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Coding classes in San Borja, Lima
Most San Borja parents who ask us about coding have a child in primaria and two questions: is my child old enough, and will they cope with a class in English? This page answers both, grade by grade from 1° to 6° de primaria, using MINEDU's own ages for each grade. It also shows what an hour of live coding looks like for a six-year-old, what the national curriculum does and does not cover, and a Python lesson for the oldest children in primaria.
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The short answer
Modern Age Coders runs live online coding classes in English for children in San Borja, Lima, from age 6. In the early primaria grades children solve reasoning puzzles and build Scratch games; from about 9, in 4° de primaria, most move to typed Python; teenagers and adults have their own courses. Every class is live on video with a mentor based in India who speaks slow, simple English, in a group of fifteen to twenty children of the same age or one to one, at any hour that suits the family in Peru time.
Where San Borja children start
Three courses for the primaria years
One for the youngest thinkers, one long course built on Scratch, and one for children who are ready to type.
What can a child learn to code in each grade of primaria?
Quite a lot, if the tools fit the age. MINEDU links each grade to a "normative age", measured on 31 March of the school year, and primaria lasts six years under the Ley General de Educación, Ley 28044. The right-hand columns are our own.
Peruvian primaria grades and MINEDU's normative ages, with where our classes start (our columns)
Grade (MINEDU)
Normative age on 31 March
Where we start (ours)
A typical first project (ours)
Inicial 5 años
5
Not yet; we begin at 6
Ordering picture cards at home
1° de primaria
6
Reasoning puzzles, then Scratch
A cat that walks and says hello
2° de primaria
7
Scratch
A story with three scenes
3° de primaria
8
Scratch, or Roblox from 8
A catch game with a score
4° de primaria
9
Scratch or first Python
A quiz that counts right answers
5° de primaria
10
Python
Turtle drawings with loops
6° de primaria
11
Python, with small AI projects
A story card that wraps its own text
1° de secundaria
12
Python for teens, Java later
Programs that read and summarise files
Sources: MINEDU, Edades normativas (page and PDF table: the normative age is the age on 31 March of each year, 3 to 16 from Inicial to 5° de secundaria); Ley N.° 28044, Ley General de Educación (primaria lasts six years, secundaria five). Read 8 to 10 November 2026. The two right-hand columns describe our own courses and are not part of any MINEDU document.
Reading the table
Age matters more than grade for us. A child born in April may be the youngest in their grade and a child born in March the oldest, so two classmates can be almost a year apart. We place children by age and by what they can already do, after a free first class.
The jump from blocks to typing usually comes in 4° or 5° de primaria. It depends on reading and typing more than on cleverness: a child who reads fluently and finds the keys without hunting is ready.
What the school week holds
The CNEB plan of studies for primaria has 30 teaching periods a week of 45 minutes. Matemática gets 5 in grades 1 and 2 and 4 from grade 3; Inglés gets 2 in the first two grades and 3 from 3° onwards, which is 90 and then 135 minutes a week by our arithmetic.
None of those periods is for computing. The CNEB treats digital skills as a competency shared by every area, number 28, rather than a subject, so a child in a typical primaria never writes a program in class. Bilingual schools in and around San Borja set their own timetables; what each teaches is for the school to say.
Starting at 6
Can a six-year-old really follow a live coding class in English?
Usually, yes, if the class is built for six-year-olds. That means short tasks, a lot of pointing at the screen, very few words, and a mentor who waits.
Hello and a warm-up, five minutes. The mentor greets each child by name and asks one simple question: "What colour is your cat today?" Children answer however they can; one English word is a good start.
Show, then say, ten minutes. The mentor drags a block on the shared screen and says only "move", "turn", "say". Children copy it on their own screen. The words come with the action, never alone.
Make it yours, fifteen minutes. Each child changes something: a colour, a sound, how far the cat moves. The mentor visits screens one by one and asks "What happens if...?"
Show the group, five minutes. A child or two shows their project. Others clap. Speaking in front of others in English starts with a single sentence.
If English is new at home
Many San Borja children hear English at school, some barely at all. For a six-year-old with very little English we usually suggest starting one to one: the mentor can slow down as much as needed, use gesture and repetition freely, and nobody else is waiting.
A parent sitting nearby for the first few classes helps too, not to translate, but to make the screen feel safe. After a month, most children prefer to be left alone with their mentor.
If English is already strong
Children at bilingual schools usually treat the class like any other lesson in English. For them the challenge is the thinking, not the language, and the mentor moves faster through the projects.
Either way, the classes are taught only in English. The mentor understands a Spanish answer and offers the English for it, but does not switch languages. That consistency is what makes the English stick.
INEI counted 6,446 children aged 6 to 11 in San Borja in its 2025 census, out of a total district population of 126,125.
The census
Among the 121,870 people INEI counted in San Borja (it estimates another 4,255 were missed), 4,321 were under 6, 6,446 were 6 to 11 and 7,651 were 12 to 17. People of 60 and over form the largest group, 33,490, or about 27.5% by our division.
Primary-age children are about 5.3% of the people counted. INEI's total splits into 67,994 women and 58,131 men.
What it means for a class
Six and a half thousand children spread across six school grades and many schools is not many per age. A specialist coding class in English for seven-year-olds would struggle to fill locally; online, a San Borja seven-year-old joins a full group of seven-year-olds.
Grandparents count too. With so many older residents, we often find a grandparent beside the child at the computer, and sometimes signing up for an adult course of their own.
Source: INEI, Censos Nacionales 2025, Lima Metropolitana indicators, Cuadro N.° 1 and Cuadro N.° 3, saved 8 November 2026. Percentages are our own; we do not add age groups into new totals.
San Borja is bordered by San Isidro, La Victoria, San Luis, Ate, Santiago de Surco and Surquillo. Children in any of those districts join the same groups. Parents who prefer Spanish can read our summer plan for vacaciones útiles de programación en San Borja, which pairs morning sport with coding at home. A Spanish guide for every age, all year, is clases de programación en San Borja.
Why online
Why choose an online class for a young child in San Borja?
Because for a child of six to nine, the journey is often the hardest part of an after-school activity, and a live class at home removes it completely.
No journey, no rush
We do not quote traffic times; San Borja parents know the afternoon roads better than any table could. What matters is that a forty-five minute class at home costs forty-five minutes, not an afternoon.
Younger children are also tired after school. A class that starts five minutes after a snack, at a familiar table, gets a fresher child than one that starts after a car ride.
Still a real class
Online does not mean a video. The mentor sees each child's screen, speaks to each child by name, and notices when someone is lost. Children in the group see and hear each other too.
What you need: a laptop or desktop with a mouse, a camera and a microphone, and a steady connection. A tablet or phone is not enough for building programs. INEI found that 68.2% of Peruvian children of 6 to 11 used the internet in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest share of any school-age group, so for many children this will be their first serious use of a computer.
A real lesson
What does a lesson look like for the oldest primaria children? Wrapping a story onto a card
This lesson is for children of about 10 to 12 who already type Python. They write a short story and want it to fit on a narrow card, ten letters wide. Splitting text into lines sounds easy, and teaches a surprising amount about counting carefully.
The task
The story is one sentence about a llama and some cactuses. The child writes a function, wrap(text, width), that takes words one at a time and adds each to the current line if it fits, or starts a new line if it does not. This "fill the line, then move on" method is called greedy wrapping.
Before running it, the child predicts the lines on paper. That prediction is the most important part of the lesson.
Three surprises
Version 1 prints bars around each line so we can see its edges. The first line starts with a space. The second line, "jumped over", is 11 letters long on a card only 10 wide. And "extraordinarily" sticks out at 15.
The space at the start comes from adding " " before every word, even the first. The line of 11 comes from forgetting to count the space between words. The long word is a different problem: no rule can fit 15 letters on a line of 10.
Version 1: almost a word wrapperPython
story = "The llama jumped over seventeen extraordinarily tall cactuses"
def wrap(text, width):
lines = []
line = ""
for word in text.split():
if len(line) + len(word) <= width:
line = line + " " + word
else:
lines.append(line)
line = word
lines.append(line)
return lines
for line in wrap(story, 10):
print("|" + line + "|", len(line))
It prints | The llama| 10, |jumped over| 11, |seventeen| 9, |extraordinarily| 15, |tall| 4 and |cactuses| 8.
Version 2: count the space, then compare with textwrapPython
import textwrap
story = "The llama jumped over seventeen extraordinarily tall cactuses"
def wrap(text, width):
lines = []
line = ""
for word in text.split():
if line == "":
line = word
elif len(line) + 1 + len(word) <= width:
line = line + " " + word
else:
lines.append(line)
line = word
if line:
lines.append(line)
return lines
for line in wrap(story, 10):
print("|" + line.ljust(10) + "|", len(line))
print(textwrap.wrap(story, 10))
It prints |The llama | 9, |jumped | 6, |over | 4, |seventeen | 9, |extraordinarily| 15, |tall | 4, |cactuses | 8, and then ['The llama', 'jumped', 'over', 'seventeen', 'extraordin', 'arily tall', 'cactuses'].
Version 2 starts each line with the first word on its own and adds 1 for the space before every later word. Now no ordinary line goes past 10, and "jumped" and "over" sit on separate lines because together they need 11. The long word still sticks out, and Version 2 keeps it whole on purpose.
The last line uses Python's own textwrap module for comparison. It makes a different choice: it cuts the long word into "extraordin" and "arily", and then fits "arily tall" on one line. Neither answer is wrong. The child has to decide what a story card should do, and that decision, explained in a sentence, is what we are really teaching.
Ages 6 to 7, with paper strips. Write a sentence on squared paper, one letter per square, and cut it into strips five squares wide without cutting any word. What do you do with a word of seven letters?
Ages 8 to 9, in Scratch. Make a sprite say a long sentence in a speech bubble. Then split the sentence into two "say" blocks so it reads better. Where did you choose to split, and why?
Ages 10 to 12, in Python. Predict the output of Version 1 on paper before running it. Then change the width to 12 and predict again.
Going further. Add a hyphen when a long word is cut, as books do. Check that no line, hyphen included, is longer than the width.
San Borja times
What time would a class be in San Borja?
Any time that suits your child. Peru has no daylight saving, so Peru time sits five hours behind UTC all year, and India sits five and a half ahead; ten and a half hours separate San Borja from the mentor's desk on every date. The rows below are conversions, not set slots.
San Borja times and the same moment in India (conversions only)
Peru time, San Borja
India time
Suits
08:30
19:00
A child on a summer morning
10:30
21:00
A Saturday class
15:00
01:30, next day
A child home after school
17:00
03:30, next day
After a snack and some play
Source: IANA tz database, America/Lima and Asia/Kolkata; neither zone observes summer time. The conversions are our own.
You book in your own time and the mentor sees the India equivalent. Peru's school year started on 16 March 2026, when MINEDU reported 53,631 schools reopening for 6,225,000 pupils; many families start our classes in the January to March summer and keep the same hour once school returns.
Milestones
How a San Borja child progresses through primaria
Our own milestones for children of 6 to 12. They tell us which group a child belongs in, and tell parents what has changed.
Primaria coding milestones (ours)
Milestone
Typical age
Your child can
You might hear at home
1. Steps
6
Put three blocks in the right order
"First it walks, then it talks!"
2. Again
7
Use a repeat block instead of copying
"I don't need ten blocks, just one."
3. When
8
Make something happen on a key or a click
"When I press space, it jumps."
4. Keep
9
Store a score that goes up and resets
"The score was wrong, so I fixed it."
5. Type
10
Write short Python with loops and if
"Look, I typed it myself."
6. Check
11 to 12
Predict output and test an awkward case
"I knew that word would be too long."
For parents
Milestone 6 is the word-wrap lesson above. Listen for the word "because" when your child talks about a program: that is reasoning, not copying.
Our notes home describe what was made and understood, in plain words.
For children
Guess first, then run it. Being wrong is how you find out something new.
Spaces are letters too. Count them.
More courses
Nine more courses for San Borja
Every course here runs live in English; children keep one mentor and can learn in a group or alone.
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Younger primaria
Ages 6 to 9
COBO / YOUNG / 01
Scratch coding
From a first sprite to complete games in about three months.
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Fees
Fees for families in San Borja
Our plans are monthly and priced in US dollars, paid by card. If you pay with a card in soles, your bank changes the dollars into soles at its own daily rate, so the statement can show a slightly different amount each month.
Parents' and students' Google reviews, quoted as written.
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San Borja parents ask
Coding classes in San Borja: questions and answers
Are the classes in Spanish?
No. Every class is live, online and taught only in English. With young children the mentor uses very simple words, gestures and the screen itself, so a child can follow before they understand every word. A child may answer in Spanish; the mentor understands and replies in English.
Is six too young to start?
No, for the right kind of class. At 6, children solve reasoning puzzles and drag Scratch blocks; they do not type code. Sessions are short and active. Most six-year-olds in 1° de primaria manage well, especially one to one at first.
When should my child move from blocks to Python?
Usually around 9, in 4° de primaria, once they read fluently and type without hunting for keys. The mentor suggests the move when a child is ready, not on a fixed date.
When are classes in San Borja time?
Any day, any time, flexible: choose a batch, or for a very personalised plan choose 1-on-1 at the hour that suits your family. India is ten and a half hours ahead of Peru all year, so 10:30 in San Borja is 21:00 in India.
Does my child need a computer?
Yes: a laptop or desktop with a mouse, a camera and a microphone. Tablets and phones are fine for watching but not for building programs. A shared family computer works if the hour is planned around it.
Does primary school in Peru teach coding?
Not as a subject. The CNEB plan of studies for primaria has no computing period; digital skills are a competency shared across subjects. Some private and bilingual schools add their own computing classes.
Will my child use AI chatbots?
No adult chatbot accounts. Claude is for users aged 18 and over, and ChatGPT requires a parent's permission under 18. Children learn how AI works through our own child-safe projects and learn to reason before using any tool.
Do you have a centre in San Borja?
No. We have no premises in San Borja or anywhere in Peru, and we are not connected with the municipality, MINEDU or any school. All classes are live online with mentors in India. Children who complete a course receive our certificate of completion.
How are fees paid?
Monthly, by card, in US dollars. A card in soles is converted by your bank, so the figure can vary slightly from month to month. The first class is free and needs no card.
In the free class your child makes something small and fun with a mentor, perhaps a sprite that dances or a first line of Python. The mentor sees how your child thinks and how much English they follow, and then suggests a course, a group or one-to-one start, and a time that suits your family.
Want to read first? How we teach describes a class, and the course list shows every syllabus.
All classes are live on video and in English, with mentors based in India. You can message us on WhatsApp in English.
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