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 …
20th February 2017
SVW 2017: supporting Code Club’s student volunteers
It’s Student Volunteering Week! And to celebrate, this year we’re profiling some of those who work with Code Club’s student volunteers to help them in running clubs. Student Hubs are just one of the organisations that have been supporting our work with students across the country. We spoke to Rachel Tait, Student Hubs’ Network Operations Manager, …
13th February 2017
Rik explains…Debugging your code
Code Club’s Senior Content and Curriculum Manager, Rik Cross, is not only in charge of creating the amazing projects in our curriculum – he also runs a Code Club in his local school in Leeds. His brain is full of amazing knowledge that we thought we ought to tap into more regularly, so we’ve started a blog series, which we’ve …
10th February 2017
Code Club films: start a club in your school
What do Tile Hill Library, Y Bont Faen Primary School, and Liverpool Central Library all have in common? Answer: they are all Star Clubs who agreed to let us film their club sessions last term! We wanted to make some films that showed different Code Clubs in action, to help us spread the word about …
6th February 2017
Projects for Safer Internet Day
Tomorrow is Safer Internet Day, which aims to promote the safe use of digital technology for children and young people. The day offers the opportunity to highlight positive uses of technology, and to explore the role we all play in helping to create a better and safer online community. At the Raspberry Pi Foundation and …
3rd February 2017
New Projects for the Raspberry Pi Sense HAT
We know from our termly volunteer survey that Code Clubs are keen to try some physical computing projects. Whilst we have a range of amazing resources for the Raspberry Pi over at rpf.io/learn, and are in the process of giving away micro:bits to clubs, we also know that lots of clubs don’t have access to …
31st January 2017
Thanks for joining us at Bett 2017!
Last week we had a very busy few days at the Bett Show, the EdTech event which is held annually in London. For those of you who came along, we hope you had a great time, and to all our amazing volunteers who helped us at our stand and in workshops, we wanted to say …
