Coding Resources
Coding resources
Be inspired to embrace coding with our 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 TurtleStitchLink 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, technology, and computing knowledge to design a creative output is both innovative and valuable to students’ learning. Patterns produced in TurtleStitch can be sewn onto fabric using a digital embroidery machine.
BBC micro:bit
We regularly work with BBC micro:bit to teach students how to write code, combine components, and create a network of devices that communicate with each other.
These creations can be functional or artistic — or both! We have Smart Cities and Mechanical Flowers.
Explore our online resources for BBC micro:bit.Link opens in a new window
STEM Escape Box
This box is designed to spark your Year 5 and 6 pupils' interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths) subjects in a fun and challenging way. Over approximately one- to two-hour-long sessions, they will solve STEM puzzles spanning everything from electricity to space while discovering famous female scientists. Students will also develop 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.Link opens in a new window
TurtleStitch
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.