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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Code Club is a nationwide network of volunteer-led after school coding clubs for children aged 9-11. We’ve been reflecting on what we’ve achieved this year and thought we’d write a little report so you can see how we’ve been getting on. Growth In September 2012 Code Clubs started in 120 schools. By September 2013 we …

On Saturday 30th November, Croydon Tech City held its first Future Tech City event, in a drive to get a Code Club into every primary school in Croydon. There are 95 primary schools in Croydon and Future Tech City are determined to put a Code Club in every single one. With an enthusiastic and dedicated …

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 …

We love Croydon Tech City. They are a growing community of software developers, venture capitalists, technologists, startup founders and creatives who are passionate about the next generation’s skills. They love Code Club as they know how much it will help children in their area learn such skills and kick start a passion for technology to last them …