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

Licketyspit Xmas Round-up 2019

2025-04-02T23:45:35+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 20192025-04-02T23:45:35+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

Licketyspit’s Book Week Scotland Competition

2019-12-03T14:29:24+00:00

3rd December 2019 Congratulations to Licketyspit's Book Week Scotland Competition Winners! To celebrate Book Week Scotland 2019, we invited CFN members to send us a photo of a drawing/painting their child had done, inspired by their favourite book or story. The prizes were copies of our Wee Witches and Molly Whuppie books! You can explore and buy these here. The books are based on our shows - you can see more about all of our shows here. Thanks so much to all the entrants and CONGRATULATIONS to winners Georgina, Duncan and Cassandra! You can see the winning artworks below, inspired by Bumpus Jumpus Dinosaurumpus, Room on the Broom, and Peppa Pig. Good recommendations from the Children & Families Network! Cassandra, 6 Georgina, 5 Duncan, 4

Licketyspit’s Book Week Scotland Competition2019-12-03T14:29:24+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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