2Challenge: Mash of the Month for March

Each month we highlight a #MashoftheMonth, focusing on a tool or application within Purple Mash and how it can be used within the classroom to support learning across the curriculum. During the month, if you share how you have used #MashoftheMonth, you will then be entered into a draw to win a 2Simple Goody Bag!

Our #MashOfTheMonth for March is a helpful application within Purple Mash – 2Challenge. Designed for teacher use, 2Challenge is a great quick-start tool for supporting learning engagement, promoting challenge, inspiring children and getting them thinking. The concept is based around having key questions presented with cards with information on. 

2Challenge can be used for early morning work, after lunch, as a starter in lessons, to introduce a new topic, or to reinforce key learning. It can even be used for interventions as the cards can also be printed, or used on tablets. This video highlights the key features of 2Challenge:

When launching 2Challenge, teachers are presented with four main options:

• Make my own
• Maths
• English
• Topic

Using ready-made 2Challenge Cards

There are inbuilt activities within the English, Maths and Topic sections. The advantage these have is that they can be edited, adapted and saved to suit the needs of the teacher or teaching assistant. The ready-made activities for these subjects cover a multitude of topics from numbers to spellings to fractions.

These activities can be saved so that you can create activities for each day in the week. Once saved you can also share with other staff in the school or year group, thus enabling you to save time. See below for current ready-made activities within each subject.

English

• Alphabet
• Vowels
• Consonants
• Conjunctions
• Nouns
• Adjectives
• Adverbs
• Verbs
• Pronouns
• Prepositions
• Articles
• Exception Words for Y1-Y6

Maths

• Random decimal numbers (hundredths)
• Random decimal numbers (tenths)
• Numbers to 10
• Numbers to 20
• Numbers to 50
• Numbers to 100
• Numbers to 1000
• Shapes
• Fractions

Topic

• Art
• Descriptive Imaginative Writing Prompts
• Exploring the World
• Geography
• History
• Innovative Thinking
• Logic
• PHSE
• Science

Make your own 2Challenge Cards

You can also choose the make your own option. You will be presented with a blank space where you can add up to 15 cards and a place to write a question. You can add pictures or words and use this in a multitude of ways - to introduce a topic, for activities to do as the children come in first thing in the morning, or to reinforce key learning. The video below explains how you can make your own:

We can’t wait to see how you use 2Challenge. You can share examples via our Twitter or Facebook pages, and if you share this March with the #MashoftheMonth hashtag you'll be entered into our monthly draw to win a 2Simple goody bag!