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Making the most of Purple Mash
Sept. 4, 2025
Welcome back to a new academic year! Whether it’s inspiring your writers, extending your coders, or boosting the creativity in your children, Purple Mash has everything you need to deliver a unique experience that is simple to use and loved by all.
Our open-ended tools allow children’s creativity to flourish. Using Purple Mash, the opportunities are endless. Children can role-play being an astronaut, become a DJ, create animated stories, design multi-level games, and much more. It is easy to reinforce core skills with a range of games that give children an engaging way to practise what they are learning.
Build Computing Confidence and Online Safety Skills
Purple Mash comes with a complete Computing Scheme of Work, including units on coding, spreadsheets, databases, and even AI. Every lesson is fully resourced with slides, activities and assessment tools. Teachers are fully supported with tutorial videos, user guides and solutions, meaning that adults of all skill levels can feel confident in teaching engaging and effective computing lessons.
There's also a full scheme for Online Safety: 2BeSafe. The 20 minute sessions are designed to be woven throughout the curriculum, ensuring that children have a concrete understanding of how to stay safe online.
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Get Creative with Classroom Tools
With the wide range of tools available, using Purple Mash across the curriculum is easy. Pupils can explore storytelling, game design, word processing, music making and much more.
Why not create a podcast about your current topic, create an animated story for English, or explore the graphing tools in maths? With Purple Mash, the possibilities are endless!
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Save Time with Ready-Made Resources
The Topics folder inside Purple Mash makes it easy to find resources linked to your curriculum topic, all of which can be assigned online as a 2Do. Mark work online, and track pupil progress in the Data Dashboard.
As well as the Computing and Online Safety schemes of work, there's also one for Grammar and one for Spelling too, saving countless hours of searching online or creating your own resources.
Why not search for resources created by other teachers in the Resource Sharing area? Here you can search, bookmark and edit resources, as well as creating and publishing your own for other teachers to use.
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Extend Learning Beyond the Classroom
Every Purple Mash subscription includes free home access for all users, so children can continue learning at home. Maths games and writing projects are great to set as homework, and tools like 2Blog and the Display Boards help students share their work with their friends and family in a safe and secure environment.
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Promote Reading with Serial Mash
Serial Mash is our online library of guided reading books and resources for ages 5-11, and it can be added on to Purple Mash easily!
With 7 different libraries, there is something for everyone:
- Diamonds (Ages 5-7)
- Emeralds (Ages 7-9)
- Sapphires (Ages 9-11)
- Fire bolts (Books to motivate and promote eager reading)
- Comets (Longer novels for ages 9-11)
- Poetry
- DK Learning (non-fiction books)
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Reading Lessons with Serial Mash
Strengthen Your Subject Leadership
Whether you're a computing lead, leading another core or foundation subject, Purple Mash includes toolkits packed with policies, action plans and audit tools to support leadership and inspection readiness.
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Tap into Profressional Development
Purple Mash users can book CPD tailored to their school, at a time that suits them. CPD can be delivered as whole-day, half-day or twilight sessions, and can even be delivered online.
You'll also have access to regular webinars covering different themes throughout the year, as well as Live Lessons which you can follow along with your class.
Just need a quick chat? Book a Mash Chat which is a 30-minute, 1-1 call at a time that is convenient to you, where you can chat to a member of our team about anything Purple Mash related.
Stay Ahead with Regular Updates
From new curriculum units, refreshes on the schemes of work, to updated tools and new resources, Purple Mash is always growing and evolving. Check the blog regularly to stay on top of the latest features and teaching ideas.
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If you'd like to explore all of the tools and resources mentioned in the blog then you can get a free trial of Purple Mash by clicking the button below 👇