For every computer game, phone app or website someone has programmed it. You can learn to write programs without being a computing genius. At Hawthornden Primary School children are programming by setting up a Code Club.
On Monday 29th October the Code Club starts at Hawthornden Primary School. They are one of the first in Scotland and will join hundreds of other schools across the UK in having their own code Club. It will be running after school once a week enabling children to enjoy writing computer programs.
Code Club is a UK wide initiative to get children programming computers. The Code Club initiative has been featured in the national press following its launch earlier in the year.
Click here to find out more about Code Club
BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19717769
Independent
www.independent.co.uk/…/code-club-afterschool-group-tea…
Wired
www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-04/17/code-club
YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxhGIajRsq4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci3hY83rUwU
If you would like further information or would like to come and see what we’re doing please contact
Rob Heasman
Hawthornden Primary School
(0131) 271 4600
or send us a message at our Code Club email address codeclub@mgfl.net
You will also be able to keep a track of what we’re doing on our blog
http://blogger.mgfl.net/hawthorndencodeclub/
or on Twitter @thedencodeclub
