Purplemash

I guess we are relatively late in jumping on board the Purplemash bandwagon as we have only had a subscription since September this year. However, our school is increasingly becoming hooked!


We have signed up so that we can access Mash through our Uniservity learning platform. This way the children can save any work created using Mash into their own space easily. Once into Purplemash there are thousands of activities that can be used in all parts of the curriculum.


These are the activities I plan to use in Year Four this year:

• Postcards - at the beginning of the year we will send postcards to our headteacher.
• Newspapers - we will use the grids in 2Publish extra to write newspaper reports.
• Roman and Viking resources - lots of cross-curricular work can be done here.
• 2Investigate - to explore the idea of databases.
• Logo - to introduce programming.
• 2Animate - to create a slideshow about our residential later in the year.
• 2Graph - to enhance our work in handling data in maths.
• 2Type - to continue to develop our typing skills.
• Maths games - we tried some of these in Year Three and they proved to be popular, so we'll give them another go.
• 2Sequence - to bring ICT into music.

I'm sure they'll be loads more facilities that we'll use, in particular in 2Publish and 2Publish Extra.

I love the fact that we can start something in school and then it can be finished at home!

How do you use Purplemash in Year Four?