Building Confidence With Code
Learning to code isn't just about developing programming skills, it can also help our members build their confidence when it comes to other parts of their lives! Read the blog to find out how...
Imagine for a second, you’re sat in a class of 20-30 people, and the teacher has just called on you to read a text in a language you’ve never seen before. Would you have the confidence to either speak up and say you couldn’t? Or to try your best anyway?
While we here at The Code Zone can't teach you Ancient Latin so you can ace that class, we can help you build confidence through the power of coding! Obviously the main thing that our members are going to get more confident in is their ability to read and write code, but this also trickles down through almost every aspect of their life too!
Boosting Reading and Writing Skills
A big part of coding is reading and writing, so we take the time in our clubs to make everything nice and easy to understand in the lower levels to build confidence as we work up to the harder written prose of pseudocode!
Developing Social Skills in a Welcoming Environment
We also build confidence with social skills, as our online live clubs are small in numbers, you never have to worry about lots of people hearing or seeing any mistakes, just a small group of supportive members with a helpful STEM certified mentor to guide you in a judgement free zone!
Overall our sessions fill the members that take part in them with a myriad of transferable skills that they can use to be more confident in their day to day life!
Want to find out more and try a session out for yourself? Sign up for a free taster session today and see how we can inspire confidence through coding!
Who wrote this
We run coding clubs for children aged 6 to 16, so the guides here are written by the mentors who teach them rather than by a marketing team. Live online clubs are open to children anywhere in the UK, and our in-person clubs run across Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk.
A live club is one hour a week, in a group of no more than six, with the same DBS-checked, STEM-certified mentor.
Children build their own games rather than working through a set course, starting in Scratch or MakeCode and moving to Python and TypeScript when they are ready. More than a third of our members are autistic or have ADHD, based on what parents tell us when they join.
Mentors write a note on every child after every session, which is how we know when somebody is ready to move up a level or would rather stay where they are. Levels move down as readily as up. Nothing is forced, and staying put is a perfectly good outcome.
In 2026 we were ranked second in the UK in Club Hub UK’s Top 100 Children’s Activity Providers, scored by five independent judges on safeguarding, inclusivity and community impact, and in 2025 we received the Autism Inclusion Award from the National Autistic Society. Over 1,000 children are enrolled.
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The blog is in two halves. Guides are the evergreen explainers written by the mentors who teach the clubs, covering the questions parents actually ask: what comes after Scratch, how to support a coding-mad child when you cannot code yourself, and what works for autistic and ADHD children.
Club news is the other half, and it is where posts like this one live: game jams, Minecraft builds and weekly roundups, written up by whoever ran the session. Neither is marketing. If you want to know what an hour actually looks like before you book anything, club news is the more honest read of the two.
The first session is a free taster and we do not ask for card details. Book a free taster session, see what it costs, or read about support for neurodivergent children.
