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Purple Mash's safe blogging environment 2Blog is proving more popular than ever, and with more users comes more feature suggestions. As ever we've been listening and have made some some improvements to the tool, to give you and your pupils a better experience.

Anne Frank was given a diary for her 13th Birthday on 12th June 1942 in which she wrote daily and had planned to publish a book about her time in the Secret Annex. Her diary was published after her death and has been translated into more than 70 languages.

We are so excited to announce the official launch of the newly designed Purple Mash! We have several new features that you can explore and start to use. The trial period will last for approximately 8 weeks, after which we will gradually switch all users to the new look Purple Mash!

We are celebrating the work of the NHS and the dedication and hard work of all as we celebrate International Nurses Day. One of the first pioneers of Nursing was Florence Nightingale who was born on the 12th May 1820, on the 200th anniversary of her birth, the work Florence Nightingale did resonates with us now more than ever. Florence’s ideas and actions changed nursing forever.

VE day or Victory in Europe day marks the day when the guns fell silent at the end of the war in Europe. The announcement that the war in Europe had ended came at 3pm on 8th May 1945, by Prime Minister Winston Churchill. There are several activities within Purple Mash that can be used by children to commemorate VE Day.