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Save time and stress by using our Mash Club for your extra-curricular club. Mash Club is an after-school computing club aimed at KS2 students with three terms of 8 self-guided sessions, where your pupils will learn to code and blog.

The 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup will be the largest tournament in the competition’s history, and we've got a BIG load of resources to match, so you can bring the World Cup cheer to your classroom (and the school field). Grab yourself a free World Cup lesson pack, and develop your students' football skills and knowledge of the beautiful game.

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!

June's Mash of the Month is the Purple Mash AI Add-On!

As part of National Volunteering Week, find out how your school can support The Children’s Book Project and help tackle book poverty across the UK. Learn why book ownership matters, explore simple ways to get involved through school book drives and Book Monsters, and see how your school community can help put more books into the hands of children who need them most. Just one small act of volunteering can inspire a lifelong love of reading.

On World Ocean Day, 8th June, people around our blue planet will be coming together to celebrate and honour our oceans. The ocean connects us all, between countries and across the world and by working together, we must protect and restore our oceans. The conservation action focus this year is 'Strong Marine Protected Areas for Our Blue Planet'.

To teach your students about World Ocean Day, we have several resources on Purple Mash that you can use.