BLCYear 8 — The Creative Coder & Digital Maker
Six terms, twenty lessons. You'll animate stories and games in Scratch, program real hardware with the micro:bit, build your own website in HTML, create with AI in Canva and Copilot, then take your first steps in Python — making something new to share in every single lesson.
Terms
Term 1
Lessons 1–4 · Scratch
Animate your first sprite, tell a 4-scene story, build an interactive quiz, and make a playable collect-the-item game.
Go to Term 1 →Term 2
Lessons 5–7 · micro:bit
Meet the BBC micro:bit, turn it into a temperature-based mood detector, then design your own physical computing project.
Go to Term 2 →Term 3
Lessons 8–10 · HTML
Build your first web page, add images, links and colour, then link two pages into a mini portfolio website.
Go to Term 3 →Term 4
Lessons 11–13 · AI & Canva
Create with Copilot and Canva's AI tools, question how far AI decisions can be trusted, then train your own AI model.
Go to Term 4 →Term 5
Lessons 14–18 · Scratch & Python
Upgrade your game with a timer, lives and clones, publish and showcase it, then write your first lines of Python.
Go to Term 5 →Term 6
Lessons 19–20 · Python
Build a 3-question Python quiz game, then showcase your favourite piece of work from the whole year.
Go to Term 6 →Progress overview
Tick off lessons as you complete them. This is saved in your browser only — it does not send anything to your teacher.
| Lesson | Title | Term | Done? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What is Scratch? Your First Animation | Term 1 | |
| 2 | Storytelling with Scratch | Term 1 | |
| 3 | Ask, Answer and Decide: An Interactive Quiz | Term 1 | |
| 4 | Building Your First Game | Term 1 | |
| 5 | Meet the micro:bit | Term 2 | |
| 6 | micro:bit as a Sensor: Mood Detector | Term 2 | |
| 7 | micro:bit Project: Make Something Useful | Term 2 | |
| 8 | What is HTML? Your Profile Page | Term 3 | |
| 9 | Images, Links and First Colour | Term 3 | |
| 10 | Building a Two-Page Portfolio Website | Term 3 | |
| 11 | AI as a Creative Partner | Term 4 | |
| 12 | Can We Trust AI? An Infographic | Term 4 | |
| 13 | Teach the Machine: Training Your Own AI Model | Term 4 | |
| 14 | Scratch Game Part 2: Timer, Lives and Clones | Term 5 | |
| 15 | Polish and Publish Your Scratch Game | Term 5 | |
| 16 | Scratch Showcase: Look Ahead to Python | Term 5 | |
| 17 | Python First Look: Hello, World | Term 5 | |
| 18 | Python: Build a Simple Calculator | Term 5 | |
| 19 | Python: Build a 3-Question Quiz Game | Term 6 | |
| 20 | Year-End Showcase and Reflection | Term 6 |