Workshop Provider: FUZE Technologies

Workshop Themes & Tags: Coding, Computing, Programming and STEM

Age Suitability: Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4

Can your workshop be delivered to schools online?: No

Delivery Locations: South West England, South East England, London & Home Counties, East of England, West Midlands, North West England, Yorkshire & Humber, North East England

Workshop Summary:

 FUZE Coding Workshops ensure three core fundamental coding principles are understood. These are LOOPS, VARIABLES and IF THEN conditional statements. The importance of these principles cannot be overstated. They represent the foundation of almost every programming language ever devised and as such even a basic understanding lowers the barriers to learning more advanced languages in later years.

In all other subjects, children start with the basics, move into the middle ground and then onto more advanced levels. Of course, if we started kids on Ladybird books and jumped straight to Tolstoy, we’d have a serious problem.
However, this seems to be the case with coding. It is the common-ground to start with tools like Scratch and other ‘block based’ environments and then move onto Python and other real-world languages.
There’s nothing wrong with either platform, just that quite simply, the gap between them is far too wide and as such we are likely to lose many potential candidates on the way.

FUZE provides a transition between these two environments and in doing so lowers the barriers to entry of the real-world languages. Without a reasonable understanding of the core coding principles, Python and C etc. can look extremely complicated. However, by learning in the middle ground with FUZE things start to fall into place.

It’s no different to human languages as learning just a few words can help make a page of foreign text far more accessible and less daunting. It’s the same across all subjects, and it is something FUZE is proving time and time again, is missing from the computing curriculum.

Students can learn text-based coding from as young as seven as long as it’s presented in an accessible format and within the middle-ground.

Additional Information: 

We charge £750 per individual day (exclusive of VAT). For two consecutive days it’s £700 per day. Three or more consecutive days are £650 per day. There can be additional considerations for distance and accessibility. This is usually around 10% for inside the M25 or anything over 100 miles each way.

I hope this provides the information you require, and that it meets with your content and financial expectations.

Testimonials: 

''The whole class, regardless of prior knowledge, experience or confidence, remained engaged throughout and each one left the venue having made progress and having developed further knowledge and understanding.
I would recommend the FUZE centre to any teacher looking to ensure that the computing objectives set out in the National Curriculum are fulfilled and in particular to schools unable to provide the equipment to deliver the objectives on their own premises.”

—John Ronane, Ickford Academy

”I was struck by how much fun the children were having. They were learning, the room was loud, full of energy, excitement and laughter. Every child was engaged and enthralled. I would urge any school looking to enhance its teaching in this field to take a look and get Team FUZE into their school for a workshop.”

—Rt Hon, John Bercow