13th October 2014
New Coordinators: East Midlands & South West!
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 …
9th October 2014
Autumn term greetings
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 …
5th September 2014
Our New and Improved Curriculum
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 …
28th August 2014
How Code Club is run and our relationship with our funders
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 …
6th August 2014
NW and SE calling!
Hello friends! We hope August is treating you well; we’ve been having a great time here at Code Club HQ, getting lots of exciting things ready for the next school year. We’d like to introduce you to two more of our new regional coordinators: Liz in the North West and Paul in the South East… NORTH WEST – LIZ …
23rd July 2014
Croeso, Craig!
Hello Code Clubbers! We hope you’re enjoying a very sunny and happy July. It’s all things go here at HQ and around the UK; Wales’ first Code Club meetup is next week, so we thought it would be an excellent idea to introduce you to Craig Thomas, the new regional coordinator. Craig’s meetup will be on Thursday …
16th July 2014
Year ends and new beginnings
Hello world! This is Ros, Code Club’s new Operations Assistant, checking in & giving you an update on things here at HQ. Thank you volunteers, thank you teachers, thank you thank you co-ders! Your work this year has made such a difference to coding in the UK — and across the world! We hope you’ve …
9th April 2014
An update (on our 2nd birthday)!
We turned two years old yesterday so we threw a party! Over 100 people came through the door to party with us – Scratch games made by our wonderful volunteers were played, cakes were eaten and drinks were drank (thanks so much to Twilio for those!) We thought we’d give you a bit of an …
18th March 2014
Crowdfund hardware for your Code Club!
Ever wished your Code Club could have a go at programming hardware and playing with electronics? Well now they can! Obviously we don’t have the funds to buy hardware for the 2100 Code Clubs that exist but we can certainly give you the tools to raise that money yourself. We’ve teamed up with Hubbub to …