The new St Edmund’s Code Academy club has started for Year 7 ‘Gifted and Talented’ pupils. Running Tuesday and Thursday lunchtimes, pupils are programming Raspberry Pi computers, creating games in ‘Scratch’ and controlling hardware in ‘Python’.

The group are learning how computers work, accelerating their understanding of the fundamentals of computer programming (see photographs below). In addition they have the opportunity to program a drone to follow their instructions.

We may have the programmers of the future, here at our academy!