Children as young as six are being taught the rudiments of computer coding. Annabel Miller visits a village school to find out how it’s done
THE first priest of Nympsfield in Gloucestershire was the aptly-named Adam the Clerk in 1185. A robin tends the churchyard, and there is a gorgeous country pub. It is the kind of classic English village in which Milly Molly Mandy might have lived, but were she there now, she would be learning to program a computer in the village school.St Joseph’s is a small but growing Catholic primary school, which is working hard to keep up with the latest developments in education. One of these is the new emphasis on computer code, as laid down in the latest national curriculum, published in 2013. I went to St Joseph’s to meet computing teacher
11 February 2016, The Tablet
Cracking codes for kids
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