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Memory Cafe
xxxx Today was our first Jolly visit to the Memory Cafe held on a Thursday once a month at The Two Pointers. It was lovely to get out and about in our wider community and start to build some cross generational friendships. We sang some songs together, we shared books, we chatted and completed puzzles …
A little bit of a change around!!
Our super intuitive practitioners love to ‘tune into’ and follow their children’s interests. We love that our parents/carers work in close partnership with us too and let us know what they are currently loving at home too. These observations and conversations have inspired a few additions to the role-play kitchen as our little ones are …
Creative Souls
Exploring Elephants got creative with Latisha last week when they set to to create a huge masterpiece together. The paint was splodged (after much discussion about the colours about to be used) and it was then their mission to spread it about the paper and see what marks they could make and check out which …
You’ve got to roll with it…….
Possums favourite thing to do at the moment seems to be throwing all of the balls out of their ballpool!! So this morning Ellison rolled with this obsession and followed her children’s interests and removed the side of the ball pool allowing the children to totally cover the whole room in balls!!!! This led to …
‘Snow way?!?!?
Was pretty much the reaction all our children had upon discovering our outside area earlier in the week… They loved to wrap up warm and get out and about to explore. This snow involved careful manoeuvring and definitely drew upon core strength, balance and stability, but it was safe to say they love, love, LOVED …
Magnetic fun!
When exploration is the name of the game… Magnets are truly fascinating!!!! xxxx
Jolly Happy Shoppers!!!!
During the first couple of days back after Christmas Natalie observed her children pretending to be shopping together both inside and outside within the role play kitchens, so she decided to follow their interests and create a brand new area within the room to really extend and develop this interest! The children responded so positively …
Happy 20 years to us!!!!!
As we reopen today we want to wish our lovely Jolly Family a very Happy and Healthy New Year and also a BIG Happy Birthday to Jollies as our nursery is now 20 years old!!!! We are proud to have been shaping and supporting hundreds of little superstars by working in close partnership with our …
Walking in a Winter Wonderland
Stephen’s winter wonderland has sparked even further Christmas excitement throughout Jollies, but will we all see any real snow on Christmas Day we wonder?!?! xxxx
Jolly Food Bank
A HUGE thank you everybody for all your kind donations to our Jolly food bank collection… Sian has just dropped off our donation and we hope it will make some people’s Christmases just that little bit brighter Thank you for your kindness everybody xxxx