Volunteering Week: students get kids coding in Leicester

Across the UK, Code Club Regional Coordinators work closely with colleges, universities and other higher education institutions to get students started as Code Club volunteers. Our East Midlands Regional Coordinator, Katharine Childs, tells us about working with De Montfort University (DMU) in Leicester to get local Code Clubs up and running. I’ve been cooperating with […]

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When the BBC visited Code Club

At the end of February, the Code Club at Abbey Community Primary in Leicester had some visitors: a camera crew from the BBC that filmed them as part of a piece for BBC East Midlands. Here, Steve Gale, the volunteer at the club and one of our Code Club Champions, talks about the experience. So […]

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It’s goodbye from me

With a tear in our eyes, we bring you this message from Code Club co-founder Clare Sutcliffe. After six incredible years at Code Club and the Raspberry Pi Foundation, I’ve made the difficult but exciting decision to search out new adventures and challenges. When I co-founded Code Club back in April 2012, I had no […]

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Rik explains: stretching Scratch

Scratch, a free drag-and-drop programming language, is the perfect place to start out if you are new to coding. But, just because it is accessible for beginners, doesn’t mean that you can only create simple programmes. In this blog post, Interim Head of Content and Curriculum and Code Club leader Rik Cross explains how to […]

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Try out our brand-new Blender projects

Are you looking for a different kind of project to get stuck in to with your Code Club? You are? Then we have just the thing! We’ve created a set of new Blender projects to introduce your club members to the world of 3D design. What is Blender? Blender is a free software programme which […]

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Sixth form–led Code Clubs at Calday Grange Grammar School

Since we extended Code Club’s age range to include secondary school ages up to 13 last year, we’ve seen a number of new approaches to running Code Clubs. Nicola Mounsey, Computer Science Teacher at Calday Grange Grammar School, talks about how their sixth form students have become volunteers and helped to build a Code Club […]

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Meet the 2018 Code Club Champions

We’re very proud to be introducing our Code Club Champions for 2018! What is a Code Club Champion? Our Champions are a small group of volunteers from across the UK who we’ve invited to get involved in some extra activities to help us develop and grow Code Club. “It’s a blast being a Champion. I’m […]

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