I went to Reading Geek Night - 2nd Tuesday of the month, upstairs at a large central pub. There I met Peter Higginson and got talking, ending up suggesting that I might be interested in assisting in running coding classes and an associated Code Club at a local primary school. Inevitably, his current assistant backed out, and I was called in.
Four weeks of Scratch lessons to two Year 6 classes (10 year olds), then Dec - April lunchtime Code Clubs, one hour once a week. It's fun. The kids are amazingly interested!
We started Code Club with some additional Scratch work, then moved onto the 8 micro:bits that the club has. They were quite fun, with kids getting involved in making music and various other things than can easily be done. It's quite hard to
Four weeks of Scratch lessons to two Year 6 classes (10 year olds), then Dec - April lunchtime Code Clubs, one hour once a week. It's fun. The kids are amazingly interested!
We started Code Club with some additional Scratch work, then moved onto the 8 micro:bits that the club has. They were quite fun, with kids getting involved in making music and various other things than can easily be done. It's quite hard to
- Help all the people with questions, as they're all working at different speeds and levels, with only two people
- Address/fix the problems they encounter when one has little or no experience of the tools yet, especially as some of the difficulties are because they deleted something!
Subsequently, we've moved onto Javascript, modifying a "shoot down the airliner" game. I'd forgotten lots about JS...
Ideally, I'd like to have some slightly longer term projects running, that involve multiple people doing various sub-tasks, that would carry us from week to week. But they are coming back, and enthusiastic, amazingly, so should I be asking for more at all?
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