13th March 2014
So open! Much access! All of the Code Club projects are online!
We are super pleased to announce that all the Code Club UK projects are now available online. If you’re a parent or teacher, you can start using the materials now, without registering a club. If you’re curious about running a club, you can look over all the materials before you make a decision, but If you …
4th March 2014
An update on our projects
The good news: At the moment we have four terms worth of awesome projects. Two terms of Scratch projects, a term of HTML & CSS projects and a term of Python projects. We’re really proud of them so far — so proud that we are shortly going to take them out from behind the sign …
28th February 2014
Introducing Michael, our new Community Manager
It’s been a crazy year at Code Club. We’ve recently hit 2000 clubs, launched Code Club World and Code Club Pro. We’re certainly not showing any sign of stopping. As we grow it’s important that we are able to continue to support the amazing community of volunteers and schools that have made Code Club so …
13th February 2014
Why we code and why we teach it
This year is the start of something special in education: computers are starting to be seen as an opportunity, not just a smarter typewriter. Since the new computing curriculum was announced last year, there has been renewed interest in teaching children how to program computers and not just use them to run applications. Accompanying this …
11th February 2014
Our partnership in Manchester
Manchester has long been a hotspot for Code Club activity in the UK. The council made Code Club part of their digital strategy for the city a while back and set the target of having clubs in 25% of schools by 2015. Thanks to the efforts of amazing human beings like Steven Flower who have been …
7th February 2014
Code Club Pro – Computing training for primary school teachers
As the teachers out there know, the new computing curriculum comes into effect this September. That’s only 6 months away. Eeek! There is a lot more programming in the new curriculum and teachers will be expected to teach it to children from aged 5. And that’s on top of changes to the rest of the …
23rd January 2014
Hi Manchester, WE LOVE YOU…
As you may know by now, we’re working megasuperhard behind the scenes to meet the demand we have from schools for Code Clubs. We’ve been working on a local partnerships model where we match up local tech staff and university students with schools. It’s working really well in Camden, and things are also underway in …
9th January 2014
Our partnership in Islington
Yesterday the London Borough of Islington announced their strategy for Computing and we are pleased to say that having a Code Club in all of their schools is part of it! We went along to an exciting event at Islington Assembly Hall where children from Islington schools showed us all the amazing things they’ve been …
6th January 2014
Volunteer Story: Chris Hayhurst
Here at Code Club we appreciate the effort and enthusiasm of our many fantastic volunteers and so every month we are going to ask one of them to blog about their experiences. Next up is Chris Hayhurst. My name is Chris Hayhurst and I manage the consulting group within MathWorks, an international company providing software …
20th December 2013
Dancing Queen!
Our Robo-Boogie competition asked children to create a dancing robot and the public voted to decide the winner. Today we are pleased to announce the winner was Daisy from Abbey Catholic Primary School in Erdington, Birmingham with her awesome robot Lieutenant Polka Flux! Daisy says, “I enjoyed entering this competition, it gave me a chance …
