Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. We are the experts!  Are you really very good at tying your laces? Or, maybe it's making sandwiches? Or, maybe you're great at jumping to the moon and back?! This week we discovered that we were all experts at something - a whole team of experts! One thing that all children are experts at is playing, of course, so for our final Porridge & Play Online of this block we used our skills to dress up as characters that were experts at something, and to use our imaginations - and the Magic Ball - to dream up an amazing adventure... Thursday 20th May 2021 We had a great time with the Thursday gang of experts letting our imaginations run wild by dressing up as characters who were all an expert at something… 🍞 💇 🗺️  Taz became Bill who lives on a hill and is an expert at hopping on one leg and Andre was Phil who lives in a mill and is an expert at making bread. Agyei became Phil who lives down the hill and is an expert at cutting hair! Azzan became [...]

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. Do you know Margaret & Margaret?  Bold Margaret and Worried Margaret are the two main characters of our play – Licketyleap!  Licketyleap is a Licketyspit show where the children leap into the story and go on a fantastic adventure with Margaret and Margaret, all the way through the Bog, over the Sea, into the Cave and up the Mountain to find their Heart’s Desire! As you can imagine all sorts of thing happen during their adventure and Margaret & Margaret and the children realise that we are all a bit like both Margarets: sometimes we are bold and ready for anything and sometimes we get worried about things and that’s OK! Wednesday 12th May 2021 A CAVE! ‘What if it’s dark?’ ‘What if I get cold? A BOG! ‘What if I get stuck in it?’ (Magnus) ‘What if I get lost?’ ‘What if I don’t have any shoes and my socks get all dirty?’ (Fiire) The ZOO! ‘What if the lions eat me!?’ (Osato) 'What if the giraffes lick me!?’ (Lily) This week was all about characteristics! What would a BOLD character look like? What [...]

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. Welcome to the Olympic Games...of Games!! We will WIGGLE, RACE and MIME! Place an egg on your spoon and see if you can reach the finish LINE! Team Licketyspit warmed up their bodies, to compete in the Games of Games; star jumps, press ups, break dancing, all to help us play! The best thing about the Olympic Games of Games is that it's all about playing, so there are no winners or losers. Because when we play we can relax and all the amazing ideas we all have inside can burst out!  We can be anyone, go anywhere, do anything! Saturday 8th May 2021 The Olympic Games…Of GAMES! In space, in a location only reachable by Magic Ball, the most mysterious, wonderful and celebrated floating field awaits the arrival of teams of players from all over the whole wide world… These teams are formed by the most serious, dedicated and committed players who spend many hours of their days throwing themselves into the most hilarious and imaginative games… And today the cheering crowds can hardly contain their excitement at the prospect of witnessing fabulous playing from Team Mary [...]

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. Selkie Broth, Selkie Broth, Steam and Bubble and Froth! 🧜‍♀️ Shirley the Selkie needed a rhyming recipe for her Selkie Broth and all of the wonderful Sea Creatures came to the rescue! Aroush the Silly Whale 🐋 swam around, Junior the Funky Shark 🦈  plucked some lollies from the ground, Keith the Silly Puffer fish made it bubble, and Emma the Silly Seahorse helped us stay out of trouble!   Thursday 22 April 2021 A rather aquatic Thursday gang! Funky Octopus, Snappy Shark, Smart Shark & Funky Dolphin Silly Queen , Sick Penguin & Dancing Dolphin Pinchy Crab, Wobbly Fish & a wee Lost Sardine, Silly Octopus, Laughing Mermaid & Silly Mermaid  All ready to swim and dance and having a big underwater laugh when suddenly… ‘I’m Shirley The Selkie - Half Human Have Seal Is anyone there who will cook with me?’ Selkies are famous for their massive feasts and their Selkie Broth that’s a magic treat! ‘But to make it right you must rhyme all the time!' Shirley The Selkie thought she couldn’t rhyme but with some of our help she was just sublime! [...]

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. Wednesday 21 April 2021 We are back back back we saw Lily, Brown and Osak and met Adesayo’s Jealous Cat! Wohoo! We met new friends, Mighty Magnus and his Crunchy Crocodile, Fareedah the Unicorn who flew up high and Firefunmi who introduced us to the Lazy Dog… woof! 🐶🦄🐊 Do you know the Cow Chicken? Have you ever been to Orkney and flown on the back of an Eagle? 🦅Have you even imagined how beautiful ancient cave paintings are? 🖌️ Well, this all happened in the Wednesday group of Porridge and Play, and what can we say, it’s so wonderful to PLAY! The Magic Ball this week was all about Art Voyages! What’s your favourite art form? Singing, dancing, rapping, painting? We dressed up as EXPLORERS  🥾and jumped inside the Magic Ball! It first took us to a very dark and ancient cave - where we met a bear! 🐻 The bear led us around and when we held our torches up to the walls we saw the most incredible ART! Cows and horses and people, all painted in fantastic colours! Suddenly we all fell down a hole and [...]