St Martha’s P2 Session 1

2020-03-02T17:07:42+00:00

Tuesday 25th February 2020 What an exciting day we had at St Martha’s STORYPLAY on Tuesday! We met the P2’s for the very first time and introduced a brilliant and creative class to our Playcard Play sessions! We made ourselves as Big as a Bear and as Fast as a Hare! Can you remember any of the animals we pretended to be?! We got to know the Funky Chicken and Dayle told us about the Stomping Dinosaur! Sumia introduced us to the Angry Cheetah and Motaz welcomed the Scary Tiger! We had a great time meeting Blaine’s Laughing Rhino too! We took a trip high in the sky in Flying Balloons and we saw some amazing things down below. Karam luckily warned us about the Rocket launch and we safely watched it from our balloons! Phew! Kristian saw his Dad, Brother and Grandma in Trinidad and Tobago and we all waved at them from our Balloons! Aleen’s balloon took her high above Syria and Brayden showed us the giant stomping through the river trying to catch the Pirate Ship sailing on the seven seas! The class cackled liked a witch! Mwhahahahaaaa! And they ran away when our Witches drank a bottle of… POISON! Ruby told the class all about her Grandma and we learned a new song and some new dance moves! Can you remember how the song goes? [...]

St Martha’s P2 Session 12020-03-02T17:07:42+00:00

St Martha’s P1 Session 1

2020-03-02T13:20:42+00:00

Tuesday 25th February 2020 We had a fantastic first session of STORYPLAY with Primary 1 at St Martha's Primary this week! Primary One and Mrs Reid all threw themselves into the start of the Storyplay residency on Tuesday! We were all as BIG as a BEAR and as FAST as a HARE! We did the Flying Allacorn, the Scary Lion, the Silly Crocodile, the Angry Bee & the Funky Chicken! We all flew high over Glasgow and the world in our multi-coloured Flying Balloons – before the Naughty Seagull popped them! We saw dragons flying past the moon! We dressed ourselves up in fabulous costumes! Mrs Reid and children were Witches and we met some marvellous grannies living in castles in the forest keeping an eye out for the Monster trees! (Granny Hannah showed us her home-made pickled onions!). We travelled to Jupiter in the Magic Ball, put on our flying capes and met an alien in a cave where we ate mushrooms and ice-cream! We helped another alien fix her spaceship. We had a picnic and we jumped into a crater and fell down into the sea to swim! It just shows that in our imaginations we can be anyone, go anywhere and do anything and that all we need to play like this is each other! We had a fantastic Lickety Art Gallery! [...]

St Martha’s P1 Session 12020-03-02T13:20:42+00:00

Oakwood P4 Storyplay Session 4

2020-02-27T12:25:28+00:00

Session 4 24th February 2020 We had another wonderful day on Monday with Primary 4! We started with the warm-up to get our minds and bodies working and created lots of our own rhymes and similes with actions. The whole class then had ten minutes to go and write down pairs of rhyming similes. Here are some fantastic examples: As boingy as a kangaroo that went wohoo! – Derek As bouncy as a trampoline and as sad as a scene – William As yummy as a cake and as cold as a snowflake – Mason D As tall as a tower and as big as a flower – Amber As warm as tea and as giggly as me! – Kasey Jump as high as a bunny and as round as money – Alina As slimey as a snake and as big as a cake! – Kaydie As big as a giant and as long as the titanic, as wiggly as a worm and as squiggly as a squiggle – Kasey As cozy as a nook and as crook as a book – Tommy As loud as a dog and as white as fog – Jodi We followed this with Funky Chicken which was started off by Mason D. We had lots of [...]

Oakwood P4 Storyplay Session 42020-02-27T12:25:28+00:00

Oakwood P4 Storyplay Session 3

2020-02-24T13:50:13+00:00

Session 3 19th February 2020 We had another great day with Oakwood’s P4s! We started with Storyplay games and our ‘Big as a Bear’ warm-up grew into a new group poem of similes and actions like 'Make yourself  as... ‘Smiley as a person!’  ‘as Spikey as a hedgehog!’, 'as Rolly as a ball!’, and ‘as Slow as a Sloth!’ We flew off in our Magic Balloons again high over Scotland and the world …seeing stories unfolding far below us! Then we sat and told each other the story of the Molly Whuppie LicketyTale we saw on Monday. Everyone had fantastic recall of the story in great detail. Ten of us dressed up as the King! And twenty of us dressed up as the Giant! We had great fun exploring our castles and our gardens! The Kings paraded to join the Giants and we met all the characters. The Giants interviewed the Kings & then sang gardening songs and did a bit of gardening. As Cold as a Popsicle - Damon As Chocolatey as an Easter Egg - Millie As yummy as a Cake - Kayleigh As Hungry as a Wolf - Ava As Loud as Music - Lily As Soft as a White Tiger - Kaydie As slow as a sloth climbing down a [...]

Oakwood P4 Storyplay Session 32020-02-24T13:50:13+00:00

Oakwood P4 Storyplay Sessions 1 & 2

2020-02-21T12:27:37+00:00

17th February 2020 This Spring at Oakwood we are working with Primary 4 on a Storyplay literacy residency. All of the children's written & artwork can be looked at on our Facebook page - a selection of pics are below. Session 1 In our first session on Monday, we played a selection of Lickety Playcard games and did reflective drawing and writing. Everyone came up with a Funky Chicken animal, and wrote down this as well as what they had seen from their Flying Balloons. We had a very wholehearted game of Monsters Footsteps with Summer & Darryn as enthusiastic Granny's! In the Magic Ball... we landed on a cold Star. We saw a mountain - someone thought it might be Everest! We handed out boots & hiking sticks, being quiet in case we surprised anything! We all hiked bravely up the mountain, jumping over a crevice, someone saw a polar bear, someone else saw a giant diamond! We encountered two aliens - everyone shook hands with the first and fed biscuits to the second. Someone else gave it Goo. We found the alien’s broken spaceship and everyone got involved in mending it - finding wood, screw-drivers etc. Then we jumped into a crater & fell down into the sea, where we saw lots of sea creatures. Finally, we all had a sleep by the sea looking up [...]

Oakwood P4 Storyplay Sessions 1 & 22020-02-21T12:27:37+00:00

Storyplay is Starting at Miltonbank & St Martha’s!

2020-02-20T12:16:49+00:00

18th February 2020 We are very excited to be starting STORYPLAY at Miltonbank Primary later this month and St Martha's Primary at the start of March! Virginia has already met the teachers and delivered Storyplay CPD. We'll be doing LicketyLeap and Porridge & Play with families at Miltonbank and Playcard Play at both schools, with Celebration Assemblies planned for the last week of March. Visit the Miltonbank and St Martha's Storyplay pages for more details of what we’re doing at your school and blog updates once we've started! To find out more about Storyplay, click here. To join the Children & Families Network return the form to school or join online here.

Storyplay is Starting at Miltonbank & St Martha’s!2020-02-20T12:16:49+00:00

Picnic & Play at the CCH

2020-02-18T12:20:10+00:00

9th Feb 2020 We had a very friendly, relaxed Picnic & Play at the CCH with 42 people (14 families) on Sunday, to mark #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek. Newcomers to Lickety Play took to the session brilliantly and everyone was very supportive and warm towards one another. It was also great to see some families from St Mary's Storyplay, and from our sessions with the Scottish Refugee Council. Highlights included the focused concentration of Witches Fingers, the confident animals from across the room in Funky Chicken, and of course, the wonderful Dressing Up! Scenes from Flying Balloons appeared in many of the Reflective Drawings - including sharks, Saturn, elephants and Darshan's Dad's Red Castle! Thank you all for joining us for our first Picnic & Play of 2020, where we we saw the innate kindness, generosity and creativity of our communities in action, with everyone participating and lots of smiles. Children's Feedback Everyone was taking part and we all had a lot of fun. Today was so much fun. I will definitely come again! (10 year-old) Shidvik - that's an elephant with me and my sis on top. I see the balloon high flying. I would like to fly to Scotland! I liked having my sister to play with. And in my other drawing I have a funky chicken and a flower and a lion! (4 year-old) It's me flying [...]

Picnic & Play at the CCH2020-02-18T12:20:10+00:00

CFN Trips to Celtic Connections 2020

2020-01-23T13:15:36+00:00

CFN Trip to Danny Kyle Stage, Celtic Connections 20th January 2020 We've had a couple of great CFN Trips to Celtic Connections this week!   On Monday, 38 of us went to the Danny Kyle Open Stage at the The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. We saw some great bands like the Flying Penguins and singers like Lisa Kowalski. We heard fiddle, whistle, guitar, and clarsach! There even a song in Spanish which was greatly enjoyed by our CFN Salvadoran families! Thanks to the Scottish Refugee Council for their support with travel costs.  CFN Trip to Music is our Language at Maryhill Integration Network 22nd January 2020 On Wednesday, we went to the Maryhill Integration Network 'Music is our Language' gig - also part of Celtic Connections. 3 families came along with Ruby, but we also bumped into 4 more families in the CFN who live in Maryhill! We saw the wonderful, multi-cultural Joyous Choir, who performed songs in several languages, an Iranian band and Ayawara drummers! There was facepainting and delicious food. It was a busy, buzzing event. We're so glad to be part of #cultureforeveryone!

CFN Trips to Celtic Connections 20202020-01-23T13:15:36+00:00

Picnic & Play Spring 2020

2024-06-05T15:40:51+00:00

16th January 2020Catch up on the Spring 2020 Picnic & Play sessions here! With sessions at the Dream Machine,Hidden Gardens, Museum of Scotland and more, we had so much fun with imaginary playand exploration in some of the most exciting arts and culture venues in Edinburgh and Glasgow This spring we are playing at:  Community Central Halls Dream Machine, Glasgow See pics from our Big Porridge & Play Gorbals Trip to the Dream Machine here. Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh Hidden Gardens, Glasgow Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh Kelvin Meadow, Glasgow

Picnic & Play Spring 20202024-06-05T15:40:51+00:00

Take 2: CFN Festive Trips!

2019-12-10T10:01:31+00:00

CFN Trip to Rosemount Development Trust 30th Anniversary Celebrations 01st December 2019 It was great to join the Royston community for an afternoon of Christmassy fun for Rosemount Development Trust's 30th anniversary. Ruby, our Children and Families Network producer, went along with a couple of CFN families from Maryhill and the Gorbals and a few of their friends. It was great to meet lots of new families and join them in a family takeover of Royston Road with a lantern parade featuring fantastic Caterpillar Lanterns decorated by local groups and classes. The Glasgow Playbus was another highlight - a huge double decker bus full of soft play tunnels and obstacles! It was also good to get some hot homemade lentil soup (a bit like our Porridge & Play soup!) made by Julia and her colleagues at North Glasgow Community Food Initiative - thank you! CFN Trip to see A Lad in Maryhill Pantomime 4th December 2019 It was great to be joined by families from Maryhill, Ruchill and Govanhill for our CFN trip to the panto here at the CCH. We're grateful to Halo Arts and the West End Festival for the preview night tickets. It was especially good to play a round of Funky Chicken while we had our mince pies beforehand! Good to see some older children from St Marys Storyplay 2018 still playing [...]

Take 2: CFN Festive Trips!2019-12-10T10:01:31+00:00

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