Code Club Resources

Kick off a World Cup coding challenge at your Code Club!

Football fever is spreading across the globe, and your Code Club can join in the fun too.

We’ve rounded up 3 football-inspired projects that let creators score goals, design kits, and predict winners — all while building their coding skills. Which one will you set as a challenge in your Code Club?

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Beat the goalie

Can you beat the keeper? In ‘Beat the goalie’, you build a Scratch football game where you aim, kick, and try to score a goal before time runs out. Add sounds and scoring as you explore key presses, sprite interactions, sensing, variables, and game logic.

A cartoon robot goalkeeper wearing a green jersey with the number 1 stands in front of a soccer goal on a light green background.

Kit chooser

Create the ultimate team look in ‘Kit chooser’, where you design your own football strip in Scratch using colours, patterns, and custom styling. Turn kit design into code as you work with sprites, costumes, broadcasts, variables, loops, and conditionals.

Two purple sports jerseys displayed, one facing front and the other back, with a color palette on the side.

Match predictor

Who will win the World Cup? In ‘Match predictor’, you use a micro:bit to build a gadget that randomly predicts the winner of a football match. Choose your teams, test your code in MakeCode, and explore button input, lists, randomness, strings, and transferring code onto physical hardware.

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Celebrate success with certificates

Every great tournament ends with a celebration! Encourage club members to share their completed projects and award certificates to recognise their creativity, teamwork, and problem-solving.  

We have a selection of ‘recognition certificates’ perfect for these football themed projects: 

Four colorful certificate templates from Code Club featuring space for a child's name, project name, and accomplishments like problem-solving and coding skills.

Enjoyed these football-inspired projects? Discover even more sports-themed activities on our projects site.

Bring environmental topics into your Code Club

Did you know World Environment Day has been marked by the United Nations since 1972? It takes place every year on 5 June to raise awareness of the environmental challenges facing our planet.

It’s a great opportunity to give young people space to explore the issues that matter to them, and to see how technology can be part of the solution, while building skills and sharing their ideas about the planet

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Coding for creativity, conversation, and change

Our ‘Protect our planet’ project collection is designed to do just that — encourage exploration, spark discussion, and support learners at every level.

Whether your club includes beginners or more experienced coders, there’s something for everyone to create, experiment with, and make their own.

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Projects to try in your club

Here are a few projects you can explore with your learners:

Green goals
Create an animation while learning about the United Nations’ environment-focused Sustainable Development Goals.

Save the shark
Build a game to help a shark survive plastic pollution, highlighting the impact of waste on ocean habitats.

Electricity generation
Create a data visualisation using real-world data to compare how countries generate electricity.

Explore the full project collection in your Code Club.

Meet creator April! 

April is a creator from Code Club Australia, and invites you to try ‘Drone planting’ — a beginner Scratch project inspired by real drones used to restore forests and bushland lost to fires in Australia.

Through the project, young people can explore how technology can help tackle real-world environmental challenges.

Starting the conversation in your Code Club

Code Clubs are a great space to start conversations about issues that matter to young people, and to explore how technology can help address them.

The ‘Protect our planet’ projects are a great conversation starter. You could ask your learners:

  • What do you think are the biggest challenges facing the natural world?
  • What small actions can we take to help the environment?
  • How could technology be used to solve environmental problems?

You might also:

  • Encourage learners to create a project about an issue they care about
  • Support them to share their ideas through storytelling and design
  • Give them time to reflect and discuss their perspectives
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World Environment Day isn’t about having all the answers — it’s about giving young people the chance to explore, create, and be heard.

Inspire your learners to take action — explore the ‘Protect our planet’ project collection and start building projects that make a difference.

A Code Club for every community: Our new offer for trusts and local authorities

Last year we announced a bold ambition — to see a Code Club in every school and library across the UK. Today we’re excited to announce the next step in this journey — a package of support for multi academy trusts and local authorities who are interested in establishing Code Clubs across their network.

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Why this is important

Feedback from educators, as well as independent research, tells us that Code Club works. Not only does it help young people develop their programming skills, but it also builds life skills like confidence, resilience and problem solving. We also know that to achieve our aims, we need to have a great package for trusts and local authorities that makes it easy to get new Code Clubs up and running.

Grounded in feedback

Over the past year, we’ve worked with teachers, librarians, and school leaders across the UK to explore how we can make it easier to support organisations to set up Code Clubs at scale.

Part of this work saw us partner with teachers from Three Spires Trust — a Church of England multi academy trust in Staffordshire — for a hands-on training day focused on the practical side of setting up new Code Clubs. Together, we explored the value of Code Club, how to structure sessions, how to use technologies like Scratch and the micro:bit in non-formal settings, and how to navigate common challenges of running a club.

By the end of the day, teachers felt more confident and better equipped to run Code Clubs in their own settings.

“This initiative will empower our pupils with the digital skills they need for the future, opening doors to creativity, problem solving, and innovation” – Chris Leek, Head of ICT & Systems at Three Spires Trust

Following the training, the Trust established six Code Clubs across its academies and has since brought creators together through a trust-wide coding competition led by the King’s CofE Academy Code Club.

This impact, moving from initial training to embedded, scalable delivery, is what we aim to support more organisations to achieve across the UK.

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An offer that works for you

Code Club is already free — which is a great foundation — but for new Growth Partners, we’re pleased to offer you:

  • A dedicated member of our team to work with you to get new Code Clubs up and running
  • Training for your team on how to run a great Code Club experience
  • Exclusive partner logos to use on your website and social posts
  • Resources to promote and celebrate your clubs and the chance to be included in our global communications
  • Priority places at our community events
  • Access to a digital platform to monitor and manage your clubs
  • A welcome pack including some of our most popular resources
  • And of course, easy to follow projects for your young people, including our collection of AI projects
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We’re just getting started, you can too!

This is just the beginning. As we develop new partnerships across the UK, we are committed to developing this package of support even further, listening to the advice you give us. Code Club is about more than just coding — it’s about giving every child essential life skills, and helping them have fun along the way. 

Contact us today to learn more about how we can work together to give every young person the opportunity to be part of Code Club