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.

                                               

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.