{"id":993637,"date":"2022-03-23T08:30:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T12:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=993637"},"modified":"2022-03-23T08:30:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T12:30:54","slug":"code-club-in-wales-with-translations-teacher-training-and-a-country-wide-codealong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=993637","title":{"rendered":"Code Club in Wales with translations, teacher training and a country-wide codealong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the inception of Code Club in 2012, teachers in Wales have been part of the Code Club community, running extracurricular Code Club<\/a> sessions for learners in their schools. As of late 2021, there are 84 active clubs in Wales. With our new Code Club Community Coordinator for Wales, Sarah Eve Roberts, on board, we are thrilled to be able to offer more dedicated support to the community in Wales.<\/p>\n

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Support and engagement for Welsh Code Clubs<\/h2>\n

Sarah introduced herself to the Welsh education community by running a Code Club training workshop for teachers. Educators from 32 Welsh schools joined her to learn how to start their own Code Club and then tried one of the free coding projects we provide for club sessions for themselves.<\/p>\n

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The Welsh Code Club network had a chance to meet Sarah at a country-wide online codealong on 11 March, just in time to kick off British Science Week 2022. In this one-hour codealong event, we took beginner coders through the first project of our new \u2018Introduction to Scratch\u2019<\/a> pathway, Space Talk. Space Talk is a fantastic project for Code Clubs: it provides beginners with a simple introduction to coding in Scratch, and also gives plenty of opportunity for more experienced learners to get creative and make the project their own.<\/p>\n

The codealong was fantastically popular, with 90 teachers and 2900 learners from 59 schools participating. Several of the schools shared their excitement with us on Twitter, posting pictures and videos of their Space Talk projects.<\/p>\n

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Tamasin Greenough Graham, Head of Code Club, says: \u201cIt was wonderful to see so many children and teachers from Wales coding with us. I really loved the creativity they showed in all their projects!\u201d<\/p>\n

Welsh translations of Code Club learning materials<\/h2>\n

Although the codealong took place in English, Space Talk and the whole \u2018Introduction to Scratch\u2019 pathway are available in the Welsh language. The pathway includes a total of six projects, bringing the total number of Welsh-language coding projects we offer to 37. It\u2019s really important to us to offer our learning materials in Welsh, especially because we know it helps young people engage with our free coding activities.<\/p>\n

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The translation of learning materials<\/a> is a collaborative effort at the Raspberry Pi Foundation: we work with a team of 1465 volunteer translators<\/a>, who translate our materials into\u00a0 33 languages, making them accessible for more children and educators around the world.<\/p>\n

Two of these translators, Marcus and Julia Davage, are based in Wales. They help to make our projects accessible to Welsh-speaking learners. Marcus and Julia have been part of the community for 6 years, volunteering at Code Club and running their own club:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI started volunteering for Code Club in 2016 when my daughter was in a Welsh-medium primary school and her teacher had started a Code Club. This lasted until 2019. Last year I started my own Code Club at the Welsh-medium primary school at which my wife Julia teaches. Since helping out, she has taught Scratch in her own lessons!\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2013 Marcus Davage, Code Club volunteer & Welsh translation volunteer<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Marcus and Julia have translated numerous learning resources and communications for our Welsh community. Marcus describes the experience of translating:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI noticed that several of the projects hadn\u2019t been completely translated into Welsh, so when my company, BMC Software, promoted a Volunteering Day for all of its staff, I jumped at the opportunity to spend the whole day finishing off many of the missing translations! I must admit, I did laugh at a few terms, like \u2019emoji\u2019 (which has no official translation), \u2019emoticon\u2019 (\u2018gwenoglun\u2019 or \u2018smiley face\u2019), and \u2018wearable tech\u2019 (\u2018technoleg gwisgadwy\u2019).\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Marcus Davage, Code Club volunteer & Welsh translation volunteer<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We\u2019re thankful to Marcus and Julia and to all the teachers and volunteers in Wales who bring coding skills to the young people in their schools.<\/p>\n

Get involved in Code Club, in Wales or elsewhere<\/h2>\n

Keen readers may have noticed that this year marks the tenth anniversary of Code Club! We have lots of celebrations planned for the worldwide community of volunteers and learners, in long-running clubs as well as in brand-new ones.<\/p>\n

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So now is an especially great time to get involved by starting a Code Club at your school, or by signing up to volunteer at an up-and-running club. Find out more at codeclub.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And if you\u2019re interested in learning more about Code Club in Wales, email us at support@codeclub.org<\/a> so Sarah can get in touch.<\/p>\n

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