Hour of code lesson plan how to#

This also worked well for because it meant the cohort could keep the progress they'd made previously without having to lose it year-on-year. For assessment purposes, each cohort (not year group) at our school is assigned a colour this allows for tracking cohorts back. The first step was to set up accounts for teachers to access to view their cohort. Good luck and please email or tweet me if you have any questions. You may want to read a section, action that section and then come back.

Hour of code lesson plan how to#

Strap in, this is going to be a long blog post which takes you through setting up the teachers and pupils, how they log in, how to set the learning, how we organised plans and how assessment works.

We only made it halfway through the year but the feedback from teachers was positive in terms of ease of teaching and the quality of learning for pupils. This was really successful and it was easy to see how the lessons would work well so we set up the whole school, created our own plans in school format based on the lessons and last year were poised for an entire year of high-quality coding lessons for our pupils. I trialled using the Y1/Course A plans with a Y1/2 code club in the summer term of 2019. works in a browser, including on iPads so is perfect for every primary school with access to at least a half class set of devices. Thankfully, my former colleague's years of repeated messages about must have sunk in somewhere as we began to explore the site and realise the goldmine of an entire free curriculum of plans, resources and online lessons for the whole school (and beyond) in coding and e-safety. I do consider myself to be someone who will take a good idea and run with it but for some reason I never fully explored the site.Īt my current school, I've been working with an RQT in leading computing and our coding provision just wasn't up to scratch. Across the school, we used the site once a year for the Hour of Code in the autumn term and I was always impressed with the quality of the learning available within an hour. For years at my last school, a colleague went on and on about the computing resources available on.