Coding Resources
Coding Resources
National Coding Week 2025
Since National Coding Week is 15th-22nd September 2025, we wanted to share some of our coding resources for young people, schools, and teachers!
Teacher CPD
WMG Outreach will be running a CPD session for teachers to explore how code, geometry, and embroidery intersect in an engaging educational activity for students. We will give an introduction to using Turtlestitch (www.turtlestitch.orgLink opens in a new window) – a free, browser-based, block-code platform that gives students the opportunity to create beautiful patterns with their knowledge of functional maths. Applying maths, design and technology, and computing knowledge to design a creative output is innovative and valuable to students’ learning. Patterns produced in TurtleStitch can be sewn onto fabric using a digital embroidery machine.
Find out more about our Turtlestitch training and register interest in this CPD session.
Microbit Resources
We regularly work with BBC Microbits to teach students how to write code, combine components, and create a network of devices communicating with each other.
These creations can be functional, or artistic, or both! We have Smart Cities and Mechanical Flowers.
STEM Escape Box
This box is designed to spark your Year 5 and 6 pupils' interests for STEM subjects in a fun and challenging way. Over approximately one to two hours long session, they will try to solve puzzles in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths including topics such as electricity, space whilst discovering more about famous women scientists. Your pupils/children will also stretch key skills such as problem solving and understanding and analysing data to support their transition to secondary school.
Solve the puzzles to find the answer inside the STEM Escape Box.
Turtlestitch Resources
TurtlestitchLink opens in a new window is used by WMG for outreach activities, as a means of raising awareness of the breadth of engineering. The WMG Outreach team has created a number of resource cards and video tutorials to support its use by teachers, parents and students, including maths task cards suitable for upper key stage 2 (school years 5 and 6). Children work out the answers to maths questions and check them using Turtlestitch.