Moonhack

Today St Francis of Assisi is hoping to join kids around the world in setting a new World Record, by taking part in Moonhack.

What is Moonhack?

Moonhack is the World Record set by kids coding, and the idea came from the team at Code Club Australia. Last year 10,207 Australian kids participated in this free event. This year we're going global! From Sydney to Seoul, Dhaka to Durham, kids all over the world will get the chance to collaborate and code today, Tuesday August 15th.

Every student @stfrancischch will take part in one of the following projects:

Scratch Jnr

Scratch

Python

They will then share their projects and be counted as part of the World Record attempt.

Haven't coded before? It's easy why not try one of the projects above?

Code Club Term Two

We are one term down and excited to be starting Term Two and our second term of coding next week. This term our Friday lunchtime groups will be split in to three groups, as our numbers are so large, Kākano - Scratch Jnr on iPads, Paiaka - Scratch Jnr on iPads and Tumu/Kaupeka Scratch Module One/Two. Our Tuesday after school group will also spilt in to three groups, Paiaka - Scratch Jnr on iPads, Tumu/Kaupeka - Scratch Module One and Tumu/Kaupeka - Scratch Module Two.

It's not too late to join! If you are or your child is a student at St Francis of Assisi School and would like to join please email whitney.hansen@stfrancischch.school.nz. 

We are so lucky @stfrancischch that we are able to offer Code Club to so many students. The reason we are able to do this is because we have so many teachers willing to give up lunchtimes and after school to help run the  clubs.

This is a great sketchnote from Sylvia Duckworth and Brian Aspinall on why we offer students the opportunity to code #thisiswhywecode.

http://brianaspinall.com/10-reasons-to-teach-coding-sketchnote-by-sylviaduckworth/

We Loooooovvvvveeee Coding

We are now in Week 4 of Code Club and we are absolutely loving it. We have over 120 students coding @stfrancischch, and they are coding all sorts of different projects from animations to video games. Mrs Earl, our principal is one of our most addicted coders, and Mrs Simanu is not far behind her. If you get the chance to ask her about her animation on "The Attack of the Plum" do, it's  definitely worth a look.

In these pictures are members of our Tuesday Code Club using Scratch Jnr to code on the iPads. This group are working towards getting their own Scratch account and will then Code on Chromebooks with our Year 5-8 students. 

  

Throughout the year we will share some of our games and animations with you, so check back in again soon.