Wednesday 11th March 2020 Blog by Taz: I met the P3 class this morning for the first time. A lively lovely bunch! Even though they hadn’t met me before they were kind and welcoming. We had a good warm-up that everyone seem to enjoy and we got on with playing! Funky Chicken was a fun surprise as many of the children offered fantastic animals: a cheeky cat, a nice fish, an angry alligator, a crazy dolphin... We took a big old trip on our balloons over Europe and then further across the world and after that had another rendition of ‘Grandma, Grandma’. Today we’ve learned a new tune called ‘Miss Mary Mac’ which was a hit with P3 as they really enjoyed singing and doing the actions to Mary Mac’s story! Everyone dressed up with gusto and somehow we ended at the mercy of a pirate Captain called Captain Potato on a pirate ship... After being ordered about but Potato and a few of different Captains Virginia led us through a wee relaxation that opened our imaginations to the creation of characters about to attend a fabulous party! Upon arrival to the party we introduce ourselves to each other. There were grandmas and witches, mermaids, robbers, the king of pineapples, the king of animals, the king of ninjas...all sorts!. We then had our very own individual entrance to the [...]

Monday 2nd March 2020 We had another brilliant session of STORYPLAY with the Primary 4's this week at Miltonbank! Everyone was full of energy, excitement and creativity which was reflected in fantastic dressing up and the amazing drawings that followed! Everyone remembered lots of the warm up and joined in loudly, which really got our bodies and minds ready to go! Lots of great animals were thought of in Funky Chicken, such as the 'squeaking guinea pig' and the 'silly dog!' We flew high above the world in balloons, seeing mountains and rain-forests and even as far as the milky way and meteors! The most exciting part of this session was when we went into the Magic Ball... We landed in the North Pole and it was absolutely freezing cold! Luckily Leah had a huge tent for everyone so we all helped to put it up and managed to quickly get warm inside by lighting a fire and putting on extra layers. There was lots of space for everyone to huddle round the fire so we handed out marshmallows and fish and had a BBQ, it was really delicious! We then went on a walk out into the arctic where Rudolph appeared! He was very excited to see us and was extremely excited to drive us on his hovering spaceship car to try and find Santa! Santa (Kyle) gave us [...]

Monday 2nd March 2020 P3 had their first STORYPLAY session with us on Monday with Mr Lindsay, Jack, & Virginia. We were BIG as a BEAR and FAST as a HARE! We did the FUNKY CHICKEN and the NICE CAT and lots of great funny animals! We flew high in our Balloons over Glasgow and the world! We did Grandma Grandma sick in bed and then we dressed up – spectacularly! We played Witches Fingers - and Mr Lindsay was an extremely scary witch! And Monsters Footsteps! We had some great Grannies! Then we climbed into the Magic Ball and went to the moon where we met a sad Moon Creature and sang Happy Birthday and gave him some cake to cheer him up! Then we jumped into a crater and fell down into Kenya! We rode on camels, horses and elephants to the beautiful sea to swim! You can find out more about the Lickety Playcards and how they support learning and health and wellbeing here. We had a great Lickety Art Gallery! You can read some of the children's words below and see all the drawings in a P3. album on our Facebook page. Click here to see it! That’s Macy, That’s Lyle, and that’s MiaCara and that’s Mr Lyndsay! That’s me and a Balloon. Saw the school & a dog. This [...]

Monday 2nd March 2020 It was great to meet Primary 4 at Miltonbank for our first STORYPLAY session this week! We had such a great time playing and imagining together!   As we introduced the class to the Funky Chicken we realised several members of the class had already met our animal friends and they were quick to welcome some exciting new animals to us! James excitedly told us about the Mystery Dog who went ‘who let the dogs out, woof woof woof woof !' and Aderyn said hello to the Cheeky Guinea Pig!   We flew high in our Flying Balloons for the first time and were delighted with how excited and full of ideas the class were. We were also impressed with how observant they were in recalling back what they were seeing and how small they were from way up high – “Our primary school looks so small it looks like a raisin!” We waved hello to Chantelle’s family and watched an elephant walking in the Sahara desert!  The class demonstrated just how creative they are with some truly brilliant dressing up! Benjamin managed to fit 5 different hats on his head! There were some great uses of clothing in some very un-traditional ways and lots of the class drew before and after pictures in the Licketyspit Art Gallery!   We also took a brilliant trip in the Magic Ball – which if you remember you can [...]

Monday 2nd March 2020 On Monday afternoon we welcomed the P7/6s to their first STORYPLAY session with us! Virginia told the class all about the importance of play and how beneficial it is to let yourself go and throw yourself into the session and we certainly had that from this class.   We all made ourselves as thin as a pin and as strong as a giant and we felt suitably warmed up for the session.   Sean introduced us to the Mad Dog in the Funky Chicken and Ahmed brilliantly showed us his Crunching Aligator – we look forward to hearing more animal suggestions in our next session…  We flew high above Glasgow in Flying Balloons and managed to fly in and then out of Area 51 before we alerted the authorities, we managed to grab a drink in Irn Bru land and then we flew high above Pakistan. What a trip we went on, travelling all over the world! We sang Grandma Grandma and we met some more Grannies in Monsters Footsteps! This was a very popular game with this group and following some excellent dressing up we weren’t disappointed! We had some stylish businessmen - Liam, Joel, Ahmed and looked very sharp, some unique hat wearing from Wiktor and Callum and a brilliant Alien monster from Kerrie!   We are excited for our next session with the P7/6s and we’re especially looking forward to more fantastic dressing [...]