Find out what the Bridgeton 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 André! Week 1 of Bridgeton Porridge & Play!! Friday 11th March We have had so much fun at our first Porridge and Play Bridgeton session on Friday 11th March at the wonderful Church House where we played all sorts of games outside with our coats and jackets on but not before we had a lovely feast with soup, bread and fruit all around the same table! The session was fun and it was so much fun to meet again with all our families! We really loved seeing all the fantastic grown-ups fully taking part! Seeing Moria take part in Funky Chicken was a real highlight. We sang our rhymes load and proud shouting out Big as a Bear! Right from the start. It was so lovely to see you all again and we can’t wait for even more weeks of fun! Funky Chicken a whole lot of fun where we meet lots of cool animals! It was a pleasure to see adults and children playing together! We loved hearing Sulman say ‘Do you know the Donkey?’ and what an amazingly fun Donkey it [...]

find out about the brilliant time we had launching Porridge & Play in Bridgeton!! Porridge & Play Bridgeton launch! ‘I liked all of the games!’ was what Storyplay Champion Adesayo said when asked about  her favourite part of our Porridge & Play Bridgeton Launch. On Thursday 11th February we were at Church House to launch Porridge & Play Bridgeton! ‘When you arrive and you don’t know anyone but you see the table set out and you end up sitting and interacting with people you don’t know,’ was a highlight for our Storyplay Champion Nicola who  has been a huge help in making this project happen. Porridge & Play is all about coming together to eat and play! Being able to eat together opens up a chance for conversation and there were some great new connections happening between families at our Bridgeton Launch. It was so wonderful to be able to play in the amazing outdoor space that Church House has to offer. It gave us so much space to  fly in our balloons and so much deck to scrub for Pirate Captain Marvellous! William doing the Funky Chicken was brilliant!  And Pirate Captain Alan told us a whole story about his pirate having a fight and putting him into space! ‘He’s fighting an evil pirate and that’s the pirate flying out of here going aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!’ What a wonderful story Alan made by exploring imaginary playworlds with the Licketyspit team. When the [...]