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Read our blog for classroom activities and teaching ideas to celebrate Chinese New Year on 17th February. 2026 is the Year of the Horse.

World Space Week is a UN-declared celebration of space held annually from 4th to 10th October. This year's theme is 'Living in Space'. There are lots of Space resources within Purple Mash, Serial Mash and Python in Pieces that you can use to inspire children throughout the week, to infinity and beyond!

Find out everything that's new at 2Simple for the 2026/27 school year in this handy blog for you to read at your leisure. Included are improvements, updates and brand new releases for the whole of the last academic year.

Python in Pieces is an interactive coding environment, designed for Secondary Schools to enable teachers to confidently teach the Python language while fostering independent learning and giving hands-on experience for students.

In this blog we have hear from two of the developers of the program, where they discuss what Python in Pieces is, and how it supports computing in Secondary schools.

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