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Setting up Purple Mash for the new academic year
July 17, 2025
As the new academic year approaches, we wanted to share with you some useful links we know will help you and your colleagues get started in 2025/26. In the post we'll cover account set up for Purple Mash admins, including data syncing and adding new classes; plus, we'll share useful tools and teacher resources to help you feel prepared at the start of the new year.
Contents
1) Setting up or updating your Purple Mash account
2) Login cards and parent letters
1) Setting up or updating your Purple Mash account
Purple Mash admins, make sure your school account is linked to your pupil data (MIS). Manually updating pupils, classes and teachers each year is a thing of the past. MIS integration is GDPR compliant and free for existing users. Watch the video on how to use it.
If you don’t wish to, or are unable to use the quick sync account update via your school data base (MIS), then you can also set up your school manually. Find all the relevant walk-through videos in our Admin, Support and How-to playlist on YouTube.
2) Login cards and parent letters
You can print login cards, with personalised login details for each pupil to make logging in from home or in class quick and easy.
If you use the Parent Portal, you can also print parent letters with their dedicated parent code to allow parents/carers to gain insight into their child's learning on Purple Mash.
To print login cards and parent letters, navigate to the admin settings on your profile.
A copy of the parents’ letter is also available within the new look Teachers area, under the Supporting Parents tab.
View the step-by-step guide for login cards and parent letters
3) Professional development
The Teacher's area contains a range of useful resources and links to help you get the most out of Purple Mash. Under the Professional Development tab, you’ll find great help to prepare for the coming year, including:
- Training Platform: an extensive library of video courses and follow-up quizzes covering key areas of Purple Mash.
- Mash Chats: 1 to 1 screen-shares with a member of our experienced CPD team covering any area of teaching or learning with Purple Mash.
- 2Simple TV: this is our YouTube channel, where you can find a variety of useful playlists, including previous webinars.
- Webinars: head here to discover all our upcoming webinars and also access our previous webinars playlist.
- CPD booking: your Purple Mash subscription includes one session for every year of your licence. This is the place to book it.
4) Subject Leader's Toolkits
Whether you're starting a new role or are a more experienced subject lead looking for additional support, our subject toolkits are perfect for subject leaders looking to keep on top of things in 2025/26.
They contain a range of practical and useful documents which make auditing, action planning, reviewing provision and developing you as a leader a lot less onerous. You can access all the Subject Leader Toolkits except PE from the Leadership tab of the Teachers area. The PE Leader’s Toolkit is supported by Striver, our PE and wellbeing offering, and is available to download for free.
5) Computing Scheme of Work
The Teacher's area is packed full of helpful tools and guides. Under the planning tab you’ll find the refreshed and refined Purple Mash Computing Scheme for EYFS to Year 6; a powerful, comprehensive resource aligned to the National Curriculum and EYFS Framework.
Explore the refreshed and refined Computing Scheme in the video:
6) Other planning resources
The planning tab of the Teacher's area also includes a Spelling Scheme, Grammar for Writing Scheme and Curriculum Maps, which links every curriculum objective to Purple Mash resources and planning documents.
7) Keeping up to date
There are several ways to keep up to date with the latest developments, updates and releases.
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8) Contact our friendly support team
Our support team are always on hand to help. Should you like to speak to a member of the team about updating your data you can contact them via email at support@2simple.com or call them on +44 (0)20 8203 1781.