Porridge & Play Castlemilk is back! Find out what the Castlemilk group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Block 3 is all about YOU! We are getting ready to make our AllScot Playcards which will be inspired by all your games and Stories. The AllScot Playcards will be on display at our Storyplay Festival which will be happening on Saturday September 17th! Find all of Porridge & Play Castlemilk's adventures here! Blog posts are written by Sarah! Block 3 Week 2 of Porridge & Play Castlemilk Wednesday 27th July Such an inspiring and playful session this week! We started off with a funky Dance Warm Up and showed Andre all our cool moves and then we played The Funky Chicken, Arwa showed us how the Weird Dolphin spins round and round! Freya did the Crazy Koala who likes to side-cuddle her Mum! Avery showed us the Dancing Zebra! This week we found out about all the fabulous games the Castlemilk mums played when they were kids. Sayeda taught us a great game that she’d played in Pakistan with her friends. She said we needed to draw a circle with chalk and all of us had to stay in it with one leader protecting everyone, while outside the circle, another player had to try to catch us all. If you are caught, you have to [...]

Porridge & Play Castlemilk is back! Find out what the Castlemilk group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Block 3 is all about YOU! We are getting ready to make our AllScot Playcards which will be inspired by all your games and Stories. The AllScot Playcards will be on display at our Storyplay Festival which will be happening on Saturday September 17th! Find all of Porridge & Play Castlemilk's adventures here! Blog posts are written by Sarah! Block 3 Week 1 of Porridge & Play Castlemilk Wednesday 20th July What a lovely afternoon we had for our first session back at Porridge & Play Castlemilk!! Arwa and Hadir are experts in play and showed us by making themselves as BIG as a BEAR!!! We think we could have some future actor pedagogues! We had a lovely session with some wonderful families and we found out all about each of them! Amira told us how hot it was in Egypt and that she had studied Chemistry at University in Cairo and enjoys cooking a traditional dish called Dolma which has cabbage and rice and lots of herbs. And as a family they love to sing. She said, “We like to go out together as a family, picnics and sing together. It is great to be us because we love to be together.” [...]

Find out all about our Picnic & Plays with the Bridgeton, Castlemilk and Cranhill Hubs! These Blog posts show what we got up to and all the Storyplay-ing we did! Porridge & Play Hubs is running throughout 2022 with this block being the 2nd of our exciting New Scots Integration Project! Thank you to everyone who has partnered with us to provide such amazing experiences for our children & families, and to all our Storyplay Champions!  Picnic & Play at Castlemilk Park!! Wednesday 18th May Magic Map, Magic Map show us the path to CASTLEMILK PARK! Jack’s Magic Map showed us that in fact Emma, Jared & Levi knew the path already and so they took the lead and guided us all from Castlemilk Community Centre to the woods at the heart of Castlemilk Park where we met our new friend, Stuart! It was a lovely afternoon and we merrily walked using Jack’s Magic Map to guide us into the heart of Castlemilk Park. With Jared’s help we were able to find Park Ranger Stuart! Stuart told us to follow him, to be careful with our steps as the woods have bumpy grounds and to keep our eyes and ears at the ready, for the woods do have many creatures and interesting wildlife for everyone to enjoy. Stuart had even set up a wee [...]

Find out what the Castlemilk 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 TAZ! Week 6 of Castlemilk Porridge & Play!! Wednesday 27th April Potato parathas! By Amina Chicken mince kebabs & Chicken spring rolls & Green Chutney! By Sayeda Fruit chaat! By Huma  Chocolate Orange cheesecakes & Banana Loaf! By Emma Baklava! By Amira What a delicious feast we had at our Castlemilk Hub celebration! We wanted to celebrate by all of us getting together on Wednesday to eat & play! We also wanted to tell our Castlemilk pals about all the exciting things coming up for our Picnic & Play sessions. So, we got the bunting up, we blew up some colourful balloons and we sat round a very exciting looking table of new flavours for all of us to try! Everyone enjoyed tasting each other's foods and we even got the recipes for some of the delicious dishes. There was a lot of chat about our upcoming Picnic & Play trips and many, like Pemi, Fire, Ife and Arwa seemed very excited about visiting Troon beach in June. Emma was very [...]

Find out what the Castlemilk 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 TAZ! Week 5 of Castlemilk Porridge & Play!! Wednesday 20th April We are the pirates BOLD! We don’t give a monkeys if it’s COLD! We don’t care if the world is BIG! We don’t give a monkeys & we don’t give a FIG! WE ARE PIRATES! Our motley crew were puzzled when Pirate Andre started to run around screaming with excitement followed by Captain Taz screaming even louder with excitement…  ‘You found it! CREW, do you know what this is?’  ‘A coin!’  ‘A diamond!’  ‘A treasure?’  ‘This, my meanest crew of Pirates, is a MAGIC BALL’  ‘OOOOOOOOHHHH’ Magic Ball! Magic Ball! Take us where we want to go! WOOOOOOSH! Deep in the jungle the crew was mesmerized…what would we find? ‘Is that a tiger?’ Carefully we crawled towards the biggest tiger a Pirate had ever seen! Kevin and Sarim, who are fluent in speaking tiger, worked out that it was very hungry, so we bargained that instead of eating us, Abu & Jared would make the Tiger some toast with jam that Amina had with her! The tiger was so happy that he sent [...]