Coding Club

Coding Club

Every Friday 3.10 pm – 4pm

Year 2 Learning Space (used to be the Library)

Contact: Mr Scurr (Year 2 L1 Teacher)

carl.scurr@thorrington.ac.nz 

More Info:

http://www.scratchjr.org/about.html

https://scratch.mit.edu/
http://www.codeclub.nz/ 

If you are keen to learn how to use code and create your own computer programs, come along  for a chance to Imagine, Program, Share!

See below for some of the apps we will be using in Coding Club

2016 update!! 
Here are our new robots - we will get these ready for Term 3  2016!!!

For early Coders, here is a fantastic app 

- Daisy The Dino 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/daisy-the-dinosaur/id490514278?mt=8 

we are using this in Timatanga for our Discovery Time 

 

There is also Scratch Jrn. on the ipad and tablet - a great beginners level for programming!!!
http://www.scratchjr.org/about.html 

ScratchJr Website Video from Mitchel Resnick on Vimeo.

And finally the full version of scratch - good for more confident coders who have used the previous two apps and would like to advance.

Scratch Overview from ScratchEd on Vimeo.

https://scratch.mit.edu/

Last year we found this cool project which has been created by Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerburg. We will be signing up again this year once we get a but more confident with our coding - click on the image below to check out the website!

Click here when we sign up!

https://studio.code.org/sections/XDNKAY



We now have these guys in school! 
So now....we can even program ROBOTS! 
Watch this space! 

Click here 

to see how another school is using these robots for deep learning!