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Purple Mash has teamed up with The Fruities and Veggies™ to bring you a very exciting competition this January! Your students will be tasked with designing a house for one of The Fruities and Veggies™ - with lots of pear-fect prizes to be won, you don't want to miss it. Read the blog to find out more.

In 2025, Safer Internet Day takes place on Tuesday 11th February. Over the years, the day has become a landmark event in the online safety calendar, with schools across the world contributing to creating a safer online environment for all. This year's theme is 'Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online' and here we look at some resources you can use and how you can get involved.

National Society of Storytelling is a UK-based society founded in 1993. Open to anyone with an interest in the form, they coordinate National Storytelling Week, which this year runs from 1st-9th February. Their mission is to promote the oral tradition of storytelling which was the very first way of communicating life experiences and the creative imagination.

Each month we will be highlighting a #MashoftheMonth, this will focus 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!

This month's Mash of the Month is 2Graph, Purple Mash's graph and chart tool. 2Graph gives children the opportunity to easily create a range of graphs. Different graph types can be entered in a table and up to four types can be shown simultaneously on the screen. It's packed full of new functionality that lets children visualise and present data in a variety of colourful and exciting ways.

Made some New Years Resolutions for the classroom? We're here to help you achieve them! Read on to see what we can help you with...