Europe Code Week 2016

Europe Code Week celebrates all things digital and code, and takes place between 15th – 23rd October 2016.

It’s a common fact that we’re training our children for jobs that haven’t even been invented yet. We’re told that many of these jobs will be within the software industry; so many parents are pushing their children to learn how to code.

The idea is to show everyone how ideas can be brought to life with code and encourage people to learn together.

Calling all teachers!

Why get involved?

In 2015, 46 countries took part in this fun week. It will help boost your students’ digital and programming skills, as well as inspire them to take on new challenges that involve coding.

Want to plan your own coding event for your students?

You can find out more about how you and your students can get involved by checking out the Code Week website, where you’ll also find some lesson plans and guides that have been prepared to help you plan and organise your fab coding event.

Looking for some coding-themed resources to help plan your day? Look no further!

Here’s how EducationCity can help you with planning for this day. We’ve some great KS1 + KS2 computer programming resources.

Here’re our KS1 + KS2 computer programming resources for this event: 

Learn Screens

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Code Crunch for Beginners (Computing) – Explore the different functions available in Code Crunch with examples of how they can be used.

  • England: Years 3 – 6
  • Scotland: First **, First *** & Second *
  • Wales: Years 3 & 4
  • N. Ireland: P5 – P7

Perfect for…  learning how to design, write and debug programs that accomplish specific goals, including controlling systems. 

Activities

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Code Crunch Lesson (Computing) – Understand and use the REPEAT function within Code Crunch.

  • England: Years 3 & 4
  • Scotland: First ** & First ***
  • Wales: Years 3 & 4
  • N. Ireland: P4 & P5

Computational Thinking (Computing) – Analyse the code to answer questions about the input and output with multiple choice.

  • England: Years 5 & 6
  • Scotland: Second * & Second **
  • Wales: Years 5 & 6
  • N. Ireland: P6 & P7

Perfect for… teaching your key stage two class the repeat command, understanding the IF function and learning about how data can be processed in computer programming. 

Student Tools 

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Code Crunch (Mathematics/Maths/Numeracy) – Write or edit a program to generate number pairs giving totals up to 10.

  • England: Year 2
  • Scotland: First *
  • Wales: Year 2
  • N. Ireland: P3

Code Crunch (Computing) – Identify faults in a program and edit it to correct them.

  • England: Year 1 & 2
  • Scotland: First *
  • Wales: Years 1 & 2
  • N. Ireland: P2 & P3

Perfect for…  teaching your key stage one class how to create and debug simple programs.

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