Transform your Tutoring with Purple Mash

July 24, 2026

Tutors can now get a subscription to all the resources on Purple Mash, helping you to teach interactive, inspiring lessons. Find out more about the resources and tools in our blog.

With a Purple Mash subscription, tutors get up to 20 student accounts for just £150 a year.

Why not try it free for 2 weeks? There's no need to enter payment details until you decide to take out a subscription.

What is Purple Mash?

Purple Mash is an innovative and comprehensive online platform designed to empower educators. It offers a wealth of tools and resources that cater to a wide range of subjects and student age groups, making it a versatile asset for tutors. Tutors can utilise Purple Mash to design activities and assessments tailored to the unique needs of their students. The platform also offers a vast library of educational resources, including games and printable worksheets to supplement lessons.

Purple Mash is available to tutors at £150 for one year, and includes up to 20 pupil accounts.

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Here are just some of the great features you'll have access to as a tutor:

Purple Mash Library

Included as part of a Purple Mash subscription is the Purple Mash Library, an online library of over 250 books and downloadable comprehension resources. Pupils have home access to the whole of Purple Mash - including the library - and books can be set for home learning, expanding your reach as a tutor even further! Inside the Purple Mash Library, you'll find:

🔴Rubies - Picture Books

🟣Diamonds - Recommended for ages 5-7

🟢Emeralds - Recommended for ages 7-9

🔵Sapphires - Recommended for ages 9-11

🔥 Fire bolts - Books to motivate and promote eager reading

☄Comets - Longer novels for ages 9-11

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📝 Poetry - A collection of poems and linked activities for ages 5-11

📖DK Learning - Dynamic, inspiring and engaging books from Dorling Kindersley

More Reading Resources

Also included inside Purple Mash is a large selection of shorter DK Learning information texts, perfect for exploring topics and children's specific interests.

There are also some fantastic resources to use alongside popular children's texts, including resources for:

  • Funnybones
  • Handa's Surprise
  • The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark
  • The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch
  • Room on the Broom
  • Flat Stanley
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • The Iron Man
  • Fantastic Mr Fox
  • Escape from Pompeii
  • Oliver Twist
  • The Explorer
  • Journey to the River Sea
  • Kensuke's Kingdom
  • Wonder

Writing Templates

The fully-editable writing templates within Purple Mash mean you can ensure all of your resources are at the right level for your students, and cater to their interests easily. With the templates, you can add sentence prompts and key words to help them with their ideas, as well as changing the background colour and font to help any children with dyslexia.

Writing templates can be used online, set as a 2Do so your student can complete it outside of your lesson time. Or, you can print them off to use offline.

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Printable Resources

In addition to printable writing templates, there are vast amounts of other printable resources.

If you're working on spelling with your students, there are dictation and Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check sheets included in our whole school Spelling Scheme of Work. There are also resources for homophones and prefixes within the English Printable Resources folder. If you're working with younger students, there are even Phonics printables including flashcards.

For maths, there are number lines and number squares as well as printable worksheets.

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Interactive Games

Break up your tutoring sessions with fun and educational interactive games that are sure to boost your students' key skills. There are a wide array of maths games, with Monster Multiplication being a firm favourite... and there's even a Multiplication Tables Check tool to prepare your Year 4 tutees. Alongside these are grammar games for ages 5-11 where students can practise verb tenses, punctuation and sentence building.