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Scratch Club in Wellesley
First steps in code — and one of our award-winning tracks.
- Boston Parents Family Favorite 2020–2026
- Macaroni Kids Favorite 2026
- FIRST LEGO League & VEX Judges Award
- State finalists, FLL & VEX
- STEM.org accredited
- CSTA & NGSS aligned
Fall 2026 Term · iCode of WellesleyStarts Sep 28
Scratch — enroll now
- Dates
- Sep 28, 2026 – Dec 7, 2026
- Day & time
- Afternoons, Mon–Fri
- Sessions
- 10 sessions, one hour each
- Ages
- 5–11
- Location
- 73 Central Street, Wellesley
$395 per ten-week term · second club $325
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Scratch is where most of our youngest students start. Blocks snap together instead of being typed, which means a five-year-old can build something that genuinely works without fighting punctuation at the same time.
What they are learning underneath is not simplified: sequence, loops, conditions, events and variables are the same ideas they will meet later in Python, just wearing a friendlier costume.
Tracks
Students enter at the level that matches their experience and move up as they are ready.
- Introduction — blocks, sequence, sprites, first animations
- Intermediate — game logic, scoring, variables, multiple levels
- Advanced — complex projects, cloning, lists — our award-winning track
What students actually learn
- Block-based coding and how instructions execute in order
- Animation and storytelling — making something that holds attention
- Breaking a big idea into small pieces that each work
- Debugging: reading what actually happened rather than what you meant
A brief, as students receive it
Make an animation where a character crosses the stage, meets something, and reacts. The reaction has to depend on what it met. Nothing may be positioned by guessing.
We give the requirements, not the steps. Working out how is the lesson — and the reason students can explain what they built when they get home.
The question parents actually ask
“Isn’t this just an app they could use at home for free?”
Scratch is free, and that is rather the point — nothing here is locked behind our door. What a term buys is a brief every week, an instructor who will not tell them the answer, and the habit of finishing something. Children rarely build that alone at a kitchen table.
Where it leads
Scratch graduates most often move into Python, where the same ideas appear as typed code. Some go straight to the Belt Program.
Questions
Does my child need to read well to start?
Not much — block labels are short, familiar words. Instructors read briefs aloud in the youngest groups, and nothing in the introduction track depends on typing speed.
What if they have already done Scratch at school?
Then they will most likely start in Intermediate. School Scratch is usually a guided walkthrough; ours is a brief with requirements and no steps, which is a different exercise entirely.
When does the term run?
The Fall 2026 Term runs Sep 28, 2026 to Dec 7, 2026 — 10 sessions, one hour a week, at 73 Central Street, Wellesley.
What does it cost?
$395 for the ten-week term. A second club in the same term is $325. Materials are included.
How is a club different from the Belt Program?
A club is one hour a week for ten weeks, in a larger group, focused on one topic. The Belt Program is two hours a week across a ten-month year, in a group of about six, with a written progress report every month and a capstone project. Plenty of students do both.
What if we need to miss a week?
Tell us in advance and we will place your child in another group that week where the schedule allows. Vacation weeks are already excluded from the term dates above.
Where you’ll be
iCode of Wellesley · 73 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02482
781-291-3131
Five minutes from Wellesley Middle School and a short drive from Schofield, Bates, Hardy, Hunnewell and Upham. Street parking on Central Street, plus the Municipal Way lot behind the building for pickup.
Ready to start?
Book a free evaluation and we will tell you honestly which track your child belongs in — or enroll straight into the Fall 2026 Term.
Enroll in the Fall 2026 Term
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