You may remember from a previous post, that our small sub-group of kids working on Python was picked by finding those that had progressed more than 50% through the Code Club Scratch 2 module. Of those students, a couple opted to stay on Scratch - leaving four that were keen to get started on Python. One student had already done all of Python module 1, which was really great to see.

As I’ve mentioned a few times recently, our students have been recording completed projects - this works both as a way for them to measure their progress, and for us to know how everyone is going. Something I’ve noticed, is that when someone gets a bit bogged down, whether it be due to things not working or making sense, or even just when working on a particularly tough bug, sitting down with them and working through it together seems to have a long-term positive effect on that student.

This semester, we swapped over to the second of our Code Club groups. Although this group has older students, there’s also some younger kids that missed out last semester, with a good spread of newcomers. Since each group has less time with our Code Club being split into two shorter semesters this year, and we have more students learning to code in the curriculum now, we decided to start with Code Club’s slightly more advanced Scratch2 module this time.