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1. Add the kids on the Roster: first names, and grade if you like (it only switches on easy reading for the youngest). Each kid gets an animal so non-readers can find their name.
2. Plan it the night before on Plan a session: pick the date, who's coming, the adults, how many iPads, and a warm-up. New kids all start at Step 1, so session one is usually one big group.
3. Print the session pack from the planner: agenda, station cards for iPads, worksheets with names filled in, answer keys, game cards and a check-off sheet. Name tents help everyone learn names.
4. Run it (45 minutes): warm-up (5) → teach “The Chessboard” with Present mode or a demo board (15) → the table game in pairs (10) → practice and pass check on iPads or worksheets (8) → free play → wrap-up (5).
5. Wrap up on one phone: Wrap-up → tick who came and who passed. Scan iPad pass codes; helpers show you their code.

Don't worry about finishing a lesson. Repeating one next week is normal, especially for the youngest kids.

• Lead (teacher or coach): runs the clock and the warm-up, teaches the whole group from Present mode, and keeps the club on their phone (Wrap-up).
• Helpers: each takes a group from the plan. Scan your group's helper codeon the pack cover: your phone shows the script, your kids, the table game and a check-off. Read the “say” lines and use a demo board. Walk the tables during games and watch for the lesson's “common mistakes”.
• At the end:helpers tap “Show my code” in their group view (or scan the kids' iPad pass codes first with 📷 Scan), and the lead scans it in Wrap-up.
• Table captains: older kids who already know the moves can coach a younger pair: check the board setup, remind them of the rules, praise good moves. Kids love the job, and teaching locks in their own learning.

1. Plan (5 minutes): open last week's kids, change who's coming, check the suggested lessons. Override a group's lesson if you want to repeat one.
2. Print the pack. Put game cards on the tables before kids arrive.
3. Teach, play, practice. Kids who pass early: the lesson's game, extra puzzles (for readers), or a real game.
4. Wrap-up on one phone. Print lesson stamps for today's passes, and add stickers to the wall chart (Club printables).
5. When a kid finishes a step, print a certificate from the Roster and celebrate it at the start of next session.

• One board and set per two kids (vinyl roll-up boards are cheap and tough), plus a few spares.
• A demo board (wall or magnetic), or a projector/TV for Present mode.
• Masking tape for a floor grid (warm-ups like Knight Hopscotch), a cloth bag for Mystery Piece, stickers for the wall chart.
• Each week: the session pack. Print worksheets double-sided if you like; each kid gets practice + pass check.
• Once: name tents, the wall sticker chart, a few score sheets for older kids.

1. Before the first session: ask the campus tech person whether school iPads and Wi-Fi can open jcar.github.io. If not, run on paper: everything works without iPads.
2. Use Safari. The site works offline after it has loaded once on that iPad with Wi-Fi.
3. Station cards:open the Camera app on the iPad, point it at the group's card, tap the link. The iPad opens that lesson with easy reading on, and shows only that group's names. Nothing from last week matters, so it's fine if kids get a different iPad.
4. Each kid taps their animal, does the lesson, and gets a pass code on screen. Tap “Next kid” for the next one.
5. To keep kids inside the app: Settings → Accessibility → Guided Access, then triple-click the side button in the lesson. Set a PIN in the planner to lock station iPads.
6. Turn the volume up: easy reading reads every question and answer aloud.

• Easy reading (on by default for the youngest) uses simpler words, reads questions, answers and hints out loud, and marks answers with colours so a kid can hear “Blue: Diagonal” and tap blue.
• Expect each step to take one and a half to two times as many sessions. Repeat lessons freely; the planner's “Teach instead” makes that one click.
• Lessons marked 📖 lean on reading (square names, notation). Do them out loud with a demo board, then tick the pass by hand in Wrap-up.
• Keep talk short: one idea, then hands on the pieces. Use the “with younger kids” tip on each lesson page.
• Warm-ups get the wiggles out: Piece Statues, Knight Hopscotch, Simon Says Squares, Mystery Piece and more.

• Turn on “Early readers learn together” in the planner: the youngest stay one group on one lesson; readers are grouped by step.
• Pair kids of similar strength for games. The ladder (Club games) does this automatically.
• Make strong older kids table captains. Give kids who finish early a job: set up boards, play the lesson's game, or try extra puzzles.
• A quiet signal helps: “Hands on your king!” and everyone freezes.
• Praise effort and good thinking, not just wins. “You looked for checks first. That's what strong players do.”

• Use first names or nicknames only.
• The roster lives in this browser. Nothing goes to a server: there isn't one. Station cards, pass codes and helper codes move data from device to device inside the QR code itself.
• Station cards and the roster QR show kids' first names: collect them after club, or recycle them.
• To move the club to another device, save a club file on the iPads & sharing page.

A kid passed on paper.Tick it in Wrap-up (or on the kid's roster page).

A pass landed on the wrong kid. Untick it in Wrap-up for that date, then tick the right kid.

A kid already plays. On their roster page, set “Already knows up to…”, and they start at that step.

The iPad isn't talking. Check the volume and the mute switch, tap anywhere once, then tap 🔊.

The camera won't scan in Wrap-up.Allow camera access for the site, or point the phone's Camera app at the code instead (in Safari).

We have no iPads.That's fine. The session pack has everything on paper, and the check-off sheet becomes your record.