Your child has access to Purple Mash, a whole world of fun and exciting learning opportunities in one safe place.

What is Purple Mash? Purple Mash is a comprehensive suite of online learning tools and content, designed to be used by Primary aged children in the classroom and at home.

Find out more here.

What should you do first? To begin with, it’s a good idea to log in to Purple Mash with your child. To keep things simple we are just sending our the child’s log in details. We suggest the following:

Familiarisie yourself with the menu icons.

Looking at any set tasks that have been given to your child (2Dos) (We have set 6 pieces of work for you to explore over Easter)

Finding out about Class Blogs and Display Boards accessible via the Sharing Icon (We will introduce these over time)

Watch the videos here with your child to show them what 2Dos are like in Purple Mash.

If you need help setting up your device to use purple mash you can click here.

Other things you can do. We urge you to explore with your child all the other activities your child can do:

Exploring the grammar, maths and spelling activities which match to the National Curriculum

Play one of many fun, educational collaborative games such as 2Race

Delve into the Science area and find out about all the areas of Science it covers

Investigate the Topics area to support securing their knowledge of the wider curriculum

Tour the Computing area trying out some of the tools such as 2Code, 2Go and Logo

Get creative in the Tools section, from making an animation to building a printable 3D model

Dive into Serial Mash (an online library of books)

Learn through play in Mini Mash (For children aged 3 to 5).

Send messages to your friends and teachers using the 2 email function under tools (Teachers will need to approve what you send)