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Sad times!

Sadly we are continuing to say goodbye to more and more of our very lovely school leaving giraffes… but our hearts smile when we receive heartwarming messages from their families expressing how they’ve simply had a blast!! xxxx “Hello all Jollies staff It’s **** last day at Jollies and **** and I would just like …

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Make Your Mark!!

We love it when our children express themselves as they create their masterpieces. They mark make using soooooo many different types of media; from water to chalk, to digital, to felt-tip!! We love to see the progression as fingers strengthen and grips develop from palmar to pincer and huge movements turn into intricate ones and …

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Amazing masterpieces emerge!

If I use this, what mark will it make? Let’s find out…. xxxx

Adventures on an even bigger scale…

Another week of adventure begins here at nursery, but sometimes our adventures take us outside of Jollies into the wider community as we explore wonderful Woodlesford. Even though we have brilliant equipment to climb, slide and play on here at nursery there’s nothing quite like going on a walk and exploring EVEN BIGGER slides and …

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Will they win?

A prediction of the future?! We certainly hope so as this little one has drawn the Lionesses scoring a goal… here’s to a HUGE win on Sunday and hopefully the World will be coming home!!!! Happy, happy weekend everybody and don’t forget to support the Lionesses on Sunday… COME ON ENGLAND!!!!

Football crazy!!

We’ve been footie crazy today with excitement for our Lionesses bid for World Cup glory on Sunday… From football shaped toast, to football themed snack, to painting and printing footballs and flags, to designing our very own football kits, to playing with gigantic inflatable footballs, to dancing and singing along to lots of football songs… …

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What’s better than being outdoors?

……..Being outdoors with our brilliant friends!! xxxx

Celebrating those milestones…

We love to celebrate all the milestones in our children’s lives with them; from feeding themselves for the first time, creating animal sound effects, saying their very first words, pulling themselves to standing, taking their first nursery steps, climbing up the stairs, whizzing down the slide, counting to 3, 5, 10, 20…100, singing at the …

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Cause and Effect!!

Technology toys give us all the opportunity to explore this concept… When I push this button what happens next? When I tap that part of the touch screen what will I see? When I press the remote control where will the car whizz to? When I choose this option from the tablet’s menu which game …

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Firefighters to the rescue!!

Inside, outside, we just love to role-play EVERYWHERE… our imaginations are truly all we ever need, but when dressing up and props are thrown into the mix too life becomes even more exciting!! xxxx