What seems to happen when they come to do edublocks is they’ve not really learned any core programming concepts from their scratch experience. This is despite them being referred to explicitly when the learning is happening. [2/?]

Rewrote my sow's to explicitly teach core concepts & skills using the PRIMM framework. Much better now, but retention still affected by the sheer lack of time we get at KS3. This stuff only sticks if you practice a lot.

I found that early on in my move from ICT to computing. Concentrated too much on games/engagement instead of foundations.