Postcard for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee

A new activity has been added to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Category on Purple Mash.  You can now write a postcard to a friend or relative describing the celebrations. Click here to have a look and start writing!

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Wonderful New Leaflets and Postcards On Purple Mash

We sure have been busy here at the Purple Mash office and we have just  added lots of wonderful new leaflets and postcards.

Create an information leaflet about lots of new places, including New York, Paris, Rome and Tokyo.

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Greek Myths on Purple Mash

We now have a collection of new apptivities and paint projects based on popular Greek Myths on Purple Mash! You can write about:

King Midas, who who turned everything to gold

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Olympic Leaflets Continued…

4B’s at Bidston Avenue Primary School Olympic leaflets are coming along nicely. We can’t believe that the Olympics Games are only 2 months away – the opening ceremony is on the 27th July!

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2DIY Coding Challenge

Eve from Porchester Junior has been working really hard and nearly completed her 2DIY coding challenge. We are really impressed with her work!

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Making Vehicles With 2Design & Make

Year 3/4 at Flakefleet School have been making vehicles during computer club using 2Design & Make on Purple Mash. They look fantastic!

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Fantastic Work at the ISD Using Purple Mash!

Children at the International School of Düsseldorf (ISD) have been really busy working and having fun with Purple Mash! Below are just a few examples of some of the great things they have done. For more check out their blog.

Prep class have been drawing their own minibeast, then choosing one from Purple Mash and writing writing reports on them:

Prep 3 have ‘built’ homes with the Investigation program ‘Shapes’. They discussed how important it is to have a home and that some people do not have a home and therefore get wet and have to live on the street. They decided to create nice houses for their ‘Homes’ Unit:

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Creating Advanced Games in 2DIY

As part of the after school coding club run on a Thursday, Simon Widdowson, from Porchester Junior School , has created a fantastic guide to enable his children to get on with exploring, learning and playing with ActionScript.

If you want your children to also be able to create advanced games in 2DIY with ActionScript coding then take a look!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3367189/2diy_coding_helpbooklet.pdf

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Designing A House For Hansel and Gretel

Foundation children from Bidston Avenue Primary have been using Purple Mash to design a house that Hansel and Gretel wouldn’t be able to resist! It looks so delicious we want to eat it too!

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Coding in 2DIY

Dylan at Porchester Junior School has been busy creating his own Pacman game during the afterschool club, and has been learning how to use some ActionScript coding to make a character ‘teleport’ to another area of the screen. He has used it to great effect within his game as a way to travel from one side of the screen to the other. Click HERE to try out his game…it’s great FUN!

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