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BUSY! BUSY! BUSY!

From planning, building, measuring and constructing under the canopy, followed by sharing stories together in the book nook, to testing out our physical skills on all the equipment in the playground…. Our children have simply had it all going on during their outdoor play today!!! xxxx

Construction Cabin!!

Sian has been busy adding the finishing touches to our construction cabin… What a wonderful space and wow, wow, wow what an invitation to play it ever we’ve seen one… Our vision for a much improved outdoor space is coming together. It needed resurfacing and our fixed climbing frame was slowly falling apart, so this …

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Happy Purple Day!!!!!!

It’s fifteen years since Natalie (our very lovely Nat Nat) lost her dad and St Gemma’s were wonderful and supported the whole family through a devastating time. So to make her Dad proud and to say thank you to St Gemma’s Natalie has organised a purple day today here at Jollies. Thank you to the …

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Storytelling Session

A HUGE thank you to our lovely friends from the new MHA group for today’s ‘Acorn and Oaks Story telling session’ held up at The Two Pointers. It was lovely to meet you all and share the lovely stories and story sacks. We love a natter and we books so it was the perfect combo!!! …

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Memory Cafe

A HUGE thank you to the group of children who visited the Memory Cafe up at the Two Pointers today for their patience, their great chatter and their brilliant listening ears!! They did us all proud as there was a little delay at the cafe today with the pancakes for the ladies and gents and …

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Vrooooom, vrooooom…….

Combining paint with cars was the perfect combination for Exploring Elephants today…. They whizzed their vehicles through the different coloured paint to create track marks of their cars differing journeys! There were extra challenges involved as tinfoil boulders were obstacles that needed to be navigated!! Early years play combines so many areas of learning and …

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Pancake Day

Then… as if today wasn’t exciting enough…. We then had pancakes for our tea as it’s Pancake Day!! After sharing stories about making pancakes and role-playing creating our own pancakes we got to experience the real deal thanks to our ‘Pancake Queen’, Sian, who made them for everyone’s tea…. We had both savoury and sweet …

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Chinese New Year

What a wonderful day we have had here at Jollies celebrating and finding out about Chinese New Year…. We have explored the traditions that surround this very exciting time of year and we have enjoyed James’ yummy sweet and sour chicken at lunchtime complete with pancake rolls and prawn crackers and we even had a …

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Jolly family

We have ed being with our friends this week at nursery, but we also the weekend and we our families, so we are hoping for the perfect weekend filled with love and loveliness for everyone within our whole Jolly Family!!! Happy Valentine’s weekend one and all xxxxxxxxxx

Be my valentine!

We Team Jollies…. Sian and I got a little Valentine’s treat for our team to remind them that we love them all and are grateful for everything they bring to our Jolly Family… Wishing everyone lots of love and happiness, not just this month but always!!!! Xxxx (We know the way to their hearts is …

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