Round Six

Purple Mash: https://www.purplemash.com/#tab/home

This is a free subscription website that schools can sign up and use, it is useful for teachers and is suitable for children to use. It is a company website that is provided to schools as an interactive educational resource. This website is suitable for ages from Early Years to KS2 and provides a wide variety of activities and writing projects for multiple topics and subjects.

The website is easy to use with simplistic tools, which children can use to create drawings, leaflets and other work on any chosen topic. These activities can be done individually or in pairs I do not think it is appropriate for whole class use. Children can use this website with little or no adult supervision and can easily save their work in progress and come back to it at a later date.

I have looked at different types of activities in different topic areas. The Car counting activity could be used in Early Years to help the children compare numbers and count quantities. The Pancake instruction activity would be good in science and English to help the children write in the form of instructions, using pictures and key vocabulary like next, now.

Overall this website is very interactive and suits many ages however it could provide more of a variety of activities rather than just writing and drawing tasks. I also feel the layout of tasks would be easier to find and ensure they were age appropriate if they were under a tab for each key stage.

Science: the seasons Science: Foods

Science: Pancake Making Instructions History: Medusa

Maths: Counting Cars in Quantity