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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 …

The Computing curriculum’s stated aim is to equip pupils with the skills “to understand and change the world”. But why stop there, when the rest of the universe is in danger? In the Doctor and the Dalek game, the Doctor and his Dalek companion must work together to find the ‘Orb of Fates’ before the …

Our wonderful volunteer Sean has shared his Code Club set-up story, a must-read for any potential volunteers (but great for current ones too!). If you’d like to share your story, or tell us about anything exciting happening in your club, please do get in touch. :) My name is Sean McManus and as well as being …

The Code Club team has grown again! We now have 3 more regional coordinators joining the others already working their socks off to support and grow our community around the UK. Katharine Childs is our coordinator for the East Midlands, and Seemah Burgess-Nahome will be looking after the South West. Hi, I’m Katharine, and I’m …

Hardware hijinks! We love to hear about what’s going on in all of our clubs, from cool game innovations through to hardware experiments, by way of digital art and robots! If you’d like some hardware for your club but aren’t really sure how to go about it, you should know Hubbub is a great way …

We’re currently in the process of redesigning our curriculum, so here’s an update to let you know how it’s going, and how you can help and support us. Our Projects We’ve almost finished developing our Python curriculum, which now includes 10 new projects. Children will learn Python by making lots of awesome things, including a …

Yesterday Linda Sandvik resigned from the Code Club board. As a co-founder of Code Club and early contributor to the organisation we all owe Linda a big thank you and wish her the best of luck in her next endeavour. As an independent, non-political organisation, we remain totally committed to Code Club’s core aim to …