Codingbug was founded in 2012 by Gicela Morales when her daughters were at primary school. Learning to code wasn’t part of the curriculum in the UK and Gicela set up the first after school coding club at her daughters’ school. This proved very popular and since then, the clubs have been attended by hundreds of students in North Somerset and more recently, further afield.

In North Somerset, Codingbug has worked with a number of schools, including Mary Elton Primary School, Backwell Junior School, Yatton Infants and Juniors, Winscombe Primary School and Backwell Secondary School.

Children have learned to program with Scratch, created their own mobile apps with JavaScript, made their own web pages, learnt to code with the micro:bit and how to program in Python. 

Since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, Codingbug has offered a range of after school courses online. These online courses have also proved popular and continue to inspire children to experiment with code.

Working with partners

Codingbug delivered a successful series of clubs and workshops for North Somerset Council over a period of six months at their local libraries as part of their Learn to Code program. The sessions were tailored for primary school children.

Codingbug has also worked with the SS Great Britain Trust to deliver a series of workshops for secondary school students as part of their Future Brunels Programme.

Summer of Code

Codingbug has run a few successful Summer of Code events in partnership with local business. Read more about these. If you would like to be part of the next Summer of Code, get in touch.

About the Tutor

Gicela is an electronics engineer with many years of commercial experience as a web developer. Gicela has been teaching primary and secondary school children since 2012 and holds a current DBS certificate.

“I received tutoring from Gicela throughout my GCSEs, during which she was a great tutor and helped me develop my programming skills far beyond the course. It put me far ahead of the class and no doubt contributed a large part to my grade 9 in Computer Science GCSE, of which a large part of the course is programming” – GCSE Student.