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Get ready for the new Academic Year with CAS Resources

As the new school year begins, empower your classroom with Computing at School (CAS) resources, designed to inspire and support teachers in delivering outstanding computing education. Whether you're revisiting core concepts or exploring new topics, CAS offers a wealth of curriculum-aligned materials, lesson plans, and professional development opportunities tailored to all levels of experience.

We've picked out some handy examples below, or click the link at the bottom to search the full library of resources at your fingertips!

Understanding "code smells" in programming

OCR Python and ERL programming help sheet

Secondary Leader's Toolkit

AI CPD framework for teachers

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Enhancing Digital Skills: Empowering Teachers for the Future

In this article, CAS' Becci Peters discusses the pivotal role of digital skills in education, particularly in the wake of the pandemic. Becci highlights the challenges teachers faced during the transition to online learning and emphasises the importance of continuous professional development. CAS offers a digital skills checklist to help educators assess and enhance their competencies in areas like cybersecurity, content creation and data management. This resource is aimed at empowering teachers to stay ahead in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

Upcoming Thematic Community events

CAS Secondary - Transition from Blocks to Text with EduBlocks

EduBlocks is a free tool that helps students make the transition from block-based programming to text-based programming with Python using a familiar drag-and-drop blocks system.

In this session, you'll have the opportunity to learn the basics of EduBlocks from the team that built it.

Event starts 19th September @ 4pm

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CAS AI - Oak Academy's AI Lesson Planning Tools

Oak National Academy has developed an AI lesson planning assistant tool that can help teachers create high-quality lessons and resources. The prompt-driven design allows teachers to tailor content for their classes and is designed to save time planning.

This session is an introduction for computing teachers interested in learning more about how the tool was designed and also how to use it to help them plan bespoke computing lessons.

Event starts 26th September @ 4pm

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CAS Physical Computing - LEGO Robotics - what do I do with this kit I've got

Find any LEGO robotics kits you have in your classroom / cupboards and bring one along to this session where Brian Egles will be talking us through what the kit is (if you don't know) and giving some ideas of how you can use them and where to find free resources.

If you're using LEGO robotics kits in your lessons / clubs please come along and share what you're using them for!

Event starts 2nd October @ 4pm

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Tools to assist in the classroom

Exciting News!

CAS has just launched a new collections of videos to help you master Microsoft Teams, Google Classroom and SeeSaw in the classroom. From collaboration tips to assignment organisation, these videos have got you covered.