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Raising standards through creativity

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2Simple Software, Enterprise House, 2 The Crest, London, NW4 2HN, UK • T: +44 (0)20 8203 1781 •[email protected] • www.2simple.com

Writing Tools

Write together in real time using this powerful and collaborative word processing tool.

Children aged 3-7 can combine words, pictures, sounds and animation to create engaging stories in minutes.

Turn yourself into a wide range of modern, fantasy and historical characters. Write in the speech bubble and record your voice.

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Choose from a wide variety of templates, from poignant poems to intricate instructions. Add clipart, import pictures or draw your own illustrations to bring literacy to life. 2Publish is a versatile tool that can be used in any subject. The more advanced features in 2Publish Extra ensure that children are always kept challenged and engaged as they develop their literacy and publishing skills.

2Publish and 2Publish Extra

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Introducing Purple Mash

KEYOur tools are powerful and versatile. They span subjects, age groups and devices. These handy icons help to give you the big picture!

CreativityPurple Mash is an award-winning website for children aged 3 to 11. It is a creative space where children can apply and enhance their knowledge through:

Writing in a wide range of formats

Designing and making 3D models

Programming instructions and algorithms

Compiling and interrogating databases

Exploring shape, colour and texture with

themed painting

Designing, playing and sharing their own

digital gamesEngaging with role play through

meaningful stimuli

Developing maths skills with games and qrole play

Creating animations and much more!

Anytime, Anywhere LearningBeing online, children can use Purple Mash at school, at home and anywhere they have an internet connection. Children can start work at school, save it to their Purple Mash document storage and continue from home; an ideal way to engage parents and strengthen home-school links. All subscriptions include free home access.

Curricula2Simple employs a team of senior educational professionals who ensure that you are supported no matter which curriculum you follow. You will find new activities and applications appear in this ever-growing resource and hours will be saved on lesson planning with our ready-to-use curriculum themed activities.

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English D & T

Science

History

Music

CrossCurricular

Literature

Maths

Computing

3 to 5 7 to 9

Art

5 to 7

We’re committed to making the whole of Purple Mash tablet friendly and we’re making good progress. Look out for the ‘tablet symbol’. All future releases will be tablet friendly.

Tablet Devices

9 to 11

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Creative Arts

Design your own 3D models with this primary C.A.D software. Print them out and make them up to bring your designs to life.

Become a master composer with this fun music maker. Create multi-track musical sequences using pre-recorded sound banks.

Animate sequences and processes using the drawing tools then play your animations.

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An enjoyable way to get virtually messy! Children can develop their artistic skills and explore shapes, patterns and textures. Artists of all ages will enjoy exploring their creative side with this open ended tool. The 170+ themed projects are perfect for younger children. The scaffolds and textured paints let children as young as 3 create wonderful artworks, perfect for school displays.

Paint Projects

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Computing

Guide an object around the screens using arrows and degree turns. Create a game or write a sentence about the journey.

Program instructions, algorithms and routines to control the on-screen turtle. Create shapes or letters.

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Children as young as five will love learning 2Code. The ready-made Guided Lessons introduce new concepts gradually, ensuring that learners always feel confident. There are also plenty of debugging challenges along the way. Once they’ve become competent coders children can hone their skills by exploring the free code arenas.

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Create, play and share your own 3D maze game. Write instructions to accompany it.

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The 800+ themed publishing projects inspire writing and save teachers planning and preparation time.

Each provides a range of stimuli: videos, writing prompts, word banks, success criteria, themed photographs and clipart. Covering a wide range of themes from the Stone Age to debates and styles, from poems to newspaper articles, the publishing projects are sure to get that creative keyboard flowing.

Themed Publishing Activities

Poems

Persuasive writingNon-fiction writing

Publishing Projects Leaflets

Postcards

Sequencing

Newspaper reportsLetter writingInstructional writing

When opening a themed project you are greeted with clear written and video instructions and lesson objectives.

Writer’s check lists are a great way to help learners keep a focus on punctuation, vocabulary and sentence structure ensuring they get the most out of their writing.

The publishing projects are pre-differentiated and contain sentence starters, word banks and “Think about” prompts.

The publishing projects come with tailored clipart and photo banks to bring their texts to life and allow them to concentrate on their writing.

Introduction screens Writer’s check lists Word prompts Clipart


Maths

Create a range of block charts, pie charts and line graphs to display information.

Six fast-paced games for division, fractions, factors, functions, sequencing and number bonds.

Introducing numbers through a range of pictograms. Create graphs about various topics.

Maths Games 2Count

Ideal for use on an interactive whiteboard to teach and assess concepts. Many activities have spoken or sung instructions to encourage independent play as the children collaborate to solve problems. Videos in each area help children see maths as real and purposeful, showing how adults use maths skills in their jobs and children use the language of maths as part of role play.

Maths City 1 & 2

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Classics

Improve your typing speed, spelling and letter familiarity with a series of typing activities.

Explore 10 locations such as the park, recycling centre and the doctors to develop meaningful role play.

2Investigate 2Type Simple City

2Simple’s award winning 2DIY has been reimagined for use on the iPad as well as through Purple Mash. Create your own activities, quizzes, games and curriculum resources with this versatile and powerful tool. Share your creations with anyone, anywhere and save your resources to use again with other classes.

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Develop your computer skills by building collaborative databases and interrogating the data in a visual way.

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2Start English 2Simple Spanish / French Phonics

Understand and communicate, whether you are new to English or would enjoy the open-ended and creative activities.

Quickly instill confidence in the non-specialist primary teacher. There are over 200 activities for the whole class, pairs or individuals.

Systematic, synthetic phonics program for whole-class teaching. An audio visual environment for reinforcing blending and segmenting.

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Reading

Interactive stories about the past, seaside, market, the River Thames and the Great Fire of London.

Five multimedia texts exploring a poem, a play, a narrative and stimuli for report and instructional writing.

Five interactive stories with creative activities bring the art of storytelling to life in the classroom.

Talking Stories Literacy Collection Stories 2 Tell

Serial Mash is a growing library of gripping fiction books for children aged 7-11. We serialise two books at a time, with new chapters released weekly to keep young readers on the edge of their seats. The books come complete with quizzes, teacher resource sheets and extended writing activities. By September 2015 there will be over twenty books inside Serial Mash! Give every child in your school access to a library of books to read at school and at home.

Serial Mash

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“The variety of tools and content in Purple Mash means that children

can follow their interests and develop their talents in a personalised

way. We would heartily recommend this website to any school. It

really is the way forward for ICT and computing in schools.”David Griffiths, Deputy Headteacher, Ton Yr Ywen Primary School.

“The Purple Mash activities are a wonderful addition to any

classroom. They enable teachers to embed technology in a meaningful

way throughout all areas of the curriculum.”Mark Warner, ICT Coordinator, The Downs CE Primary School.

“Purple Mash is a wonderful resource to support children’s learning

both in and beyond the classroom. The individual logins and online

saving have had a great impact in our school. What better way for

encouraging home school links. Certainly the best website on the

internet for Primary School children to do creative work on.”Simon Haughton, ICT Manager, Parkfield Primary School.

2Simple Software, Enterprise House, 2 The Crest, London, NW4 2HN, UK • T: +44 (0)20 8203 1781 •[email protected] • www.2simple.com

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