The two days of the holiday course seemed to fly by. Thanks to everyone who took part.
We managed to get through a lot of coding and were impressed with how everyone worked hard and achieved some great results, creating a compass, spirit level, calculator and more.
It was great to see everyone today for the first day of our holiday course at Saint Kentigern Boys’ School.
Both our young coders and the micro:bits got a good workout, creating a ‘Paper, Scissors, Rock’ game, Dice, Coin Toss simulation, and step counter.
That’s it for after-school coding this term. I hope our young coders have enjoyed the sessions, albeit with the unexpected break in the middle.
The St Heliers Centre group continued their work with JavaScript this week. Here’s the code for the test marks, if you want to try it again or modify.
Book for Term 4
Looking ahead, we’ll be running after-school classes again next term at Churchill Park School (Tuesdays), Glendowie School (Wednesdays), St Heliers Centre (Thursdays), and Saint Kentigern Boys’ School (Thursdays). If you’re interested in any of these, let us know and we’ll send through the details
Holiday course
Lastly, we’ll also be hosting a two-day holiday programme in the upcoming school break at MOTAT on Monday 5 and Tuesday 6 October (the course the week earlier at SKBS is fully booked). There’s more information at https://codechampions.nz/holiday/
Some action from Thursday’s first session at St Heliers Centre.
Well done with creating your chatbots this week. It’s an interesting process with plenty of coding processes to learn and put together.
Here the Churchill Park School group get to grips with their food ordering chatbots.
Six of our after-school classes started up again this week; the remainder do so next week.
It was great to see our young coders get back coding. We look forward to having a uninterrupted run to the end of term.
Here the St Heliers groups take part in their sessions.
Following the announcement that Auckland is moving to Level 2 from Monday, we’re delighted to be able to resume most coding classes next week.
Classes will re-start as follows:
Churchill Park School has asked that we delay by a week, so the first class back there will be on Tuesday 8 September.
We will be contacting all parents directly to confirm the re-start dates. However, if you have any questions, please feel free get in touch, info@codechampions.nz
Level 2 guidelines
Please be aware that we will be operating under the school’s health and safety guidelines for Level 2. These include:
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The extension to the Level 3 lockdown period in Auckland means that there will be no coding classes next week, 18-20 August.
This affects the following:
It’s likely that classes the week after, 25-27 August, will also not take place. However, the Government has said it will be reviewing the lockdown levels on Friday 21 August. We will make a decision as soon as we know the outcome of that review.
All parents of students in our classes will be contacted directly. If you don’t receive any communications from us – or have any questions – please let us know at info@codechampions.nz
We will be using the last week of term to re-schedule a catch-up class. For further missed classes, we will offer a credit or refund.
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As you will be aware, Auckland is re-entering a Level 3 lockdown. This means our venues are closed and our coding classes are cancelled tomorrow (12 Aug) and Thursday (13 Aug).
This affects the following:
Provisionally, we’ll re-schedule these classes for the last week of Term 3.
Looking ahead, we will review next week’s classes (and beyond) as we learn more about the extent and duration of the lockdown.
For the latest update go to codechampions.nz/2020/08/15/coding-classes-cancelled-for-next-week-18-20-august/
It’s been awesome to start up our after-school classes again in Term 3.
We hope our young coders have enjoyed themselves this week. And welcome to our new tutor Hamish Thompson.
Here’s to a term of fun and learning.
Well done to all our young coders for another excellent day.
We continued with our work using the micro:bit. Today, they created a step counter, a Magic 8-Ball, and a compass, among other things.
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