Pick up an iced bun at the bakery; go shoe shopping; pay your bills at the bank. No this isn’t a list of weekend activities. This is the EaRL Street Scene Mat from Hope Education (61.5 x 122cm), the perfect accessory to be used with EaRL Coding Robot for a cross-curricular approach to programming.

The Street Scene Map can be used to teach all sorts of skills including communication in a real-life context. Program EaRL to take a trip to the shops and use this cute coding robot to teach modern foreign languages, role play, counting money and giving change.

• Use EaRL Street Scene Mat to teach cross-curricular coding and real-life context communication. You can even use EaRL’s sound recording feature to provide replies to the ‘shop keepers’!

• Incorporate coding into a variety of subjects and prepare the future coders and programmers of your classroom without the need for specialist computing knowledge.