children will enjoy exploring the games, …

Our wonderful Head of Education Rik has been hard at work updating the Code Club Scratch curriculum in the past few weeks. Here’s a quick look at the new projects he’s developed: Memory — memorise and repeat a sequence of random colours! Dodgeball — a platform game, in which you have to dodge the moving …

Code Club and Into Film have teamed up to create a fantastic new coding resource, Code, Create and Animate. Designed to help you make use of the language of film, this new resource, packed full of fun and engaging activities, will help young coders create an exciting, filmic scratch animation. The partnership will provide opportunities …

Hardware hijinks! We love to hear about what’s going on in all of our clubs, from cool game innovations through to hardware experiments, by way of digital art and robots! If you’d like some hardware for your club but aren’t really sure how to go about it, you should know Hubbub is a great way …

December is very nearly upon us, which means it’s about time we re-released Christmas Capers – a special festive-theme Scratch project! Many clubs had great fun with this last year, and some of you have already got in touch requesting it so we thought we’d dig it out of the deep digital vaults here at …