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Save time and stress by using our Mash Club for your extra-curricular club. Mash Club is an after-school (or maybe even lunchtime) computing club aimed at Year 2 - 6 students with three terms of 8 self-guided sessions, where your students will learn to code and blog.

The Purple Mash Browser App makes using Purple Mash on tablets a smoother experience, and allows children to focus only on the activities at hand. Find out how to download and install it in this blog, as well as its latest updates and features.

Discover our exciting partnership with DK Learning - enjoy new DK eBooks and text spreads, with comprehension quizzes - all added termly to Purple Mash and Serial Mash.

Teaching Python to Years 7, 8 and 9 students (ages 11–14) is both exciting and challenging. At this stage, learners are ready to move on from visual, block-based programming to text-based coding. With the right support, they can develop skills that will set them up for success throughout their computing education.

This guide shares practical strategies, project ideas, and resources to help you deliver Python lessons that engage every learner.

Looking for a flexible way to teach reading, or a budget-friendly way of enhancing your school library provision without signing up to a whole reading scheme of work? Take a look inside Serial Mash and see how it can support reading lessons in your school with an abundance of fiction and non-fiction texts, along with a variety of focused activities.