Digital Schoolhouse

16/09/2026

This year, we crossed 400,000 students supported since our very first Digital Schoolhouse workshop back in 2015. 🎉

In 2025-26 alone: 48,130 children reached, 613 schools, 4,729 teachers, 1,090 workshops. 📖

Read the full story in our impact report - link in comments.

09/09/2026

🗣️ Our Programme Director, Shahneaila Saeed jumped on the Good Game Club Podcast to talk all things Digital Schoolhouse 🎉 :

✅ Why fun is fundamental to teaching
✅ How children need to see careers to go into them
✅ How her years as a teacher showed her that play-based learning was the way to go

Check it out here and drop your thoughts in the comments!

What if the best way to prepare children for a future shaped by AI ...

02/09/2026

Do the kids in your school love Roblox?

We’ve built Games Remix resources for teachers to turn that passion into curriculum-mapped Computing skills. These game design learning materials are 100% unplugged, offline, and completely free.

Get them here: https://zurl.co/Qu5Uc

12/08/2026

Big news! 🎉Digital Schoolhouse is teaming up with Roblox to bring free, game-based computing education to classrooms across the UK.

For millions of children, Roblox is already where they play, build, and create - so we're bringing that same creative energy into computing lessons, with free workshops based in Roblox Studio, (where children can learn how to build games), teacher training, and resources designed for every school, including unplugged workshop resources for those without reliable devices or internet access.

As Shahneila Saeed, our Programme Director, puts it: "Teachers have always known that to engage pupils, you begin with what they love."

Want to find out how your school can get involved? Read more here: https://www.digitalschoolhouse.org.uk/news/post/digital-schoolhouse-partners-with-roblox

22/07/2026

Our Programme Director, Shahneila Saeed, was delighted to be invited onto the Edufuturists podcast, to talk about

✅How play-based learning is rigorous pedagogy
✅How computing can be taught without a single computer
✅What the games industry can teach the classroom about preparing young people for the world as it actually is

You can watch it on Youtube here: https://zurl.co/H8bse

Or listen on Spotify here: https://zurl.co/jlcET

In this episode of the Edufuturists podcast, Ben and Steve sit down...

07/07/2026

Festival of Play London is a go!

300 schoolchildren have descended on University of Westminster for a day of playful computing and creative careers.

Magic, prizes and the people that make the world's best computer games - Best. School trip. Ever.

02/07/2026

Festival of Play Liverpool is here!

The fourth venue of our fifth year tour is well underway at North Liverpool Academy, with even more pupils enjoying playful computing and finding out about creative careers.

4 down, 1 to go, showing children that when it comes to computing, play is the way.

30/06/2026

🎮 First time in Wales!

We're thrilled that Digital Schoolhouse's Festival of Play in partnership with Electronic Arts is heading to Wales for the very first time - landing at Coleg Llandrillo, Rhos-on-Sea!

This free creative careers & computing conference brings hands-on workshops, industry talks, and hours of innovative gaming to students aged 9–14 - all exploring the exciting world of careers in video games.

✨ Learn the tech behind the games they love
✨ Meet professionals from the games industry
✨ Discover STEAM careers they never knew existed
✨ Get hands-on with creative tools and tech

📅 A huge moment for computing education in Wales – and all thank to Coleg Llandrillo and EA - Electronic Arts

🎮 Am y tro cyntaf yng Nghymru! Rydym yn hynod o gyffrous bod Festival of Play Digital Schoolhouse, mewn partneriaeth ag Electronic Arts, yn dod i Gymru am y tro cyntaf – a hynny yng Ngholeg Llandrillo, Llandrillo-yn-Rhos.

Mae’r gynhadledd gyrfaoedd creadigol a chyfrifiadura am ddim hon yn dod â gweithdai ymarferol, sgyrsiau diwydiant, ac oriau o gemau arloesol i ddisgyblion 9–14 oed – wrth archwilio maes cyffrous gyrfaoedd mewn gemau fideo.

✨ Dysgu am y dechnoleg y tu ôl i’r gemau maen nhw’n eu caru
✨ Cwrdd â gweithwyr proffesiynol o’r diwydiant gemau
✨ Darganfod gyrfaoedd STEAM nad oedden nhw’n gwybod oedd yn bodoli
✨ Cael profiad ymarferol gyda theclynnau a thechnoleg greadigol

📅 Mae hon yn foment enfawr i addysg gyfrifiadura yng Nghymru – ac mae’r cyfan yn ddiolch i Goleg Llandrillo ac Electronic Arts!

29/06/2026

No trains? No problem.

When our in-person Ingenuity Day got cancelled due to the extreme weather, we had to adapt quickly.

We moved the day onto Gather and managed to deliver a full day of Teacher CPD to our Lead Teachers.

Playful tech delivering important learning? Sounds like Digital Schoolhouse to me.

26/06/2026

Free Teacher CPD today 🔥

It's hot out there so we've moved out Playful Computing Conference online.

Listen to all of these amazing speakers for FREE.

Log on here from 10 am: https://zurl.co/ZedVg