Explorers · ages 6–8 · Grades 1–3
How do machines think?
Explorers is where six-to-eight-year-olds discover that machines follow rules, that computers can learn from examples, and that they can make a machine do what they imagine. Half of every session is away from screens.
- Ages
- 6–8 · Grades 1–3
- Session
- 60 minutes, once a week
- Group
- 6 to 8 children, two adults in every room
- Balance
- About 85% coding, 15% AI
- Term
- Ten weeks is one level. Three levels in the band.
Explorers
What your child will learn
- To give precise instructions and fix them when they go wrong, which is the heart of coding.
- To build animated stories and simple games in ScratchJr, using events, loops and messages.
- How machines sense the world, and how a computer can be taught to recognise things from examples.
- That machines make mistakes, why bad examples cause them, and what fair and unfair mean for a machine.
- To explain and present what they made: two confident sentences in front of an audience.
What they will make
- A floor-robot treasure map with a program written on paper and tested on the floor.
- A three-page animated ScratchJr story with their own voice recordings.
- An interactive scene where characters react to taps and to each other.
- Level 2, a game with a character that reacts. Level 3, an invention that helps at home, pitched in one minute.
A story that talks back
How it runs
- 60-minute sessions, once a week, in a 10-week term. One level per term, three levels in the band.
- Groups of 6–8 with two adults. Roughly half of each session is unplugged: robots, cards, role-play.
- No reading required to take part. Every activity is icon-based or spoken.
- Ends with the Robot Parade: parents come, children present, and every child earns the term badge.
Who it is for: No prior experience needed. Emerging readers are fine. A child who already uses ScratchJr confidently can enter at Level 2 after a 20-minute placement session.
Levels are terms
The three levels
One level is one 10-week term. Children move up by readiness, not just by birthday.
Level 1
Robot Rules
Instructions, sequencing and first ScratchJr stories. Machines follow rules and learn from examples.
They make: A floor-robot treasure map and a three-page animated story, presented at the Robot Parade.
Level 2
Pattern Detectives
Patterns, loops and conditions. How a computer learns from patterns. A game with a character that reacts.
They make: A ScratchJr game with reacting characters, plus a class-designed teach-the-computer demo.
Level 3
Little Inventors
Design thinking, lightly: a problem at home, a helper built with ScratchJr or a floor robot, and AI helpers around us.
They make: An invention with a real input, a poster and a one-minute pitch.
Safe by design
Safety and AI use
- Children never log into any AI tool. The instructor drives AI demonstrations on the big screen.
- No photos of children are ever used to train anything. Models are trained on toys, gestures and sounds.
- Two vetted adults in every room, and written parental consent for photos and videos.
What comes home
- 01
A 60-second clip of your child showing their work, every week, plus one dinner-table question.
- 02
A skills map with the stickers they earned and the AI Passport stamps they collected.
- 03
The term badge and a link to their portfolio.
Every term
Ends with the Robot Parade
Parents come, children premiere their stories and run their treasure maps live, and every child earns the term badge.
Holiday camps
Holiday camp
Robot Week
Five mornings of floor robots, ScratchJr stories and treasure maps, with screens never more than half the day, ending in a Robot Parade for parents.
Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 14:00 · Dates coming soon
Questions about Explorers
Does my child need to be able to read?
No. Instructions are spoken, icon-based and demonstrated.
How much screen time is there?
Roughly half of every session is away from screens, with robots, cards and role-play.
Join the founding families
We are opening our first cohorts in Dubai. Join the waitlist and we will message you first about free Open Build sessions and term dates.
Dates coming soon · Dubai, UAE