Nicky's Computing Blog

Primary teachers have pounced on Scratch as a fun, easy to use programming language that neatly ticks off “computing” from their curriculum duties. It is fun, it is intuitive and the pupils like the bright colours and ease at which they can make a cat bounce around th...

Most primary students are now familiar with the basics of using Scratch and arrive at secondary school feeling they have "done that already". However, you may want to take their knowledge further by covering more advanced features in Scratch before they star...

A new 6-week unit which uses videos, questions and practical activities so that by the end of the unit your pupils will have learnt the basics of using Scratch 2. Includes teacher’s guide, student files, answer book and an attractive PowerPoint presentation and homewor...