Kingsland only started using Purple Mash this school year (2018-19) and has already been recognised as a 2Simple School of Excellence. In fact, it’s worth noting that the school has a strong commitment to ICT in general: it has achieved the ICT Mark and is the Apple Regional Training Centre for Stoke.

In November, the 2Simple Marketing team alongside a film crew visited Harbour Primary in Newhaven, East Sussex. This school had been recommended to us by our Sales Manager Katie, for showcasing outstanding Purple Mash usage. We knew that this was a school that we had to visit!

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In a time where the digital world is vast and forever accessible, it is easy to lose track of what kind of content your child is accessing online. Children are becoming increasingly tech-savvy, so much in fact that it makes it hard for parents to keep up. Well, do not fear, the digital parenting guide is here!

The internet is brilliant, both for finding useful stuff to communicating with other people. Unfortunately, there are also lots of ways to be unsafe online. There are the “obvious” (to teachers) ones like not publishing personal information online -- did you know, for example, that someone needs only three items of personal information to steal someone’s identity or, in the case of children, find out who they are in the “real world”?