At Jollies we like our children to make choices and be as independent as they can be and so we have recently bought some new containers and jugs to increase these skills across the building for even more of our children…. The children got to choose which cereal they wanted for breakfast and they poured …
We love a little wander and despite having a HUGE outdoor area of our own to play outside in daily we also like to venture a little further afield from time to time to explore our local environment and put our physical skills to the test on some different play equipment. Woodlesford park is a …
These two besties were sharing books about babies and making up their own stories; listening VERY intently to each other might we add!! Then in the next moment they were roleplaying babies and looking after each other in the most caring of ways! From sharing books to brilliant caregiving ways…. We love where our friendships …
Some of our oldest children went to the park with Natalie and Eloise and on the way back they grabbed their grabbers and helped keep our village tidy as they litter picked from the park all the way back to Jollies. They found plastic bottles, cans, tissues, cigarette packets and sweet wrappers and we all …
There’s an invitation to play awaiting the Free-Flow pirates this morning…. Will they share a pirate story or two? Will they ensconce their pirates in the best role-play action as their imaginations flow? Will they become immersed in counting and sorting the treasure? Will it be compared in terms of size, colour or shape? Will …
Things are growing in our Jolly Garden…. We can’t wait to watch them grow and change and eventually harvest and eat them!!!! Whoop whoop xxxx
Following our children’s interests is a HUGE part of the ethos of our nursery so it is essential that our children’s key people know them inside out. So when tuned-in grownups hear conversations of camping fun it is only natural that they respond by creating their very own Camp Jolly within the room to enable …
When you spot some magnatiles, have a shared idea and then teamwork, quite simply, makes the dream work!!!! Xxxx
Terrific Twos have got creative today and designed their very own backdrop for the display board in their room…. We like our children to get truly involved!!!!
When the build you create is soooooooo much better than the planning card you originally set out to follow!! We love that our children’s imaginations roam free and they have the confidence to follow their own plans and have such clear ideas that they want to develop…. That’s how a ‘truck with treasure’ comes to …