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Storyplay For The Planet with Bellrock Nursery

2022-01-10T17:31:00+00:00

Welcome to the Storyplay For The Planet blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had! Get in touch to find out how to join. We went to Bellrock Nursery on Friday 3rd December for the first session of our Storyplay for the Planet!  Everyone was ready to get stuck in and play all the games with us, many having learnt some of the games from their teacher, Storyplay Champion Josephine. Our extraordinary 3-5 year-olds were quickly warmed up with Big As A Bear, exploring some incredible wildlife creates and becoming expressive characters. It was such a riot with lots of laughter! It quickly became a favourite game for some. We then had a round of Funky Chicken, where we met Reise and Gracie's Spotty Giraffe, the Brown & White Dog, Mini Dog, the Dancing Hippo from our excellent teacher Josephine, the Silly Bunny and the Happy Sheep! We then played Flying Balloons. We saw a tiny door below us and Reise saw Santa coming out of the door! Harlow saw Santa leaving on his sleigh and Sarah saw her Mum. We then saw the sea...and flew down and swam in it!  We saw lots of fish, sharks and piranas. We surfed and swam! Several children turned into sharks who we fed [...]

Storyplay For The Planet with Bellrock Nursery2022-01-10T17:31:00+00:00

Storyplay For The Planet on Zoom!!

2022-08-18T16:01:16+00:00

Welcome to the Storyplay For The Planet blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had! Get in touch to find out how to join. We met together on the 19th of November on zoom to have your say through play about our planet! We hosted a Storyplay session on zoom to talk all about our planet with some new and old friends! It was so much fun getting to learn and explore together. We got to become experts are recycling and looking after our planet was well as learning about lots of different animals! We saw a shark 🦈 and a wobbly fish 🐠 and some bees 🐝! All of these animals are super important for our environment, each having their own unique role to play! We talked about how we could save them and make sure their world was nice and clean! How could we look after our planet? ♻️ ‘ We could maybe use less plastic,’ – Miracle ♻️ ‘We could stop making lots of smoke,’ – Praise ♻️ ‘ We should plant more trees,’ – Ameerah ♻️ ‘We can recycle,’ – Muhammad We talked about COP26 and how it came to Glasgow. The children were very excited to share all they had learned about plastics in our waters and how we can all work together [...]

Storyplay For The Planet on Zoom!!2022-08-18T16:01:16+00:00

Women’s Aid Storyplay

2022-04-27T13:09:41+00:00

Licketyspit and Scottish Women’s Aid are working together to deliver Womens Aid Storyplay Scotland - an in-depth training programme for Women's Aid Workers in Licketyspit's Storyplay approach. Storyplay offers a children’s rights-based approach to social interaction and relationship building through structured, joyful, imaginary play. Through this training programme it will become an additional approach workers can use in their work with mothers, children and young people recovering from domestic abuse. The programme includes Theoretical and practical training led by Licketyspit’s Artistic Director Virginia Radcliffe, alongside skilled Licketyspit Lead-Actor-Pedagogues Itxaso Moreno and Iona Zajac. It also includes supported delivery sessions where workers will co-deliver Storyplay sessions with their clients, with close support from Licketyspit. Workers will learn to facilitate a wide range of Storyplay activities, including group imaginary play, games, rhymes, songs and reflective drawing, for group work with children and mothers, together or separately. Evaluations of the Storyplay approach demonstrate that this is an empowering approach for participants and workers . Storyplay demonstrates  a consistently high impact on children and adults’ confidence, social skills, emotional literacy and resilience, and use & knowledge of language and introduces a rich way of playing that mothers and children can build into their lives. Licketyspit and Scottish Women's Aid hope this programme will nurture creativity, confidence, relationships, confident parenting, physical and mental wellbeing, resilience, love and happiness. Blogs [...]

Women’s Aid Storyplay2022-04-27T13:09:41+00:00

Storyplay for the Planet

2022-04-12T09:09:01+00:00

Our East Centre Ward Residency Storyplay for the Planet is a series of Storyplay & Have Your Say Through Play sessions for families with 3-12 year olds in Glasgow's East Centre Ward (Cranhill, Riddle, Carntyne, Springboig & Barlanark) Licketyspit is delivering sessions in schools, nurseries and online for communities across the ward to support confidence, parental engagement, relationships and children’s rights. The school groups will receive an introductory Storyplay session, followed by a Have your Say Through Play session to support the children to express their thoughts, feelings & ideas about Climate Change using imaginary play. These sessions will be a chance for families to explore the issue of climate change and share their feelings about it creatively, elevating children’s voices and demonstrating the power of imagination to find solutions to the greatest collective challenge of our time! The project is part of the Glasgow Life Artist in Residency Programme. There are also some online Storyplay for the Planet sessions supported by Bloomberg to feed into the Create4Glasgow campaign. More on that project here. And some in-person sessions in Cranhill Park & Barlanark Park. This project has now ended, to find out what's happening now, click here. Or to join our Children & Families Network to hear first about all our upcoming sessions, click here. Read the Blogs! Read the Zine This [...]

Storyplay for the Planet2022-04-12T09:09:01+00:00

Storyplay For The Planet with Cranhill Primary!!

2021-11-24T16:34:01+00:00

Welcome to the Storyplay For The Planet blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had! Get in touch to find out how to join. We went to Cranhill Primary on Friday 12th November for the first session of our Storyplay for the Planet!  We got to meet loads of wonderful children and their grown ups! As well as some of the fantastic teachers at the school that let us come and play with them! In this session we started out by being as BIG as a BEAR! Which meant we got to meet loads of animal friends that live on our planet. Then we got to know the Funky Chicken! All the children and grown ups got to show us their animal. Which included a sleepy elephant 🐘  and a snappy snake 🐍 We got to sing about Grandma and then blow up our balloons and travel all over the WORLD! What a great adventure it was! 'I loved that when I was thinking of things to see below all the ideas were so amazing and I realised we could make up anything at all!' Headteacher Flying Balloons We started off by exploring in our sock and you'll never guess what we found?! Why, we found a balloon! But, not just [...]

Storyplay For The Planet with Cranhill Primary!!2021-11-24T16:34:01+00:00

Storyplay for the Planet

2021-11-09T10:57:08+00:00

Licketyspit wants to spark a children’s rights-based play revolution! Storyplay for the Planet is part of our wider work in Glasgow, the first Storyplay City! See Big Porridge & Play and Storyplay City to find out what else we're doing nearby. What is Storyplay for the Planet? A series of Storyplay & Have Your Say Through Play sessions for families with 3-12 year olds in East Centre Ward. Licketyspit will deliver sessions in schools, nurseries and online for communities across the East Centre Ward to support confidence, parental engagement, relationships and children’s rights. The school groups will receive an introductory Storyplay session, followed by a Have your Say Through Play session to support the children to express their thoughts, feelings & ideas about Climate Change using imaginary play. These sessions will be a chance for families to explore the issue of climate change and share their feelings about it creatively, elevating children's voices and demonstrating the power of imagination to find solutions to the greatest collective challenge of our time! We might encounter melting polar ice, or deforestation in Brazil, put a stop to heavy traffic in Cranhill or plant trees in Barlanark. The adventure will present challenges and as a group we’ll overcome them using the power of our collective imagination! We might end up in a river clogged with rubbish, or slipping [...]

Storyplay for the Planet2021-11-09T10:57:08+00:00

Women’s Aid Storyplay Scotland

2022-04-27T13:10:47+00:00

29th September 2021 Licketyspit and Scottish Women’s Aid are excited to offer a free place on to our upcoming Storyplay training course to member Women’s Aid groups across Scotland. Following a very successful introductory session in February, Women’s Aid Storyplay Scotland will provide in-depth Storyplay training to Women’s Aid Workers to use Storyplay as an additional approach in their work with mothers, children and young people recovering from domestic abuse. Storyplay offers a children’s rights-based approach to social interaction and relationship building through structured, joyful, imaginary play. This highly developed, tried and tested approach and toolkit will support workers to work with mothers and children together, nurturing creativity, confidence, relationships, confident parenting, physical and mental wellbeing, resilience, love and happiness. Training will be led by Licketyspit’s Artistic Director Virginia Radcliffe, alongside skilled Licketyspit Lead-Actor-Pedagogues who will train you and support you in sessions with your clients. Evaluations of the Storyplay approach demonstrate that this is an empowering approach for participants and workers . Storyplay demonstrates  a consistently high impact on children and adults’ confidence, social skills, emotional literacy and resilience, and use & knowledge of language and introduces a rich way of playing that mothers and children can build into their lives. Workers will learn to facilitate a wide range of Storyplay activities, including group imaginary play, games, rhymes, songs and reflective drawing. You will also be supported [...]

Women’s Aid Storyplay Scotland2022-04-27T13:10:47+00:00

Storyplay City is Back!

2021-09-22T11:43:03+00:00

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. Magic Brews at Witches Convention Wolves, Mermaids, Sharks  more than I can mention! Read on to find out what where we've been The tales we've heard and the things we've seen... The Magic Bee Hive 11.09.22 This Bee House, this Bee Hive is magic, you know? Just have a wee taste of this honeycomb delicious and juicy and sweet and sticky just take a wee drop and you might feel so lucky  Buzzzzzz   Buzzzzzzz      Can you hear us?  We are BUZZING! We are now Honey Bees and our flight is so dazzling! We make lovely patterns high up in the air, We explore all the flowers, the trees and the heather! And thanks to the Transformer sweet that we had we are now back to Humans for some sliding fun! Look how huge and high this enormous chute is! If you get stuck …  we will help you up … you will feel so brave … as if you could fly … Now here at the top we must flex and twist get our bodies ready for the exciting WHEEEEEEEEE! Can you [...]

Storyplay City is Back!2021-09-22T11:43:03+00:00

Storyplay City

2021-05-10T16:40:59+00:00

We're starting a play revolution in Glasgow! Everyone, of all ages, loves to play! Play is at the essence of being human. When we play imaginatively with other people there are no limits and no mistakes, just endless possibilities. Licketyspit and our children, families and colleagues have got a recipe and a list of ingredients that make imaginary play an easy, wonderful and inclusive part of every day. We call this Storyplay. Licketyspit has been developing the Storyplay approach with Glasgow families for over 15 years. From LicketyLeap sessions in nurseries to Storyplay Schools programmes in primaries, to Porridge & Play in the community and Picnic & Play in museums and parks. From 2020-2022, Glasgow City Council's Community Fund is supporting us to build on our work to make Glasgow the first Storyplay City! Storyplay Sessions In Storyplay City sessions, we play using the Lickety Playcards – old and new hilarious games that give people a licence to be creative and inventive together. Children are at the centre of this play – they are the play experts – supported by fearless Licketyspit actor-pedagogues and Play Champion volunteers. See more on the impact of these sessions, below. Big groups of families meet (currently on Zoom) to sing, dance, rhyme, joke, go on imaginary adventures and make friends. Thanks to Glasgow Council, Bemis and the Scottish Government, we are able to run 3 weekly [...]

Storyplay City2021-05-10T16:40:59+00:00

Storyplay Training

2021-06-08T09:24:02+00:00

More and more Children’s services are recognising the importance of play for learning and wellbeing, especially as we begin to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. Play is how we learn and grow and build strong relationships. When we are in touch with our playful self we can be relaxed and at our most open - to other people, to new experiences and to new ideas. We can be anyone, do anything, go anywhere! We can adventure! We can be brave! Children are of course the world’s play experts. As adults, we need children and what they show us about humanity as much as children need us. We too need to play! Increasingly, research is showing the value of children playing with adults in bringing added dimensions to children’s play and developing their skills and understanding of ways they can play together – fairly, equally and richly. At Licketyspit, we agree with Vygotsky that there is no reason not to tell or show children things because this assumes a child’s learning is finite. Children are going somewhere we cannot even imagine. So, it’s fine for adults to support children’s play, creating a safe and equal space where they can join in and share their imaginings, skills and ideas. Children will simply take what they want from us. The crucial word here is equal. An equal play space where the adult [...]

Storyplay Training2021-06-08T09:24:02+00:00

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