International Day of Education 2026!
It's International Day of Education so, to celebrate, we're here to tell you about why we think it's so important that our members have the opportunity to learn at their own pace.
Keep reading to find out more...
January 24th marks “International Education Day!” UNESCO have set their theme as “The power of youth in co-creating education” which is something we feel passionate about here at The Code Zone. Let’s chat about it!
Child Led Learning
Here at The Code Zone, we pride ourselves on letting our members take the sessions at their pace, choosing what particular aspects they want to learn about!
We believe that letting them choose their path allows them to stay focused for longer (and have loads more fun!!!)
Championing Accessibility
We also believe that allowing children to choose their own path makes coding more accessible! We pride ourselves on working to make coding accessible to all kinds of people, and this doesn’t go unnoticed!
In 2025 we received the Autism Inclusion Award from the National Autistic Society, showing our dedication to making code as accessible as possible!
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If you feel passionate about letting your child learn the way THEY want to, come along to a free taster session and see how we can help your child!
About The Code Zone Academy
Posts like this one are written by the mentors, about what members have been building. The Game Dev Academy has no fixed session time: a new build goes up every week and a child opens it whenever they are ready, with a STEM-certified mentor answering by text and video message when they get stuck.
Children build their own games rather than following a set course, starting in Scratch. Levels move down as readily as up, and staying where you are is a perfectly good outcome. Every mentor is background-checked and STEM-certified.
More like this
The blog is in two halves. Guides are the evergreen explainers written by the mentors who teach the clubs, covering the questions parents actually ask: what comes after Scratch, how to support a coding-mad child when you cannot code yourself, and what works for autistic and ADHD children.
Club news is the other half, and it is where posts like this one live: game jams, Minecraft builds and weekly roundups, written up by whoever ran the session. Neither is marketing. If you want to know what the work actually looks like before you sign up to anything, club news is the more honest read of the two.
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