11th May 2017
Growing Code Club
For the past five years, Code Club has been working to inspire children in the UK to get excited about coding and digital making. We’ve seen our community grow rapidly in that time – there are now an amazing 5,750 Code Clubs engaging over 85,000 young people in the UK each week! We couldn’t have …
8th May 2017
Have a go at our Space Diary projects!
At the end of last year, Curved House Kids and author Lucy Hawking launched the second Principia Space Diary programme, a primary science scheme first created in 2015-16 as one of the UK Space Agency-funded education outreach projects supporting Tim Peake’s Principia Space Mission. To celebrate the launch of the Space Diary, we created some …
19th April 2017
Family Learning with Code Club
We’re always interested to hear about new ways of engaging different people to learn more about coding and digital making. So when we heard that Leicester Libraries and Leicester City Council’s Family Learning team have been running a pilot project using Code Clubs to encourage parents and children to learn new skills together, we wanted …
11th April 2017
Introducing two new members of the Code Club team!
Code Club’s amazing team of Regional Coordinators help us to grow and to support our community across the UK. They attend events, and meet and speak with volunteers, hosts, educators, and partners on a local level. We’re really pleased to welcome two new members to the team: Adam Williams, our new coordinator for Wales, who …
10th April 2017
Take part in Code Club’s Easter competition!
The Easter holidays are here and to celebrate we are giving away some goodies to our Code Clubs! Our easter eggs have hatched and chicks are on the loose, hiding around our website for you to find! Every day we’ll be posting a clue on Twitter and Facebook, which may help lead you to the …
30th March 2017
Your feedback: host survey 2016
At the end of last year we sent out a survey to Code Club hosts to ask them about their experiences running Code Club at their venues. We had some great feedback, and now that we’ve crunched the numbers, we wanted to share our findings! Firstly, our thanks to more than 300 Code Club hosts …
21st March 2017
Evaluating Code Club’s impact
Earlier this month, we celebrated Code Club’s fifth birthday. Over that time we have grown from 25 clubs to a network of over 5,000 active clubs in the UK and many thousands more across the world. That’s only been possible thanks to the fantastic work of our community of volunteers and educators, and the enthusiasm …
8th March 2017
Celebrating Digital Schools in Scotland
by Dave Hazeldean, Code Club Community Support Assistant It’s really exciting to see how schools across the UK are getting involved in different digital activities. Running a Code Club is just one of many ways that schools can develop their school’s digital offering for pupils. I recently paid a trip to Wormit Primary School in …
28th February 2017
Come along to a Code Club meetup!
by Katharine Childs, Code Club Regional Coordinator for East Midlands Meetups are a great way for anyone running a Code Club to get ongoing support and for anyone new to find out more. Run by our team of Regional Coordinators, they take place all around the country and are a relaxed, informal way to meet …
22nd February 2017
SVW 2017: student volunteers inspiring the next generation
As part of Student Volunteering Week, we’re profiling some of the awesome people who work with Code Club student volunteers to run clubs and help inspire the next generation to get excited about coding and digital making. Chriss McGlone-Atkinson is Network Manager at the Flying Bull Academy and runs the school’s Code Club a alongside …
