The Hour of Code

Today our Out of School Club took part in the 'Hour of Code' event organised by Code.org, our youngest programmer was only 5 years old. Our group managed to complete all 20 puzzles in less than the hour.

Several of our participants have already asked to continue with the course and we will keep you updated with their progress.

#HourofCode

CLUB 0-14 Easter holidays 2012

Book and pay for your days before 6pm Friday March 23^rd 2012 and receive 15% discount on our normal daily rate (trip costs not included)

	Monday 2nd	Tuesday 3rd	Wednesday 4th	Thursday 5th
7am-8.30am	Breakfast and early morning chill out time (free play)
AM	Fun and games in the park then Chinese for lunch £3.50	Cinema       £6.00 10-12pm ‘The Pirates an adventure with scientists’  by the makers of Wallace and Gromit Special offer - £10.00 cinema only deal 10am til 12pm	Park hall farm £6.00 Lamb feeding, pig racing, pony grooming and lots of small animals, adventure play area 9am to 3pm	Jungle land Telford £4.00 9am to 3pm Giant indoor safari soft play and the Animal man
PM	Easter Egg trail Make your basket to get the clues to find your eggs	Egg race challenges Devised by Paul! Mini egg prizes
			A range of Easter games and activities will be going on	A range of Easter games and activities will be going on
5-6pm	Chill out time (free play)

	Tuesday 10th	Wednesday 11th	Thursday 12th	Friday 13th	Monday 16th PD day
7am-8.30am	Breakfast and early morning chill out time (free play)
AM	Activities at Attingham Park 9am to 3pm	CrockyTrails      £9.00 lots of rides and thrills Come and join Paul for this great day out Leaving at 9am Returning at 5pm Please send your child with a change of clothes and shoes as they may get very muddy!	Spring candle making Eggs, chicks, rabbits you decide	Trip to Weston Park        £3.00 9-3pm Adventure playground- zip wires, climbing walls and much more	Picnic and games at Cardingmill Valley 9am to 3pm Don’t forget to wrap up warm and bring a change of clothes
			1pm-3pm Quasar    £4.00 Minimum of 4 children have to be 8yrs and 5ft to go OR Bowling      £4.00 Children under 8 yrs
PM	A range of Easter games and activities will be going on			A range of Easter games and activities will be going on	A range of Easter games and activities will be going on
5-6pm	Chill out time (free play)

Rasterizing Images

Today we worked with images using a rasterizing engine. This takes an ordinary image like this.

Our starter image

and then converts into an image that looks like this.

our finished wall art

Basically the software converts the image to dots, like you would see in a newspaper and then spreads them apart to create a massive image - in our case over 1.5m wide.

Photo Exhibition

New Out of School facility taking shape



Here is the main room at the new 'Teens' facility. You can see the Nintendo Wii on the left and X-Box 360 with Kinect sensor on the right.

Also new is the table football game which sees quite a lot of use during the week.

We have just finished putting down the new carpet tiles to provide a comfortable and very colourful floor surface.

The two large tables can be used for everything from arts and crafts to catching up with tonights homework. We even have a stock of jigsaw puzzles and a copy of the world's largest wordsearch book.

This image shows the soft play end of the main room, where the kids can let off a little steam on the padded mats. We also have two computer rooms, complete with a range of music and photography equipment as well as a kitchen/dining room. There is an outside area that can be used with a baskeball hoop and football net. In the pipeline are plans to develop a 'chill out' room with custom seating and access to the BBC iPlayer to allow kids to catch up with their favourite shows.