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.

                                               

Code Club @stfrancis Begins

Kia ora and welcome to Week One of our Code Clubs. We are so excited to get up and running with coding at St Francis of Assisi. This week we will cover creating accounts, sharing expectations and guidelines, and begin coding. We are registered as a Code Club with Code Club Aotearoa and will be coding our way through their amazing learning modules. The Module our Years 5-8 Students will be starting with is Scratch Module 1. 

If these students have never used Scratch before they will start by creating their own Rockband. Our Years 1-2 students will also be using Scratch, but on the iPad App Scratch Jnr, and the first thing they will be creating is an animation of a car, driving across the city. 

We now have over 110 students who have signed up to be in one of our three clubs, luckily we have several keen teachers who have volunteered their time to run these clubs, a big thank you to them, as we wouldn't be able to cater to such large groups if they weren't so keen.