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Little Chefs!!
Emily observed these little chefs cooking up lots of crazy creations in our role play kitchen and then serving them up with the biggest of smiles!! One little one tucked into a lettuce, peas and egg sandwich…. Much to her friend’s delight! xxxx
Number Blocks…
literally!! Maths in the early years should be fun, hands on, extremely active and linked to our children’s interests!! So the mini ‘Number Blocks’ characters led to some fabulous building with huge wooden blocks in our Jolly garden. Our children focused upon the markings/spots on each panel to ensure the number of them matched their …
Patience and resilience comes in all shapes and sizes
(…..and loops!!!) Free-Flow have once again been asked to have the car track out as it is such a firm favourite with our children and we love to feed their passions and interests! This morning our children have been exploring loop-the-loops! So far they’ve managed through some great collaborative teamwork and turn-taking to get past …
Process not product!
It’s the process that’s important, not the product! ……. But Exploring Elephants’ recent exploration of paints, brushes and mark-making tools led to a rather impressive masterpiece…. So the final product became the backing paper for one of their room’s new display boards!! Their exploration ended up leading to an exciting enhancement to their environment!! xxxx
Decisions, decisions….
Will your imagination flutter away with the fairies as you visit their magical gardens? Will you find your loudest voice as you have a ROARSOME time with our stomping dinosaurs? Will you dig, dump and roll until your heart’s content on our Jolly construction site? Or will you sniff out the perfect smells to add …
More room renovations!
Over the weekend even more beautiful spaces were created at Jollies so that this week invitations to play would be plentiful helping our children to soon become distracted if they should feel emotional starting in, or moving to, a new room… This, combined with the empathy, love, care, snuggles and understanding provided by the Jolly …
They came……. They partied!!!!!!
Some more fun from our 2025 Reception Class School Leavers Party last week……. We wish all our children the very best of luck as they begin their school journeys this week and next and we look forward to first day uniform photos being emailed in/uploaded on the app/being posted in our closed group so we …
Our Class of 2025
With roots to grow and wings to fly You’re guaranteed to reach the sky But although school is calling At Jollies we are stalling… We don’t want to let you all go quite yet The thought of this makes us all upset! You have been an awesomely amazing bunch Quite honestly, we have to tell …