To the rescue we go!!!!!!!

can she fix it? Imogen the builder, YES she can…

These little ones worked VERY closely with Imogen to create a den whilst outside recently. You can tell by the looks on their faces that they were enjoying some great discussions and negotiation together as they manipulated the poles to build and create!!

Team Jollies play a key role in helping our children utilise the outdoor environment to develop and extend their knowledge, skills, language and understanding on a HUGE and exciting scale!! Xxxx

What’s better than putting your physical skills to the test having fun on the seesaw?

…. Doing it with your sister!!!! We are one BIG Jolly Family here at nursery, but when you’re playing outside and can get together with your actual family then it’s even more wonderful!!

With brothers and sisters we adore, spending time going up and down and round and round on the seesaw…. Life doesn’t get more perfect here at Jollies xxxx

Possums’ problem-solving skills were put to the test recently when our little giraffes explored two different resources to help develop and explore them (and help develop their resilience too as they tried and tried again after a quick tweak of their movement or chosen tactics!!)

The spiral ring stacker helped develop their hand/eye coordination and focus as the children had to place the rings on the top of the stick and they would then spin all the way down to the bottom in a VERY satisfying style….

The second one was a little more tricky as the children had to try and figure out how to get the pieces out from inside the box.

Different strategies were employed and trialled and our children were VERY determined to complete their missions!

What clever little people we have here at Jollies who learn through their play in the best possible way… bring on the fun!!!! xxxx

A HUGE thank you to Team Jollies who gave up some of their very precious Saturday to do/renew their Paediatric First Aid. They’d already completed the online element of the course, but today they got stuck in with the assistance of our two lovely trainers from Tigerlily Training to complete the practical side.

It was great to get together and refresh our knowledge, understanding and skills although we really hope never to have to put them into use aside from dealing with the usual bumps and grazes that are part and parcel of little ones’ everyday lives….

Thank you Team Jollies for being you and for your dedication and hopefully we’ll all be ‘stronger together’ should first aid situations arise as we can support and guide each other.

Let’s hope it can all stay as theory that we never have to put into practice, but today’s training should give us the understanding we need to be effective first aiders should there be a need…

Go Team!!!! xxxx

Jollies is a hive of activity this morning as these little snapshots into nursery life show….

All our children are engaged within their rooms being busy, busy, busy…. For some of our youngest ones it’s time for a snooze, but for the others it’s time to get stuck in and explore and learn through their play.

We are so proud of our children and how they have settled in so brilliantly this week after being off for Christmas… It has been wonderful to see them all so happy to be reunited with their friends and Jolly grownups here at nursery….

It’s brilliant to be with our own wonderful families, but also great to be enveloped in the warmth, love and craziness that is our Jolly Family too (and we think we all needed the return to some kind of routine after never knowing which day it was for a week and a half!! ) xxxx

Some amazing counting from our children, but the funniest thing was to observe them howling with laughter when Mr (Stephen) Wolf declared it was indeed ‘dinner time’!!!!! Boy did they all run fast!!!! xxxx

It was a beautiful, bright, but VERY chilly morning this morning and the weather outside inspired the invitations to play inside… xxxx

What a lovely surprise this was to receive this morning from my youngest daughter, Eloise.

She bought him on her recent trip to Brighton as she knew it was Jollies’ BIG birthday coming up (she was born two weeks after we opened so it’s also soon to be a BIG birthday for her too!!)

Eloise knows how much love, heart and soul goes into Jollies from Sian, James, myself and the whole team so it was so touching that she wished us a Happy 21st Birthday with this very precious gift…. He will join all the other amazing giraffes bought by our children and their families over the years and we want to wish everyone a Jolly Happy 21st Birthday and thank every single one of our staff team members, our children and their families past and present for being part of our Jolly Family.

Look out for a celebratory get together later in the year as we had to postpone our 20th celebration due to crazy busyness and ill health so we are hoping to get together with Jollies past and present later in the year as we turn 21!!!!! Thank you all for being part of our journey xxxxx

It’s the return of the ramp and wow have Free-Flow missed it!!! They got super creative with it too… They used themselves, the table and the chairs to create different angles for the slopes…

Once they realised they could set the cars off from both sides and make them CRASH in the middle, it was all over!! Everyone absolutely fell about laughing and they all loved it so very much…. xxxx