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 2 of Castlemilk Porridge & Play!! Wednesday 16th March In a Haunted House with cobwebs, and maybe even some spiders but no ghosts, lived three Grannies: Granny Arwa, Granny Hadir and Granny Mosaab. Granny Summer was just visiting. Grannies Emma, Levi and Jared lived in a tree house and in their garden they grew all types of veg and in their orchard they had bananas and strawberries and even blueberries. However their favourite breakfast was still corn flakes! Granny Bunny and Granny Areeb lived in a mansion by the trees at the bottom of their garden, the ones at the edge of the Deep Deep Forest. But the trees, the tress hold a secret! They turn into slowly creeping MONSTERS when the Grannies are not looking! The Castlemilk Hub pals dressed up with terrific gusto! They strutted their stuff about and made themselves into mysterious looking trees that turned into monsters when the intrepid Grannies were busy cooking breakfast…We had the Desire Bush and the Pemi Tree, the Ife, Nicola and Michelle Trees were mysterious and funny! The Catherine and Freya [...]

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 1 of Castlemilk Porridge & Play!! Wednesday 9th March The cheers were so loud I bet you everyone could hear it across Castlemilk! We opened the Castlemilk Porridge & Play hub on Wednesday 9th March and let me tell you, we had a fabulous turn out. 10 families from Castlemilk got together at Castlemilk Community Center to eat, hang out and play together. We have a lovely big room at the centre with big windows and plenty of space to set up a big table for all to sit and tuck into some delicious fruit and a homemade vegetable soup with fresh bread! All while having a catch up and getting to know each other. Circles are great to see everyone and for everyone to see you! Our Castlemilk circle sure was big on our first session together! We had Anita, Ameerah, Amina, Sarim, Areeb, Huma, Eshal, Ayra, Ife, Fiire, Pemi, Desire, Baby Timmy, Emma, Jared, Levi, Caroline, Summer, Catherine, Freya, Amira, Arwa, Hadir, Marwah, Aryam, Ibrahim, Sayeda, & Abu! Plus our fantastic Storyplay Champions Nicole & Michelle who made everyone [...]

find out about the brilliant time we had launching Porridge & Play Castlemilk! Porridge & Play Castlemilk launch! ‘I loved playing and meeting new friends!’ was what one of our Castlemilk children had to say about our launch on Tuesday 8th February. Licketyspit got together with our local Storyplay Champions at  Castlemilk Parish Church to host the launch of Porridge & Play Castlemilk. It was so much fun to come together with from Castlemilk and around the world for our New Scots Integration Project. A part of Porridge & Play is coming together and eating together to build connections and get to know one another. Castlemilk Parish Church was such a wonderful space to do this in with their community based kitchen. It was perfect for us to make our homemade vegetable soup and to prepare lots of fun fruits so that we could have plenty of fuel for our play session! After fuelling our bodies we got together in a circle. We LOVE circles at Licketyspit as circles mean that everyone can see you and you can see everyone. Circles mean everyone is part of the game and as we know games are best played when everyone is playing! In our circle we got to be a BIG as a BEAR and met lots of amazing Funky Chicken animals! On our Flying Balloons we got to explore Glasgow and all the [...]