Technology After School Club

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In the process of helping our school set up a Technology After School Club with 3 Strands. 1-Code Club part of the National Code Club Network 9-11 yrs, 2-Lego Education all ages and 3- Internet Club all ages. Can anyone please offer any tips, advice, suggestions for successful running of these kind of clubs?

Can't offer advice as such but my DD (9) does code club at school.
One of the teachers picked about 8 of them from years 4,5 and 6 to do it and a parent helps (IT consultant)
DD loves it although DH is in IT and is a bit sniffy about the language they are learning.

Internet club - I would do lots on esafety! Loads if great materials out there, especially from thinkuknow.

Sounds great
My ds (9) would love it
Not sure i would pay for him to do more technology stuff

Thanks everyone

I run a code club at my childrens' school. You're welcome to PM me with any questions or ask here.
I find the code club material very good, the children have made great progress and love it. I'm trying it with younger (y3) this term.
Also have some lego we-do(?) on order at the school which I'd like to play with let the children learn with.
Internet wise; safety (thinkuknow website is good) and also developing scepticism e.g. Don't believe everything you read online and via email; check the source. Plagiarism issues e.g. Not just copying and pasting from web pages for research homework. Also HTML and creating web pages; there are code club units with lesson plans for this.

What's code club?

www.codeclub.org.uk

Code club

Thanks, Hula. Shall look into it. Though my being musical means I shall forever be the one hosting the recorder instead.

Toot toot!

Have a look at the Raspberry Pi. It's a really good way to get kids interested in hardware.

For coding look at Scratch. It's a language developed by MIT to teach kids to programme.

Scratch is what they are learning at DD's code club

I teach Scratch to Y2. It's a nice introductory programming language to introduce the concepts of coding to primary school children. The vast majority really enjoy it when we do coding, and many go home and try it outside of school too. Have done some of the mre basic stuff with some Y1s this year too and hoping to roll it with them a bit more next year.

Hoppinggreen - sad that your DH isn't impressed with children learning Scratch as a start. Most of the programmers I know of are quite happy with it, especially for young children.

Does your school have espresso?? Loads if coding stuff on there.

I agree, lots of e safety stuff with Internet club.