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It’s 4pm on a Tuesday in London’s Soho and a number of men are gathering around an entrance in Great Windmill Street chatting away like a group of soldiers on leave looking for a big night out. Surprisingly, instead of looking for alternative pleasures available in this part of London, these particular men are parents. They are waiting to pick up their children from the Soho Parish School, a small Church of England school that is open to anybody who lives in the local area. Soho isn’t known for being particularly family-friendly, but it is also an area of extensive social housing and Chinatown where many Chinese families live above their restaurants. The school serves all these communities and with class sizes limited to 20 children, the school is prospering and preparing their kids for a bright future. Moreover, the school is also preparing these kids for a digital future as one of the original pilot schools of Code Club, a (now) nationwide network of volunteer-led after school coding clubs for 9 to 11-year-old-children. Set up this year in April, a pilot that was launched in 22 schools now has 264 participating schools and 2,000 volunteers working on one project per week. Kids in Code Clubs are learning to code, not by being confused by HTML and algebra, but by making applications, the majority of which are games. (via The future for British kids begins with Code Club - Telegraph)

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