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Arrange for your class to take part in our 2Animate competition and be in with a chance of winning some fabulous prizes! Teach animation alongside a part of the history, geography or science curriculum and enter your animation.

Computer Science education week (CSEd Week) 2022 runs from December 5th to 11th.

This year, we're giving you free access to 5 Purple Mash self-guided coding activities as well as a full 45-minute Python in Pieces coding lesson.

We also highlight our top 3 Purple Mash coding tools for all ages.

Earlier this year, 2Simple commissioned an independent research review to identify the extent to which Purple Mash supports the aims and requirements of England's National Curriculum for Computing, and how it delivers on our aim to provide excellent, accessible and inspiring software which encourages children to love learning, raises standards and reduces teacher workload. The results have now been published and these are the main findings...

As more teachers are looking to integrate digital technologies across the curriculum within their classes, we are delighted to share with you some exciting updates and new features that have been added to our DigiTech Scheme of work. To further support the delivery in school, enhance the impact of lessons and reduce teacher workload, we have updated the lesson plans, included editable downloadable slideshows for every unit, included supporting videos for teachers, updated our knowledge organisers, prior learning and future learning overviews, concept maps to gather information before teaching the units and\or after completing it and quizzes to review students' understanding from the unit, all to ensure that you can teach digital technologies, support ICT competencies and further students' learning across the whole curriculum with confidence.

Coding can be challenging for some teachers and we want to support you in becoming confident in teaching it. We have detailed here ways that might help you move towards becoming an expert and supporting your students.