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How can we encourage children to read more? During the National Year of Reading, discover how following children's interests can inspire a love of reading. Explore practical tips for teachers and parents, and find out how the Purple Mash Library helps children discover books they love at school and at home.

The brand-new version of our online guided reading library Serial Mash is now live. There's a new look, improvements to existing functionality and lots more exciting new features to explore.

Turn any pupil’s work, classroom activity or resource into a whole-class learning moment - in seconds. Purple Mash Visualiser brings examples straight to your interactive whiteboard, ready to explore, discuss and improve together.

Simply use a mobile device or tablet to capture an image, then crop, resize, rotate, annotate or add notes on the board. You can save and share the finished work too - all without separate visualiser hardware, and all included in your Purple Mash subscription.

Visualiser is Mash of the Month for October - share how you have used #MashoftheMonth and you'll be entered into the monthly draw to win a 2Simple Goody bag!

Each month we will be highlighting a #MashoftheMonth, this will focus on a tool or application within Purple Mash and how it can be used within the classroom to support learning across the curriculum. During the month, if you share how you have used #MashoftheMonth, you will then be entered into a draw to win a 2Simple Goody Bag!

September's #MashoftheMonth is 2Quiz and its AI add-on (coming soon) which will make it even easier to create engaging and insightful quizzes.

Outdoor Classroom Day is a global movement to inspire and celebrate outdoor play and learning at school and at home. The twice-yearly event is a time for teachers to celebrate with a special day outdoors for their class. This years theme is 'Natures Classroom: Reconnecting with the wild'

There are plenty of outdoor learning activities that you can use to stimulate outdoor exploration and build on learning, come rain or shine...