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This is maths!!
At Jollies we are championing maths in the early years inspired by our recent whole team staff training led by Fiona our training Maths Champion. We are always looking for opportunities to introduce and explore concepts and expand upon vocabulary and Emma decided that playdough was the perfect medium to do so! Discussions naturally occurred …
Wear it pink day
We are getting ready to think pink on Friday and all look fabulous together!!!! If Friday isn’t your little one’s usual day please just wear pink any time this week…. The box is there to pop a donation in if you’d like to support us in raising awareness and money for this very important cause. …
Leaves are falling….
Autumn’s calling… As we wander up and down the stairs we may be stalling…….. (As there are lots of lovely new autumnal things to spot!!) xxxx
Bright lights and loveliness everywhere!!!
Our newest Jolly babies are getting to grips with exploring our sensory room (with the support of their key person being nearby for any comfort and reassurance required; as this is still a very new space for them all at the moment!). They are loving the lights, the textures, the sounds, the smells, but above …
Oh my…. What’s occurring?!?
It’s out with the old and in with the new as the Jollies great outdoor renovation gets underway…. Exciting times ahead. It’ll be a few days of restricted play for our children, but you can’t make an omelette without cracking eggs, so we think the interruption to usual service will be well worth the wait… …
My new ride!
The ‘people’ have been taming and riding the dinosaurs here at Jollies today… it’s all in a day’s imaginative play for our little ones xxxx
Choo, Choo… BEEEEEP!!!!!
What a wonderful morning Exploring Elephants had together today. Following the children’s current interests Fiona and Tracey took them on an adventure to the train station! The children had been building huge tracks within the room and whizzing lots of trains around them so a natural exciting progression and thing to do was to pop …
Selfie time!
Jade was busy leading an adult-initiated activity for some of her children when this little one spotted that she had put her tablet down on the floor next to her with the camera still open. Jade had been busy snapping photos of her children in action to document their learning as part of our online …
Why have one steering wheel when you can have four?!?!
These resources had been bought to enhance play when amazing vehicles are being created out of chairs, crates and planks, but this little one decided to snaffle them to explore them just as they were. He then spent time investigating how they stacked together and moved them around to form different colour combinations. Then Fiona, …
Moments like these…
Imogen joined some of her children upstairs in their playroom and they had such a fun time sharing lots of stories together… Someone picked ‘The party book’ so that was the first one they shared and together they pretended they were having their very own little party up there. Free Flow was full of giggles …