Back to school – Making the Most of Purple Mash

Whether it’s inspiring your writers, extending your coders or boosting the creativity in your children, Purple Mash is all about creativity, communication and collaboration. It is your complete online solution for Primary Education, which is why thousands of schools use the package as an integrated resource to deliver teaching and learning in school from nursery to year 6.

This blog outlines how you can make the most of Purple Mash in your school over the next academic year.

Support for Teachers

We have a range of planning, tools and applications to enable your teachers to make the most of using Purple Mash within school. We have mapped Purple Mash to the curriculum showing how it can be used to support and enhance teaching and learning, support for using Mini Mash in Early years and have also mapped Purple Mash to the Oak curriculum as well as providing remote and home learning resources if any pupils need to self-isolate over the term.

There are subject leader toolkits to help subject leaders make the most of Purple Mash within their subject, from action plans to surveys and draft policies it has everything that a subject leader needs to get started at the beginning of the academic year.

To support staff further we have a variety of ways to develop their knowledge and confidence. Our training platform has 16 courses that can be completed online covering assessment, EYFS and online safety to name a few. We also run regular webinars throughout the year, with over 25 this term alone and they are all recorded so you can to watch them at a time that suits you.  Teachers can also book a Mash Chat, great if you have a new teacher joining the school or if a teacher would like support using specific aspects of Purple Mash.

Embed Digital Skills across your Curriculum

Tools

Our open-ended tools allow children’s creativity to flourish. Using Purple Mash they can create expressive multi-media stories, role play as an astronaut, create animated story books, become a DJ and create their own busy beat, design multi-level games, make a Tudor house or create a planet profile. The only limit is their imagination.

Games

It is easy to re-enforce core skills with a range of games that give children an engaging way to practice what they’ve learnt in maths and English. All mapped to the curriculum, captivating games support learning from SPAG to times tables and pupil can also use their won knowledge to create their own games and quizzes across the curriculum.

Sharing

Purple Mash comes with free home access which makes it perfect to seamlessly integrate learning at school and home. The perfect way to share all the learning with the wider school community is making use of our blogs and Display boards – these can be set for whole school, class or individual groups.

Computing Covered

From coding, online safety and email to animation and blogging, Purple Mash includes everything you need to deliver the computing curriculum all in one place and teachers are fully supported with overviews, lesson plans, tutorial videos and slideshows to help them deliver the computing curriculum confidently. It’s not just within the curriculum we have computing covered, we also support computing clubs with our Mash Club and Digital leader resources for teachers setting up both schemes is simple.

Support on Social

Our social media channels and groups are a great way of staying in touch with latest update and news, sharing your work, asking for help and hearing from our community on how they are using 2Simple in their schools.

However you use Purple Mash this year in school, we look forward to working with you and we hope that you have a successful and uninterrupted year.