The Hour of Code - March 2014

Just One Hour is all it takes..... Be part of the Coding revolution and create a foundation for success in your school.

All UK schools' can begin to get ready for NC 2014 Coding with the Hour of Code - details can be obtained and shared in this online PDF.
Register your interest to participate here.

The 25th Anniversary of the World Wide Web.
Code.org is launching the UK Hour of Code from March 3rd - 7th 2014, as part of the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the creation of the World Wide Web by the ultimate UK coder, Tim Berners-Lee. Hour of Code is geared to encourage interest in computer science and show that anyone can learn the basics. 

Review of the National Curriculum

The Hamilton Trust write:

Dear users & Friends of Hamilton,

WE WANT YOUR OPINION

As you probably know, the government released the Report of the Expert Group looking at the review of the National Curriculum. The report makes many important recommendations which, if accepted, will have profound effects on primary education. 
We know you are busy busy busy and do not have time to download reports of 80+ pages but we do think that it is vital that opinions from those at the chalk face are heard by DfE and ministers. So we have copied some of the more important recommendations (such as the suggestion that Levels are scrapped hence getting rid of APP...) into a survey and ask that you take five minutes to look at this and comment. You can literally do this in 5 minutes if you choose. SO PLEASE GIVE US YOUR OPINIONS and we will faithfully collate them and feed these back to DfE with whom we have excellent contacts.

Find the survey here.

All the best
Ruth Merttens

For further information please email enquiries@hamilton-trust.org.uk