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We’re really sad to be waving goodbye to the Head of Code Club UK, Laura Kirsop, as she moves on to pastures new. Laura has been with Code Club pretty much since the beginning, in one form or another. At first she was the teacher working with a volunteer at one of our first ever pilot …

Here at Code Club we think our volunteers are the coolest people on the planet, and we want to do everything we can to support them and encourage new people to join the gang. Over the past few months we’ve been developing some shiny online training to give our volunteers all the information and inspiration …

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 …

Are you a teacher or a techie in Hackney? Help us #GetHackneyCoding this month! Code Club Pro are offering free teacher training sessions for primary school teachers in Hackney, supported by Samsung and Hackney Learning Trust. If you’re a techie keen to lend your skills you can join the coding movement by running an after-school Code Club in …

All Code Clubs must be fully registered with us. If a club appears on our homepage map then it’s registered – YAY! If it’s not on our map then you have a tiny bit of work to do – please either register today or log in to your account and complete our registration checklist. If you get stuck then just …

As our young coders prepare to go home for the school holidays, and we’ve set the radio to Festive FM here at HQ, we’d like to share with you some highlights of our year — it’s been an amazing one. You can download our full report as a handy .pdf here, but for selected highlights read …

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 …

Code Club is on a mission to give as many children the opportunity to learn to code as possible so our team is growing quickly. These are the great people who’ve joined us in the last month: Joe Scarboro This month we’re pleased to welcome Joe Scarboro to the board of Code Club. Joe comes …

Running a Code Club is an excellent way to compliment the introduction of the new Computing curriculum, as it offers children lots of opportunities to learn and build upon skills taught in Computing lessons. Computational thinking is a skill that takes time and practice to hone. Code Club provides an ideal space for children to …

Last Thursday we launched our Regional Hub at The Factory Youth Zone in Manchester. We are working with our partner Samsung to open five Hubs across the UK, which we hope will drive us further to meeting our aim of reaching 5,000 clubs and 70,000 children by the end of 2015. Manchester’s The Factory Youth …