With the working world growing ever more technologically sophisticated, learning how to code starts early at Brighton Girls? Prep, writes the school?s coding specialist Jayne Meadows
In this technological age, we want to make sure every girl is given the opportunity to develop their logical and computational thinking, embedding it into the school curriculum, right from reception. We also offer four after-school clubs dedicated to coding and physical computing, including an advanced coding club for those more comfortable with basic coding logic. From reception through to year two, the girls are given the opportunity to develop their computational skills through the use of apps such as ScratchJr, the physical coding app BeeBot and a range of digital literacy-focused activities. In year three through to year six, they?re all taught Scratch, which embeds that all-important coding logic, and then they create physical coding projects involving Lego SPIKE Prime, Crumble Kits and Micro:Bit coding. Trial and error
As the girls move up the school, and by the time they reach year six, it?s great to see some of them coding in Python, one of the world?s most popular real-world languages used by professional programmers. The coding curriculum is very much focused on developing the girls? confidence, logical thinking and computational skills, so to support this we have exciting plans to include cross-curricular opportunities for the girls with DT and science. 
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