Find out all about our Picnic & Plays with the Bridgeton, Castlemilk and Cranhill Hubs! These Blog posts show what we got up to and all the Storyplay-ing we did! Porridge & Play Hubs is running throughout 2022 with this block being the 2nd of our exciting New Scots Integration Project! Thank you to everyone who has partnered with us to provide such amazing experiences for our children & families, and to all our Storyplay Champions!  Picnic & Play at Castlemilk Park!! Wednesday 18th May Magic Map, Magic Map show us the path to CASTLEMILK PARK! Jack’s Magic Map showed us that in fact Emma, Jared & Levi knew the path already and so they took the lead and guided us all from Castlemilk Community Centre to the woods at the heart of Castlemilk Park where we met our new friend, Stuart! It was a lovely afternoon and we merrily walked using Jack’s Magic Map to guide us into the heart of Castlemilk Park. With Jared’s help we were able to find Park Ranger Stuart! Stuart told us to follow him, to be careful with our steps as the woods have bumpy grounds and to keep our eyes and ears at the ready, for the woods do have many creatures and interesting wildlife for everyone to enjoy. Stuart had even set up a wee [...]

Find out what the Castlemilk group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by TAZ! Week 6 of Castlemilk Porridge & Play!! Wednesday 27th April Potato parathas! By Amina Chicken mince kebabs & Chicken spring rolls & Green Chutney! By Sayeda Fruit chaat! By Huma  Chocolate Orange cheesecakes & Banana Loaf! By Emma Baklava! By Amira What a delicious feast we had at our Castlemilk Hub celebration! We wanted to celebrate by all of us getting together on Wednesday to eat & play! We also wanted to tell our Castlemilk pals about all the exciting things coming up for our Picnic & Play sessions. So, we got the bunting up, we blew up some colourful balloons and we sat round a very exciting looking table of new flavours for all of us to try! Everyone enjoyed tasting each other's foods and we even got the recipes for some of the delicious dishes. There was a lot of chat about our upcoming Picnic & Play trips and many, like Pemi, Fire, Ife and Arwa seemed very excited about visiting Troon beach in June. Emma was very [...]

Find out what the Castlemilk group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by TAZ! Week 5 of Castlemilk Porridge & Play!! Wednesday 20th April We are the pirates BOLD! We don’t give a monkeys if it’s COLD! We don’t care if the world is BIG! We don’t give a monkeys & we don’t give a FIG! WE ARE PIRATES! Our motley crew were puzzled when Pirate Andre started to run around screaming with excitement followed by Captain Taz screaming even louder with excitement…  ‘You found it! CREW, do you know what this is?’  ‘A coin!’  ‘A diamond!’  ‘A treasure?’  ‘This, my meanest crew of Pirates, is a MAGIC BALL’  ‘OOOOOOOOHHHH’ Magic Ball! Magic Ball! Take us where we want to go! WOOOOOOSH! Deep in the jungle the crew was mesmerized…what would we find? ‘Is that a tiger?’ Carefully we crawled towards the biggest tiger a Pirate had ever seen! Kevin and Sarim, who are fluent in speaking tiger, worked out that it was very hungry, so we bargained that instead of eating us, Abu & Jared would make the Tiger some toast with jam that Amina had with her! The tiger was so happy that he sent [...]

Find out what the Castlemilk group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by TAZ! Week 4 of Castlemilk Porridge & Play!! Wednesday 30th March Licketyspit & our Castlemilk pals got together once again at Castlemilk Community Centre on the last Wednesday before the Easter holidays. We sat around the table tucking into our beautiful food and we welcomed a new family Yang, Li, Celine & Lewis who joined in with lovely smiles, ready for some Porridge & Play! ‘I am a witch! HAHAHAHA!’ The witchy cackles could be heard all over Castlemilk! Anita was a very cheery witch & Catherine the Witch tickled Taz to the ground when she got her!! Eshal & Jared were two very tricksy witches working together to get us all and Yang a was very focused witch! 'Mucky Me, Mucky You, Mucky Mucky Mucky Brew!' Rotten egg and pizza sauce, Scoop some slime out of a pot! Pasta, cake, whipped cream in your ears Plant your face in jelly without any fears! Mix it all up, make a big mess Spread all ingredients all over your face! Jump in the shower and wash it all off Then dry in the dryer [...]

Find out what the Castlemilk group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by TAZ! Week 3 of Castlemilk Porridge & Play!! Wednesday 23rd March Licketyspit's Castlemilk Sunny Day Cake Recipe INGREDIENTS: 3 Licketyspit actors 7 families 22 children 1 big enough space Your  amazing imaginations! METHOD: -Walk about your community and get to your nearest Community Centre. -Say hi to everyone and find the Porridge & Play room - Enjoy a lovely bowl of soup & bread, fresh fruit and juice while you have a catch up with your friends - Make a nice BIG CIRCLE so you can see everyone and everyone can see you! - Warm up your body, voice and brain with Big As A Bear - Have a round of Funky Chicken - Dress up in old clothes to create a fabulous character like, for example, a Crazy Chef - Sit in your Big Circle in front of the biggest imaginary mixing bowl you’ve ever encountered and get all the Chefs to add in any ingredients that takes their fancy! - Mix it all up, transfer to the big cake tin and bake in the oven! By Taz, Andre & our Castlemilk [...]

Find out what the Castlemilk group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by TAZ! Week 2 of Castlemilk Porridge & Play!! Wednesday 16th March In a Haunted House with cobwebs, and maybe even some spiders but no ghosts, lived three Grannies: Granny Arwa, Granny Hadir and Granny Mosaab. Granny Summer was just visiting. Grannies Emma, Levi and Jared lived in a tree house and in their garden they grew all types of veg and in their orchard they had bananas and strawberries and even blueberries. However their favourite breakfast was still corn flakes! Granny Bunny and Granny Areeb lived in a mansion by the trees at the bottom of their garden, the ones at the edge of the Deep Deep Forest. But the trees, the tress hold a secret! They turn into slowly creeping MONSTERS when the Grannies are not looking! The Castlemilk Hub pals dressed up with terrific gusto! They strutted their stuff about and made themselves into mysterious looking trees that turned into monsters when the intrepid Grannies were busy cooking breakfast…We had the Desire Bush and the Pemi Tree, the Ife, Nicola and Michelle Trees were mysterious and funny! The Catherine and Freya [...]

Find out what the Castlemilk group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales!  Blog posts are written by TAZ! Week 1 of Castlemilk Porridge & Play!! Wednesday 9th March The cheers were so loud I bet you everyone could hear it across Castlemilk! We opened the Castlemilk Porridge & Play hub on Wednesday 9th March and let me tell you, we had a fabulous turn out. 10 families from Castlemilk got together at Castlemilk Community Center to eat, hang out and play together. We have a lovely big room at the centre with big windows and plenty of space to set up a big table for all to sit and tuck into some delicious fruit and a homemade vegetable soup with fresh bread! All while having a catch up and getting to know each other. Circles are great to see everyone and for everyone to see you! Our Castlemilk circle sure was big on our first session together! We had Anita, Ameerah, Amina, Sarim, Areeb, Huma, Eshal, Ayra, Ife, Fiire, Pemi, Desire, Baby Timmy, Emma, Jared, Levi, Caroline, Summer, Catherine, Freya, Amira, Arwa, Hadir, Marwah, Aryam, Ibrahim, Sayeda, & Abu! Plus our fantastic Storyplay Champions Nicole & Michelle who made everyone [...]