What is Purple Mash?
Purple Mash is an award-winning cross curricular website for primary school children, enabling them to explore and enhance their knowledge in a fun and creative way.
Cloud-based, it delivers an exciting mash-up of curriculum focused activities, creative tools, programs and games. There is a Purple Mash add-on called Serial Mash, an online library which contains digital fiction books with guided reading resources and activities.
For parents, Purple Mash contains free home access for all pupils. For teachers, Purple Mash provides ready-made editable long-term, medium-term and individual lesson plans, a full assessment framework, curriculum maps, whole school schemes, video tutorials, built-in CPD and free CPD events.
Purple Mash works across a range of different devices, from tablets to interactive whiteboards.
Recommended Usage
As a whole-curriculum resource this would be dependent upon the specific tool and objective. For example, if using the multiplication tool, using it once a day for 5 minutes, learners and teachers would start to see impact within a couple of weeks. But if using one of the creative animation tools the level of usage would be different.
Educational Impact
Additional evidence
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Purple Mash - The Evidence & The Impact Executive Summary
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 Company | Business Name: 2simple Ltd HQ Location: United Kingdom Founded: 2011 |
| Age Range | 0-4, 5-7, 8-10 |
 Features | Computing Scheme Of WorkGive Student FeedbackCurriculum MapsLesson PlansMathsEnglishCross CurricularHome AccessAssign TasksComputing |
 Languages | English |
 Accessibility | Moderate features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy PolicyGDPR |
 Requirements | Internet - High BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookMobile - iPhoneMobile - iPadMobile - WindowsMobile - Android Internet enabled device(s), from desktops to tablets and interactive whiteboards. |
 Set Up | Access to Purple Mash is set-up within a couple of working days. No installation is required, MIS integration available following purchase of a subscription. |
 Training | In PersonLive OnlineWebinarsDocumentationVideos Plus, an in-built training platform. |
 Support | EmailFAQs/ForumKnowledge BasePhone Support Lots of articles are available on the Purple Mash website to support all users - students, teachers and parents. |
| Home Learning | Parent Access School must create the account. Free home access for all pupils. Parents have access to a Parent Portal which gives clear insight into their child's learning activities. Resources are available on the Purple Mash website that have been built specifically to help parents make the most of the platform. |
 Tags | Purple MashCross curricular computinghome accesscreativity |
Purple Mash PricingPricing Plans Free TrialPaid Subscription Purple Mash pricing starts from £450 / year Purple Mash packages start from £450 (excluding VAT) and are based on the number of pupils at the purchasing school. Multi-year discounts apply to 3-year licences and 5-year licences. There is an additional £150 one-off joining fee to cover MIS data integration, set-up, configuration, hand holding to ‘go-live’ and ongoing technical support. This includes 1 twilight CPD session (1.5 hours) with additional sessions included for multi-year subscriptions. For a personalised quote, please book a free demo.  Optimised for a quick response | |
 Special Offer | Multi-year discounts |
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Purple Mash Reviews
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Sonia
Higher Level Teaching Assistant
Used Purple Mash daily for 5 years+
Nov 2024
It is relatively easy to use, the children enjoy the tasks and can access from home it covers majority of the computing curriculum.
Sonia found Purple Mash:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Planning assessment and marking made easier.”
- Slightly increases student collaboration“Unfortunately collaboration tasks are often let down by internet quality.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge
- Significantly builds student knowledge“The computing curriculum is fairly comprehensive.”
Nov 2024
enjoy using
trish found Purple Mash:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“help with worksheet ideas”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“setting of work for them”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“being able to set and mark work”
- Slightly improves teacher knowledge“not sure”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“alongside the topic for the lesson”
Nov 2024
Very child friendly, diverse in subjects. However, it is a standalone platform..it isn't what is used in the real world which makes some units hard to transfer skills
Alex Butterworth found Purple Mash:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Pre made lesson slides and resources linked”
- Slightly increases student collaboration“Google classroom allows it to be more accessible to them”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Assists teachers whose subject knowledge is little. Key vocabulary etc”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“Including ai/coding units/more current use of computing”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Children can get into coding easily. Understanding processes such as logging on, printing etc is easier”
Moira
Hlta/computing teacher
Used Purple Mash weekly for 5 years+
Nov 2024
I feel Purple Mash is currently the best teaching aid to teaching computing for all primary ages.
Moira found Purple Mash:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Accessible at short notice and has great lesson plans.”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“All my students love working with purple mash. I start the youngest pupils on it ASAP.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Yr2 currently learning about Artist styles in 2paint.”
Clare
Year 6, Computing and Music Lead
Used Purple Mash daily for 5 years+
Nov 2024
Purple Mash provides so much more than a fully resourced, progressive computing curriculum. The spelling scheme of work is also comprehensively resourced. The many cross-curricular activities are engaging and provide scaffolded/differentiated learning opportunities breaking the barrier for those children who find it tricky to put pen to paper but are happy to either dictate or use a keyboard.
Clare found Purple Mash:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“As Computing Lead, Purple Mash provides a very comprehensive computing scheme of work which is fully resourced with powerpoints, detailed lesson plans and teacher help videos. It is also easier to deliver computing lessons from the one platform making it more efficient for both teachers and learners. Teachers can set pre and post vocabulary or end of unit quizzes which are self marking, also saving time.”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Children can work together on projects in real time such as creating 'mind maps', stories or presentations. They can share their work, whether digital presentations or coding games, to display boards enabling others to give feedback, which enhances collaborative learning.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Having all the strands of the compuing curriculum in one place means that teachers are not having to learn different platforms in order to teach a range of units and it is also more efficient for pupils to find everything they need on the one platform, streamlining the logging in process.”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“With every computing lesson having detailed lesson plans and many with accompanying videos, teachers are quickly able to increase their knowledge to teach the computing curriculum.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“The computing curriculum builds progressively which ensures that children are exposed to all the essential skills and knowledge with each unit having quizzes which can be repeated during the year to develop recall of vocabulary and knowledge. Other engaging interactive activities and games reinforce learning such as spelling quizzes or maths games.”
Nov 2024
I think it's an amazing, ever changing resource.
Julie found Purple Mash:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“lessons for ICT are well resourced with plans”
- Moderately increases student collaboration“working together on shared documents”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“It means that if I need cover, I can resource a lesson and I know that the children won't miss out.”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“A wide range of resources. The computer curriculum is well planned and makes it easy for teachers to understand how to accomplish the goals.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“The students are knowledgeable and have progressed well through the computing curriculum”
Nov 2024
The quality of our computing offering has increased dramatically in both students and staff. The lesson plans and powerpoints are clear and save lots of time and stress. The crash courses in things like coding have been great to get the students and staff up to speed.
Matthew Fletcher found Purple Mash:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“It is useful for creating tests and quizzes but as we weren't using this before it has increased workload but in a positive way.”
- Does not increase student collaboration“We don't often use this functionality.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“We use Purple Mash for computing lessons across the school and for daily spelling and maths quizzes. The teaching quality of computing lessons has increased significantly since we have been using the purple mash resources correctly.”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“Teaching quality and confidence has increased dramatically since the introduction of Purple Mash.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Student knowledge and confidence is increasing year on year with Purple mash.”
Matthew Rice
Head of computing MLT middle leadership team
Used Purple Mash weekly for 5 years+
Nov 2024
It's a fab around platform that is constantly developed helping with the teaching of a range of curriculum subjects. Brilliant.
Matthew Rice found Purple Mash:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Resources, games, drawing apps, all ready made, loads of ideas and things for lessons.”
- Significantly increases student collaboration
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Nov 2024
it is a great resource, but sometimes there's too much and it hard for staff who don't use it often to use it effectively with out being over faced.
Vinay Makwana found Purple Mash:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“wide range of activities that are ready to go across the curriculum”
- Slightly increases student collaboration
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“For some staff it is great but i dont feel the range of resources are efficiently used to fully impact efficiency as much as it can.”
- Slightly improves teacher knowledge“The DK books can be informative where knowledge is missing.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge
Lucy Durrant
Director of Digital and Innovation
Used Purple Mash weekly for 5 years+
Nov 2024
It is a great tool the is constantly updated to match and deliver resources to provide a varied and challenging curriculum that keeps up to date. The pupils find it interactive and fun and it is easy to track pupil progress and work.
Lucy Durrant found Purple Mash:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Finding resources that suit a topic or using the Computing Scheme of work that matches curriculum coverage and provides all the resources staff and pupils need.”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Sharing databases to create group data sets”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“The computing scheme of work provided teaching slides that direct teachers through the lesson pathway and guide student activity”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“The planning and videos ensure teachers can revise their knowledge when they are not confident or have not taught a particular skill for a while. Very comprehensive and easy to pick up and teach with”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“The video tutorials support independent work which help consolidate pupil knowledge and understanding as well as scaffolding those who need extra support”
Nov 2024
Purple Mash is pretty good but my main issue is that it often seems too advanced for Infant students and is aimed at Junior children. The games are often too difficult or too fast for Infants. It would really help if we could have control over the applications such as being able to remove the time restriction on Fractonio's Pizzeria so that children have more time to work out what they need to do - or have a teacher explain it to them. Sequence Snake would be better if we had options to slow it down and choose the things that need to be picked up. We could then do 1,2,3,4,5,6 or 10, 20, 30.. or A..B..C..D... Another example is the Animal Needs exercise. Lots of our children find the whole thing too complicated. We really just need a blank page where we can add a picture and put in some text - especially at the start of the year in Year 1. There are probably loads of other improvements I could suggest but basically they all come down to things being too complicated for our children. We also have a number of SEN children and they could do with some really simple activities. Purple Mash is good but could be so much better for Infant children.
David Horne found Purple Mash:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Students often help each other when using Purple Mash”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency
- Slightly improves teacher knowledge
- Significantly builds student knowledge“They improve their mouse and typing skills. They learn how to save and open files etc.”
Nov 2024
We love it at harvington!
Milly Brown found Purple Mash:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“pre made work sheets, paint projects times table games”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Paired work for coding.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“Coding answers! help videos and powerpoints”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“flashbacks”
Shelly Meer
Teacher and Computing Lead
Used Purple Mash weekly for 5 years+
Nov 2024
Logging in can sometimes be a problem for younger children hence 1 less star
Shelly Meer found Purple Mash:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Ready made activities”
- Moderately increases student collaboration
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Easy to follow”
- Moderately improves teacher knowledge“Help guides are useful”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Good examples and help guides”
Nov 2024
It's straightforward and tools have continue to improve over the years.
Gurmit Uppal found Purple Mash:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“The activities and support videos save time”
- Slightly increases student collaboration“Have used the collaborative mind map tool”
- Does not significantly improve teaching efficiency“pre-setting work”
- Does not improve teacher knowledge
- Moderately builds student knowledge“computing activities enable good progression”
Nov 2024
Purple Mash makes sure that the correct curriculum is taught and progression is evident. Staff don't need to spend hours searching or making lessons. It has turned unconfident teachers into those now able to teach the computing curriculum
Sally Shipton found Purple Mash:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Ready prepared powerpoints, progression”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“linked activities”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“prepared lessons and help videos make teaching easier and purposeful”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“Even a novice can watch the help videos and learn to teach computing”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“progression and recap quizzes help build year on year”
Nov 2024
Children love using the programme and adults find the programme easy to use.
Amanda Neighbour found Purple Mash:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Having high quality resources available means that the teachers do not need to make/create their own, reducing the teacher's lesson preparation time.”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“This year, as part of our English work, the children worked together to use the 2game section to create their own computer game. The children then used the templates on the system for writing to create rules around their game.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency
- Slightly improves teacher knowledge
- Significantly builds student knowledge“The children enjoy and play many of the maths games, increasing the children's knowledge.”
Nov 2024
Jade Marshall found Purple Mash:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Computing planning”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“2race”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“Planning is current and clear”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Nov 2024
Absolutely love the whole concept, not just for teaching computing but across the curriculum too.
Natalie Horner found Purple Mash:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“collection of work, ease of monitoring coverage etc”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Our children use it at home and school, they often practice what they have been taught in school during a lesson.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“All resources easy to use and source. Staff can prepare lessons and work 2DOs at home. The navigation is simple and easy to use.”
- Moderately improves teacher knowledge“Staff are able to upskill themselves with the support of the planning and explanations from PM.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Amy
Class Teacher and SENDCo
Used Purple Mash weekly for 3-4 years
Nov 2024
Purple Mash is brilliant and the staff, especially James Williams, are excellent
Amy found Purple Mash:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Sharing ideas for different topics such as anti-bullying etc and also topics throughout the curriculum”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“The Christmas card competition has encouraged other children to partake - the games and linking up with each others”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“The level of computing skills to teach is supported with the planning etc and definitely supports the teachers”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“Some of the things we need to teach are tricky but the planning, videos etc support that”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“It is clear the children who have used Purple Mash previously and those who have joined us from schools who have never used it”
Nov 2024
Gives us everything we need in one place, always being updated, wealth of resources for the whole curriculum.
Lisa found Purple Mash:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Well planned and resources lessons, easy to set homework tasks, great resources for computing lead.”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Collaborative tasks, activities can be completed in pairs, children supporting each other to complete tasks, we set family activities for homework.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Easy to adapt resources for individuals.”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“Good variety of support for teachers and computing lead”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Vocabulary emphasis, knowledge and skills recap questions, learning mats and knowledge organisers, clear progression and links”
Oct 2024
easy to use, supports student learning, easy way for teachers to find and share activities
Isabel found Purple Mash:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload
- Does not significantly increase student collaboration
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Activities, maths groups activities and differentiation,”
- Does not significantly improve teacher knowledge
- Significantly builds student knowledge“ways for them to consolidate learning, support in particular subjects”
Maria
ELearning teacher educator
Used Purple Mash occasionally for 5 years+
Oct 2024
Occasionally the application plays up on student iPads. This could be a connection issue. There are so activities within Purple Mash that teachers need time to explore and to see what will suit their teaching / learning activities. It is good to see activities that link with our NSW curriculum. The digital literacy activities are valuable - email protocols and cyber safety activities.
Maria found Purple Mash:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Tasks that are ready and easy to set”
- Does not significantly increase student collaboration“I have not tried using it collaboratively”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Being able to set a task easily without too much time to develop the task”
- Does not significantly improve teacher knowledge“There are some valuable resources that link to the digital literacy capabilities”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Applying their skills and knowledge to tasks”
Oct 2024
I have used Purple Mash for many years with students. It provides a range of easy to use, engaging tools for students to create content. It has resources that cover every area of the curriculum and cater to every student from Foundation to Year-6. Excellent support available if needed, and the students love using it.
Helen Collins found Purple Mash:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Purple Mash gives me access to hundreds of curriculum-aligned activities that are ready to use or modify and assign to my students.”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Students assist each other in creating games using 2DIY 3D and then email them to each other to play and review.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Students have a set of tools that they all know how to use. Purple Mash email can be used to share documents and websites or communicate with students.”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“Purple Mash provides helpful video tutorials and teacher tools.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Purple Mash provides a range of non-fiction books in a DK Library.”
Sep 2024
Purple Mash has had a great impact on our pupil engagement and learning. Teachers feel well supported using it and can assess pupils learning quickly.
Kenny found Purple Mash:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Reduced the amount of planning needed for lessons such as coding as all the lessons are fully planned and resourced. Reduced the time needed to produce resources for subjects such as History as there are a large number of resources that can be used by the pupils.”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Children are able to work collaboratively in programmes such as investigate.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“We use Purple Mash computing scheme which provides easy to follow lessons for the teachers. Teachers are able to work through the lessons efficiently.”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“Purple mash provides free CPD opportunities so that teachers can improve their knowledge. The lesson plans are simple to follow and provide teachers with step by step guides.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Pupils are able to complete tasks in a manner which develops their knowledge appropriately and then challenges them to apply their new learning.”
Sep 2024
Purple Mash has revolutionised the teaching of COmputing within our school. It provides clear planning, progression and assessment. The children love the activities and build their knowledge year on year.
Gill found Purple Mash:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“The planning, resources and PowerPoints are all available and are well planned.”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“The simplicity of the platform allows children to access and produce high quality work.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Very clear lessons and help and support to ensure understanding”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“Clear explanations allows steady progression of teacher knowledge.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Clear success criterias and stright forward learning”
