There are still tweaks to be made and rooms will continue to grow and change as children’s interests continue to be followed, but what beautiful spaces Team Jollies have created for their new children today… we love an enabling learning environment and a wonderful invitation to play and Team Jollies are the masters of creating …
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Our Jolly Class of 2024
The time has now come to say a final goodbye As you leave our Jolly nest ready to fly, fly, fly! Before you go we have a few things to share with you all Thank you all for our time together… it’s been a ball! We’ve watched you grow from babies into who you are …
Our ‘Summer Celebration’ in the sun!
The biggest thank you goes out to everyone who came this evening to our 2024 Summer Celebration…. We hope you enjoyed looking through your little ones’ Memories Books and chatting to each other and Team Jollies too. We hope you enjoyed your Pimms/juice and biscuits and we were soooooo lucky with the weather (please keep …
Best….. Ball Pool…. EVER!!!!
Sometimes a regular sized ball pool just doesn’t make the cut!!! Cheeky Monkeys were OBSESSED with balls; so after investigating rolling them along drainpipes, fitting them through tubes (some whizzed through and some were too large!), balancing them on cones, sorting them into groups according to colour, counting them into piles, exploring different textured ones …
Postcard crazy!!!!
We are still OBSESSED with holidays and some of the children were talking about postcards and some have even sent them to their friends back at Jollies from their travels. So Imogen created an exciting writing/mark-making opportunity derived from their experiences when she gave her children the opportunity to create their very own holiday postcards…. …
We are VERY interested…
After their sleep recently, once everybody had woken up, Natalie’s children all spontaneously decided to observe the outdoor environment as the whole room ended up looking out into the world outside their window! One little one stopping to pause and reflect and then reacting to what they could see outside led to all their friends …
Listening to the challenge set…
Stephen observed recently that some of their children could be a bit up and down with their listening skills and they could get quite distracted at times…. So to focus in upon this area more and develop these skills and have a positive impact upon their learning and development he invented a new game involving …
We’re all going on our Jolly holidays!!!
Not that our children are obsessed or anything!! The talk has all been about holidays in Free-Flow recently, either ones that have been taken, or ones that are upcoming… So passports were found, suitcases packed and the runway prepared as our first Jolly flights began to take off…… Such excitement, imagination and creativity!! We love …