Scratch

After getting to know the children, over the last two sessions, and finding out their strengths, I’ve decided to take a little detour from Scratch to a slightly more guided programme on code.org. The children can continue the course at home if they’d like to – they’ll just need to remember which step they are up to in class! If they would like to save their progress then feel free to create an account for them....

In the class, we are starting to learn some programming. The language we are using is called Scratch. Scratch is a free visual programming language. It is aimed at young people, mainly 8 years old and up, with a purpose of helping them learn programming. Scratch is available online and it’s easy to create an account if you’d like to use it outside of school. Just follow this link. The first challenge we are working on is below!...