I've run lunchtime computer club for the last 3 years in Y3, Y4 and Y5. The children can do want they want subject to being sensible.

In the past after school we've done a series of using Word and PowerPoint plus doing a little work with the DigitalBlue cameras.

At my other school we done a lot with Microsoft PhotoStory.

I've just finished 6 weeks with Y2 doing an animation club. We bought some webcams and I used Microsoft Movie Maker to import all the photos and create a video from them.

After half term I'm doing the same with Y5.

I'd quite like to do some work with Scratch too. Maybe with Y6.

Do a poll of what interest them.

Games? Then how about a games / cheats database?

Cars? Speed, cost, acceleration fuel economy and stuff.

You can start off with an Excel spreadsheet and end up with a SQL database being accessed by a php web interface. Room enough for growth?

I did a few dinner time classes with some year 6 pupils. I got them into teams of about 4-5 and then got some oldish PCs out of the cupboard. I then let them take them apart and as we re-built them together we learnt about the parts, what they're called, how they go together etc.

I thought about what the pupils would need as they move to secondary school and i thought that skills to allow them to repair their computer at home would outweigh any learning of word-processing /spreadsheeting (they should learn this in lessons anyway) since it means the parents don't have to trundle off down to PC world and get ripped off for a simple job.

We finished to classes with a re-install of XP and how to configure the machine to boot from CD.

What was interesting though was how many girls i had in the classes. They were also genuinely interested.