Happy Hens
After learning that one of our young pupils recently bought some chickens for her garden, we set about designing a web page to advertise the eggs she was going to…
Covert Scratch Projects into Android Apps
As well as converting Scratch projects into standalone programs (see previous post), did you know that you can also take any Scratch project and turn it into an app for…
Who’s Talking About Scratch 3?
Whilst trying out Scratch 3, pupils have been giving their chatbots a voice. The responses are random to give the chatbots a bit of character. We're going to look at…
Online Teaching Resources
First Coding is very happy to reveal that after a summer of hard work our teaching resources are now online and available. Our resource packs are a subscription based online…
Coding Competition Winners
The Scratch coding competition that was run over the summer holidays has now finished and I have had great fun judging the entries. After failing to find suitable competition to…
This Summer’s Coding Competition
A huge thank you to everyone who took the time to enter their games they made into our summer competition. We'll be going through them all shortly and we'll announce the winners at the…
A Musical Challenge
I set a challenge recently to see if pupils could make a simple note sequencer whereby you load notes into a loop and the Scratch programme cycles through the sequence, playing…
The Scratch Chatbots
I want to share one of the projects my group are working on at the minute. The task was to build a convincing chatbot in Scratch, homing in on particular…
Rain Soundboard
Here is a simple soundboard for you to try. Clicking on the numbers one at a time will play sound clips of rain. Pressing button 3 will allow you to…
Blast Off!
Watch through the telescope as the First Coding rocket blasts off for the stars. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/204088828/