LicketyLeap at Miltonbank – Group 1

2021-06-15T13:45:23+00:00

25th February 2020 Miltonbank’s Storyplay Residency started with LicketyLeap for Primary Two. 19 children in two groups leaped into the story with Margaret & Margaret! We journeyed through the BOG over the SEA into the CAVE and up the MOUNTAIN to find our HEART’S DESIRES! It was an amazing adventure! At the end Margaret & Margaret flew away in their balloon and a bundle of postcards fell down from the sky – they were for us - thanking us all for going with them to the top of the mountain & being such brave explorers! The journey took us 90 minutes so there is a lot to tell! We’re hoping parents & carers can come to school this week to see a film of the journey – under the sea, catching fish in Fishy ladies boat & cooking them! Jumping ashore to find fruit trees, rock pool and animals in a hole in the ground! We scrambled up to the cave, we saw the bear and we flew on a giant bird before jumping across a great chasm to the summit and zooming back down. Now we feel we can do anything! In Storyplay, the only limits are our imagination! You can see all of our Reflective Drawings on Facebook (some below). You can also read some of what the children said and see some photos below! Parents & [...]

LicketyLeap at Miltonbank – Group 12021-06-15T13:45:23+00:00

St Martha’s P3/2 Session 1

2020-02-27T18:54:44+00:00

Tuesday 25th February 2020 We had a fantastic first session of STORYPLAY with Primary 3/2 at St Martha's Primary this week! We introduced our playcard games to a very enthusiastic class! Lots of the children made up their own Funky Chicken animals including and Angry Sheep, a Snapping Dog and a Happy Cow. When we flew high in our balloons we flew so far we could see volcanoes, tigers, monkeys and even some gorillas searching for their food. We all loved getting dressed up and posing for some fantastic photos and then we visited Granny in the forest and Granny Shay told us all about the cheese he grew in his garden outside his big blue castle. Finally in the Magic Ball… We arrived somewhere very hot. It was Africa!! We had to use some fans to cool ourselves down and then we went exploring, we saw tigers, and pythons and then we saw.. a kangaroo! We wondered what the Kangaroo was going all the way in Africa so we followed him, bouncing around until we found a green hill to rest on. We tried to nap but the sun was still so bright so we got up and found a tunnel leading into a cave. Inside the cave we found a huge bird who let us climb on their wings and took as flying out the cave and [...]

St Martha’s P3/2 Session 12020-02-27T18:54:44+00:00

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

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

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

Licketyspit Xmas Round-up 2019

2019-12-23T15:28:03+00:00

20th December Merry Christmas from Licketyspit! Read & download the whole 2019 round-up here! Scroll down to see our 2019 timeline. Timeline 2019 January   New Website Launch Virginia to Philadelphia  for IPAY Conference Storyplay Residency Part 2 at Riverside Primary, Govan   February-March Storyplay Taster Residency at Ibrox Primary, Govan Storyplay Residency Year 3, Part 2 at Oakwood Primary, Easterhouse Storyplay Residency Year 2, Part 2 at  St Mary's Primary, Maryhill April-June  Big Porridge & Play Glasgow Year 3 (+ 3 taster sessions) June Mothersong Pilot July North Edinburgh Arts Summer Play sessions August  Licketyspit moved to our new Glasgow home at Community Central Hall, Maryhill Road! September  Storyplay Residency Year 3 at St Mary's Primary, Maryhill (LicketyLeap, Porridge & Play, Playcard Play) October  Big Porridge & Play Glasgow Year 3 Celebration Picnic & Play 2 at Riverside Museum; Tall Ship; North Edinburgh Arts; Modern Art Gallery Edinburgh   November  Picnic & Play 2 at WHALE Arts CFN Trip with Caravan Project Big Days Out to the Glasgow Film Theatre December CFN Trip to the Panto at Community Central Halls NWRC LicketyTale of Molly Whuppie

Licketyspit Xmas Round-up 20192019-12-23T15:28:03+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

CFN Festive Trips!

2019-12-09T10:59:27+00:00

23rd November 2019 Mary Poppins Cinema Trip with the Caravan Project We had a FAB first ever Children & Families Network trip to the Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) on Saturday to watch Mary Poppins! 22 families from St Marys Primary Storyplay and Wyndford Nursery Storyplay in Maryhill, and from Ruchill Big Porridge & Play and Whiteinch Big Porridge & Play joined us. 🎬BIG thanks to the Caravan Project and the Glasgow Film Theatre for making it happen! If your children go to a Glasgow Primary you can apply for  Glasgow Kidz Card which gives you one free child ticket + one free adult ticket for every child in your family for the Take Two screening at 11.30am every Saturday! Find out more & apply here or by calling 0141 276 0727. We asked... What have you enjoyed most about the Trip? You said.... Watching Mary Poppins again 😊 spending time with my family and meeting new people (Dad) I enjoyed meeting other families and spending time with my kids, seeing the film and not worrying about everyday stresses. (Mum) Enjoying time with my daughter and other families. She was so excited to meet up & socialise with school friends. (Mum) Spending time with kids, friends and other people. (Mum) Getting to go with friends from school (Gran) The film (Mum) Very funny [...]

CFN Festive Trips!2019-12-09T10:59:27+00:00

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