Code club

Code Club at Ridgeway School Croydon – feedback from first 2 weeks

As I wrote about last month, following an initial presentation about code club to the year 5 assembly at Ridgeway primary school in Croydon, we’ve now started our first term of teaching and we’re 2 weeks into the course. I wanted to share some feedback about lessons learnt to date. 1. The assembly was a great… Continue reading Code Club at Ridgeway School Croydon – feedback from first 2 weeks

Code Club demo to year 5 children at Ridgeway – questions I was asked

I did a talk this morning on code club at Ridgeway Primary school in Croydon where I’ll be starting up a new code club next term. The talk was a 15 minute intro to the principles of the after school club, with a demo of scratch and an opportunity for the children to ask questions.… Continue reading Code Club demo to year 5 children at Ridgeway – questions I was asked

Code Club in Croydon at Ridgeway Primary School

Following on from my previous post, I’ve had a meeting with Ridgeway Primary School and we’re planning to start up our after school code club in the first week of summer term, running on Thursday afternoons for an initial 6 week trial period. I am crazily excited and enthused about this and can’t wait to… Continue reading Code Club in Croydon at Ridgeway Primary School

Code club in Croydon

I’ve signed up to run a code club at Ridgeway Primary school in Croydon (where my daughter goes) as part of a larger volunteer program which my current employer dotDigital are starting up in association with the guys at Croydon tech city. Hopefully this will start in the summer term. Watch this space for more… Continue reading Code club in Croydon