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March 16th-22nd marks Sign Language Week - discover how UK schools can embed BSL into everyday school culture with free resources from School of Signs and Purple Mash.

Give children real-life context to their coding by programming a physical device - something they can control with their code off-screen. Purple Chip, is a Purple Mash app which allows students to control an external device using code created in 2Code Purple Chip.

Join in with the Geographical Association's National Festival of Fieldwork throughout the month of June with resources on Purple Mash. This year's theme is 'Fieldwork for Everyone' which links to their 2024 Conference, and is a flexible and adaptable theme.

VE day or Victory in Europe day marks the day when the guns fell silent at the end of the war in Europe. The announcement that the war in Europe had ended came at 3pm on 8th May 1945, by Prime Minister Winston Churchill. There are several activities within Purple Mash that can be used by children to commemorate VE Day.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is based in New York City and represents the single largest and most comprehensive collection of materials on East European Jewish civilization in the world. Dedicated to preserving the stories of Jewish life, much of their work focuses on the history and culture of East European Jewry - the ancestry of a significant number of Jewish people in the world today.

Click here to view the resources created with YIVO. We would love to see completed work so please share  on X  @2SimpleSoftware or @PurpleMash, or on Facebook @2SimpleUK using #Mash Partner