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Another great year of coding

A big thanks to all the children for making such awesome projects this year. Also a big thanks to all the helpers and coders for all the time they put in over the weeks. There were some fantastic projects created and we’re so proud of you all!

A fantastic year of coding

Well done to all the children who helped make some awesome projects over the year. You can see a selection of them on our Exhibition page.

Here is a slideshow with lots of photos and videos from the year. We’ll see you back in September for another year and will be welcoming the new Form 2s.

Many thanks to all the mentors and helpers who helped make the year such a success.

CoderDojo Welcomes Form 2

The second CoderDojo session took place last Saturday for Forms 3-6 and it was the first coding session for Form 2, who hit the ground running. We had 36 children attending and there was great coding being done. A big thanks to all the mentors for helping along with some past pupils.

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Beginner Scratch

Form 2 started learning Scratch with Teddy. They covered a lot of basics, from moving the cat sprite across the screen and using the pen tool. Here are some pictures:

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Hardware Zone

There was great work done with the Kano kits, where the children built and worked with the computers, helped by Samuel and Mike.

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Advanced Scratch

Niall Walsh taught Scratch for advanced users. They are working on group and individual projects.

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Python

This week saw the introduction of Python. This programming language is one of the most popular and pervasive programming languages around today, and powers websites such as YouTube, DropBox, Instagram, Pinterest (to name just a few).

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Thanks to everyone involved for all the hard work. We’re looking forward to seeing you all in two weeks time.