All About Our Mentor's Role In Clubs!
Our mentors are at the core of what we do here, but exactly is their role in their clubs? Let's find out...
Here at The Code Zone, our mentors are at the core of what we do. Whether you join our live Game Dev Clubs to chat with your mentor every week or you receive regular video messages from your mentor in Game Dev Academy, we’re passionate about making sure that all of our members receive the support they need to progress on their coding journey.
This week, we’re here to tell you all about the role our mentors play in clubs and what exactly they do to make our clubs so much fun!
Introducing New Members to The Code Zone
When you log in for your first session, your mentor will be there to meet you 15 minutes before the other members join.
This means you’ll have lots of time to chat about your favourite video games, ask them any questions, and they’ll give you a tour of our platform!
This means that when the club opens for the other members, you’ll already have all of the tools you’ll need to hack, mod, and transform your own games.
Plus, at the end of your session they’ll send you a personalised video chatting about all the awesome code you built!
Fixing Bugs
Have you built your own custom hack that isn’t working in the way you expected? Have you tried to play your game but it just won’t start? Are you struggling to find the next coding block that you need?
Never fear, your mentor is here to help!
Running into bugs is an unavoidable part of any coder’s journey, but our mentors are always on hand to help you fix them.
Not only that, but our mentors are always excited to share why the bug occurred which means that you’ll know how to fix it if it pops up again in the future.
Personalised Learning
At The Code Zone, when you sign up for a club you’ll join the same mentor every single week.
This means that our mentors are able to get to know the members in their clubs and understand specific areas where their club members may need an extra helping hand.
Not only that, but each of our mentors bring their own unique flair to their clubs!
They are always keen to share ideas with each other so that every session is a fun and exciting way of learning how to code.
As you can see, our mentors are an incredibly important part of The Code Zone.
They’re responsible for introducing new members, helping with coding problems, and helping each individual member to get the most out of our clubs.
Want to find out more about our mentors? Click here to check out their profiles!
Ready to join one of our mentors in one of our Game Dev Clubs? Click here to book your FREE taster session.
Happy 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.
More like this
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.
