What To Expect From A Code Zone Taster Session
Here at The Code Zone we offer one free session to give you a nice look at what you can expect from our online sessions!
Here at The Code Zone we offer one free session to give you a nice look at what you can expect from our online sessions! We thought we’d peel back the curtain and give you a glimpse into what you can expect from a taster session if you ever decide to do one.
The first thing to happen after you book yourself into a taster session is you’ll get some messages from your mentor welcoming you to The Code Zone alongside a video from that mentor explaining what will happen in your session.
Once the time of your session arrives (about 15 minutes before normal session times) all you have to do is log in and the video chat with your mentor will pop up, and you’ll be able to spend a bit of time getting to know both your mentor, and the way the technology for the video chats and sessions will work!
This is also a great time to ask any questions you may have, no matter how big or small, so we can give you the best experience possible.
After this 15 minute introduction, the main club will start, this is where you get to meet the other members of the club, get a proper introduction to the game of the week, and start following either the guided content, or your own personal ideas!
Throughout the hour long session, you can ask questions, chat to the mentor and other members, and just overall have fun relaxing and playing a game that you’ve made changes too!
After the session, you will also receive a short video message from the mentor showing off your game and letting you know how you got on. You will also continue to have access to the game you have worked on and the text chat so you can continue to talk to the mentors and ask questions in between sessions.
So that’s it! Our taster sessions are a fun, engaging way to get into the world of game dev club, if this has inspired you to take the first step in your coding journey, create an account and request your free taster now!
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.
