hour of code – Note to self

Hour of Code 2018

And we did it again! Me and Blanca Mansfield, which run a Python Code Club at the school, ran the Hour of Code 2018 at Arahoe Primary School, working with all classes from Year 3 to Year 6. It is the second time that we run the event at the school.

We’ve managed to do it in 2 days working with different groups of students ranging from 7 to 11 years old. The groups ranged from all year 6 students at once (60 or 70 of them) all the way to a single class of year 3 students. The lessons from last year made the organization much easier, so I didn’t need to prepare as much as I had last year.

Hour of Code 2017

It has been a while since the last post. Between work and a bit of author’s block (hey it is a good excuse as any), a month or so went by and no posts.

But there is something that was not exactly technical that I would like to share – I had an awesome experience running an Hour of Code event at the kids’ school. What started with a conversation with Andrea Howard, the Learning Support Teacher at Arahoe School, end up being a big event at school with all year 3, 4, 5 and 6 participating over two days. Continue reading “Hour of Code 2017”