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Today, for many in the UK, is the start of the autumn half-term break... and being a business that wholeheartedly embraces the culture of flexible working, we have some team members who don't work school holidays, some working from home, some reducing hours, and some shifting their work around the needs of their family. Flexible working has been part of our strategy since conception and we're proud to be able to offer this approach to all the team - from CEO to contractors. As advocates for female empowerment in the workforce and a women-led organisation with predominantly (although not exclusively) women employees, fostering a culture where work is balanced with the needs of the primary carer and the family is of huge importance to us. And this valued approach has, in turn, grown a wonderfully supportive environment. At Get with the Program we offer our staff the following flexibility, should they need it: 🔸 Full time, part time, or contract positions, including job shares 🔸 Term-time only roles 🔸 School hour days 🔸 Blend of in-person and virtual meetings 🔸 Flexi-days Our flexible approach also extends to the goal of minimising the encroachment of work into personal time. Working effectively and collectively means that we are able to switch off and step back from work, helping us to keep creative and productive whilst reducing the risk of burn-out. To us, flexible working is all about promoting a positive work-life balance, enabling a healthy team, whilst at the same time being an attractive employer for the wealth of talent who struggle to thrive in a business who only offer a rigid and somewhat out-dated 9-5 working environment and we're proud that it is one of our 8 Pillars supporting who we are as a business. #8Pillars #FlexibleWorking #WomenLedBusiness #WomenInBusiness #FlexiWorking #WorkLifeBalance #GetwiththeProgram #GWTP

📣 Calling all forward-thinking, community minded businesses who want to actively make a change to the potential digital skills gap of the future... NOW is the time to act! No matter the size of your company, you can make a difference. From sole traders & small to medium enterprises (SMEs), to large ones ... if you're passionate about supporting STEM learning and helping to inspire the tech innovators of the future, then we'd love to include you in our roll call of fabulous sponsors! With the end of year fast approaching, schools are looking for fun and engaging ways to keep excited children focused on the curriculum. And we have the perfect solution! Our AL the Robot and the Three Bears Panto Coding Adventure is now ready for this Christmas and makes for a fabulous educational gift! Our unique Three Bears Panto Coding Adventure takes 5–9 year-olds on an exciting, creative and fun journey into tech – using inclusive role models and smashing stereotypes along the way! Working together with ‘Professor’ Trice and AL the Robot, children learn to design, write, test and debug algorithms in this unique adventure. But will the porridge be 'Just Right' in time for baby bear?? We have the schools ready to run this virtual experience, all we need now is to match the funding to the school. This is where you step in! For details of how you can gift a coding adventure this Christmas, please visit: https://lnkd.in/defs2kFx or email: getintouch@getwiththeprogram.org.uk #SoleTraders #SMB #SME #LargeEnterprise #ESG #Community #STEMLearning #CorporateSponsorship #Sponsorship #LearningEnrichment #Education #Inspire #TechInnovators #DigitalSkillsGap #STEM #ChristmasGift #Christmas #CAS #Coding #Technology #Computing

We're looking forward to visiting the children at Warren Mead Infant and Junior School Partnership today to run an in-person, Healthy Lunch-Bot Coding Adventure live show! This show has been gifted to the children by their fabulous Parents and Friends Association (PTA) through an EU grant. Not only are the PFA supporting the children with enriching learning experiences, they are also helping us to inclusively inspire the tech innovators of the future! We can't wait to meet you all! #HealthyLunchBot #CodingAdventure #LearningEnrichment #CodingInSchools #CAS #ComputingInSchools #PTAFunded #PTA #PFA #Coding #Computing #STEMLearning

📣 We had a very exciting day at Get with the Program HQ as we successfully delivered our first secondary school coding adventure! Children from the Winston Churchill School in Woking were the first to embark on a Net Zero Coding Adventure which marks the culmination of the last 6 months work on content by the Get with the Program project team, our Net Zero Coding Adventure Bupa Advisory Board, and with the wonderful the support of VEX Robotics 🙌 Designed specifically for this older age group, our latest coding adventure takes 11-13 year olds on a 'tech for good' journey using data to help our planet, as they code a pathway to net zero! #NetZero #CodingAdventure #TechForGood #KS3 #CodinginSchools #CAS #CodinginSecondarySchools #SecondarySchoolEducation #EducationEnrichment #GWTP

Ho, ho, ho, nearly two months to go until Christmas day! The autumn term is racing along and soon the festive fun season will be upon us. Keeping little ones focused at school on the run up to the Christmas holidays is a super skill that our fabulous primary school teachers manage to pull out of the bag every year! This year, why not help your teachers with their planning of engaging classroom content at this busy time by nominating your school for a coding adventure! Our AL the Robot and the Three Bears Panto Coding Adventure is now ready for this Christmas and is perfect for introducing key computing terms to the younger ages in KS1 primary education (5-7 year olds) whilst embracing the end of year fun. Our unique Three Bears Panto Coding Adventure takes children on an exciting, creative and fun journey into tech – using inclusive role models and smashing stereotypes along the way! Working together with ‘Professor’ Trice and AL the Robot, children learn to design, write, test and debug algorithms in this unique adventure. And the best part of nominating your school for this amazing learning enrichment? It doesn't have to cost you or your school a penny! We have the most incredible team of sponsors, both businesses and individuals, who are ready to gift these sessions to schools and support not only the local community but also our mission to inclusively inspire the tech innovators of the future. To learn more and to nominate your school, please visit: https://lnkd.in/defs2kFx #ThreeBearsCodingAdventure #CodingAdventures #CodingatSchools #CAS #STEMLearning #STEM #PrimaryEducation #LearningEnrichment #Computing #ChristmasCodingPanto

Teachers! Ready, steady go - preparation materials are now ready for our next primary school Healthy Lunch-Bot FREE Bupa Coding Day - which is on Wednesday 13th November! If you have an account, you should have already received an email telling all about the the prep material (check your spam, just in case!) which you can access via: https://lnkd.in/eEVaRbEd If you haven't yet signed up or created an account, there's still time! In fact, anyone can nominate a UK primary school to take part - you don't have to be a teacher or even have a child at school to support your community accessing this fabulous FREE learning enrichment! Please visit: https://lnkd.in/een9EBWK to sign up. #BupaCodingDays #HealthyLunchBot #CodingAdventure #CodingInSchools #ComputingInSchools #LearningEnrichment #Coding #STEMLearning 

What a fabulous couple of days we've just had at the 'Make the Future Yours' careers event hosted at the Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre. It was so wonderful to meet lots of students who are considering careers in the aerospace, space, and defence industries and to connect with lots of companies in these areas. We'd like to extend our thanks to Brian Egels for bringing his VEX IQ kits to our stand for our 'Mars Rover' time trials. What a fun competition this was! Thank you to everyone who took part and congratulations to WW7 from Theale Green for the fastest time of 16.07 seconds 👏 To anyone who visited us and would like more information on what we do and how to be involved with our mission to inclusively inspire the tech innovators of the future, we'd love to chat further! Please feel free to drop us a DM or email: getintouch@getwiththeprogram.org.uk #MakeTheFutureYours #Aerospace #Space #Technology #Inspire #STEMCareers #TechInnovators VEX Robotics

What a fantastic time we had at the schools day at the end of the New Scientist Events Live weekend on Monday 14th October! We can't wait to be back next year! #NSL2024 #NewScientistLive #STEM #Space #Technology

Automate BEST members - we can't wait to show you what we've got planned for your family fun day during half term!!

Refuse Reduce Reuse....AND Recycle Today we celebrate the start of National Recycle Week ♻️ Running from 14th-20th September, this is a week concentrated on the promotion of a circular economy, one based on the reuse and regeneration of materials in an environmentally and sustainable way and focuses on the message of 'Rescue Me' to encourage more people to recycle the right items more often. As custodians of our planet, engaging children in the importance of sustainability, waste reduction, reducing carbon emissions, and looking after our environment from an early age, is key. And so too is the importance of understanding that technology can, and will, play a role in saving our planet in the future and that they can play a part in this too. 'The Environment' is one of the 8 Pillars of Get with the Program and our unique coding adventures get the environmental message across to children in a fun, creative way, focusing them on what they can do now, whilst also underlining how technology can be used to help us save our planet in the future. We have age-appropriate coding adventures focused on waste reduction (for 5-9 year-olds) and Net Zero (for 11-13 year-olds - launching fully in March 2025), all aligned with cross-curriculum environmental themes. The impact: 🔸 Children are focused on the importance of environmental action and stewardship, and understand what they can do right now to help the environment. 🔸 Children understand how technology could play a key role in protecting our environment in the future, and are encouraged to explore tech for good. 🔸 Parents and carers also get the message through our ‘at home’ activity focused on waste reduction. Ready to hear more about what we do at Get with the Program and support us to inclusively inspire the tech innovators of the future? Please visit: https://lnkd.in/eV-Bt8Kv or email: getintouch@getwiththeprogram.org.uk #NationalRecycleWeek #RecycleWeek #Recycle #TheEnvironment #EcoCoding #CodingAdventures #EdTech #STEMLearning #STEM #GWTP