Coding for Home Educated Children
Coding that fits around home education, for children aged 6 to 16. Structured enough to count as your computing strand, flexible enough that nothing is missed if you have a bad week.
Home educating parents tell us the same thing often enough that it is worth saying out loud: the child has not gone off computers. They have lost the structure and they have lost the other children who were into the same thing. The interest is still there, and it usually has nowhere to go except more screen time.
That is the gap we are useful for. We are not a curriculum provider and we are not a school replacement. We run coding for children who want to make games, with a real mentor attached, in a shape that works when there is no timetable telling you where to be.
How it works
Structure without a fixed slot
Self-paced, so there is no session to miss and nothing to catch up on. Your child works through levelled projects in Scratch at their own speed, and a STEM-certified, background-checked mentor answers by text and video message when they get stuck or want to show off what they built.
- Levels are real steps. Each one finishes with a STEM-certified certificate, so there is a record of progress you can point at.
- A new featured game every week, a fresh build every week, ready whenever your child opens it.
- Minecraft Mod Worlds, their own world to mod with real code.
- Seasonal Game Jams, where everyone plays what the others made.
- Race ahead over a wet fortnight, or leave it alone for a month. Neither breaks anything.
The Academy is €30 a month and you can cancel with 30 days notice. There is no session to sit in on, so there is nothing to try before you start. What there is instead is a month, and nothing that makes it awkward to stop after it.
A note on what we do not run here. The live weekly clubs, and the daytime ones home educating families in Britain use, run on UK evenings and afternoons in groups of no more than six. We cannot staff those hours for other time zones yet, so the Academy is what is on offer. If you would like to hear when that changes, write to us and we will make a note.
FAQ
Families use it as their computing and creative technology strand, and it gives you plenty to point at: levels with defined steps, a STEM-certified certificate at the end of each one, a dated record of every project your child has finished, and the games themselves, which your child can open and talk a reviewer through. That last one tends to do more than any paperwork. There is no formal qualification at the end of it, so if an accredited course is what you need, this is not that.
Nothing that needs catching up. Tell us and we will move your child into another slot that week, and if you would rather just skip it, the projects are still there whenever they come back. Home ed weeks are not all the same shape and the club is built to survive that.
