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We're celebrating National Pet Month from 1st April to 2nd May. It's all about raising awareness for pet welfare and spreading the word about responsible pet ownership. In this blog, as well as looking at some Purple Mash resources you can use during this time, we also meet some of the pets of 2Simple.

We were recently lucky enough to be invited to Sunnyfields, a lovely one form entry primary school in North London to see how the 2Simple Centre for Excellence school use Purple Mash across the curriculum. With their high usage across subject areas and outstanding teaching of computing, we knew this would be a great place to visit.

Find out all about our Purple Mash Roadshow events, designed to boost your primary computing teaching with hands-on CPD, practical classroom ideas, and expert guidance. Discover tools, connect with educators, and explore the latest innovations in a supportive, collaborative setting.

The new DfE enrichment framework sets out eight enrichment benchmarks to help schools and colleges in England review, strengthen and improve their offer, with a clear focus on access, breadth, communication, partnership, outcomes and continuous improvement. Explore the benchmarks for schools and discover how Purple Mash can help primary schools offer broad, inclusive and engaging enrichment opportunities.

The Purple Mash Festive Card Competition gave children the chance to design the official 2Simple festive card on any festive theme they wanted. In less than 3 weeks we received over 8,000 entries from schools worldwide across four age groups, and a school staff category. Thank you to everyone who took part. Now, after much deliberation, our elves have chosen the winners...