Scratch Coding Club for Kids
Scratch Club in Wellesley
First steps in code — and one of our award-winning tracks.
- Boston Parents Family Favorite seven years running
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- FIRST LEGO League & VEX Judges Award
- State finalists, FLL & VEX
- STEM.org accredited
- CSTA & NGSS aligned
Clubs 2026–27 · iCode of WellesleyStarts Sat 26 Sep
Scratch — enroll now
- Dates
- September 2026 to June 2027
- Day & time
- Saturdays, 2:00–3:00 pm
- Format
- One hour a week
- Ages
- 5–11
- Location
- 73 Central Street, Wellesley
$199 a month · second club $180 a month
Ten payments, September to June
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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 do clubs run?
Clubs run September 2026 to June 2027, one hour a week. This club runs Saturdays, 2:00–3:00 pm, at 73 Central Street, Wellesley. It starts Saturday 26 September and runs to 1 July 2027.
What does it cost?
$199 a month, one hour a week, one topic. You pay for ten months, September to June — July and August are not billed, because clubs do not run then. Taking a second club at the same time? $180 a month for each extra one. Brothers and sisters get 5% off, and that comes off both prices. Materials are included. Stop any time with 30 days’ notice — no term to see out, no penalty, no phone call you have to win. Nothing renews on its own in September; every family chooses again each year.
How is a club different from the Belt Program?
A club is one hour a week, 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. AI Studio is one hour a week, self-paced, with the work tuned to your child by their instructor. Plenty of students do more than one.
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. We run on school holidays too — a day off school is not a day off club. We are closed 24 December to 7 January.
Can we stop?
Yes. Stop any time with 30 days’ notice — no term to see out, no penalty, no phone call you have to win. Email wellesley107@icodeschool.com, or the Managing Director, Soundarya Ganesh, at soundarya.ganesh@icodeschool.com.
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.
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Book a free evaluation and we will tell you honestly which track your child belongs in — or enroll straight away.
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