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 these!!! Can’t thank you enough you brilliant people!!!! 
Bring on September and new key people bonds being formed and strengthened too xxxx
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 now
You’re resilient and school ready so please take a bow
You should be so proud of all you have achieved
In yourselves and your abilities you’ve totally believed.
We provided the roots for you to grow
And now it’s definitely time to let you go…
Let’s not be sad, but look ahead to your future which is bright
Just carry on being you and you’ll be alright!!
Goodbye AMAZING Jolly Class of 2024
We’ll miss you as you make your final exit through our nursery’s door…
Thank you all for the memories Class of 2024 and thank you to all our mummies and daddies for all your support throughout the years too…. You have all been truly awesome! Thank you for our amazing gifts too, it really means so very much to Team Jollies.
Please keep in touch and don’t forget to email in (or post on our closed group… whichever you’d prefer) a first day of school photo so we can add them looking amazing in their uniforms to our 2024 Leavers Display and we hope you’ll pop back during school holidays in the future so we can see how our Jolly Babies have grown and changed.
They are more than school ready and they are going to be truly awesome as they begin this next exciting chapter…… xxxx
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 your fingers crossed now for the same tomorrow for our 2024 Big School Leavers Party!!)
We are so very grateful to you for your support and just want to thank you again for all being part of our Jolly Family and for taking the time to come out for an hour this evening to celebrate all your little ones’ achievements so far…
Such strong bonds have been made over the past year and our children have loved their key people and we know it won’t be long until they love their next ones just as much… bring on the new rooms and continued learning through play in the best possible way as lots more amazing memories are made together…. Xxxx
Hiding in the tunnel waiting in anticipation for Alice to walk past!! Can you tell which photo is the one where this little one jumped out?! 
Outdoorsy days and tunnelling ways spent giggling together here at Jollies xxxx
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 (from wicker to smooth to spiky!!) there was only one thing left to do to feed their children’s obsession…
Dive into the biggest pool of balls ever!!!!! Then add a slide into the mix and enter the pool in a flurry of balls in true Jolly style!!! xxxx
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….
Together as a group they looked at various postcards from abroad and from local places too and then they designed their own after recollecting exciting places/things they had seen. After ‘writing’ their postcards they went downstairs to post them through our Jolly letterbox…. after ensuring they’d fully glued their huge stamp on of course!!
Jolly posting ways and reminiscing over happy holidays as we spend time together here at Jollies xxxx
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 then being drawn in to looking outside too at all the different vehicles they could see passing by..
Together with Natalie, their closely observing and sensitively responding grown up, they all stood for ages pointing, discussing and waving to all the different cars and vans (and even some dogs!!) that ventured past our Jolly window…
Everyone got VERY excited and they liked to talk to each other about exactly what they could see as things appeared and disappeared…
This was such a simple activity, but one that helped massively in developing their speech, conversation and communication…They even had a little sing along together when they (very excitingly!!) saw a bus; so of course “The wheels on the bus” was then a must!! 
Observing and taking everything in is how we find out all about the wonderful world around us… 
and we are very fortunate at Jollies to have the biggest and best windows possible to enable this to happen and, as all of Team Jollies know, every moment can be a teaching one so jumping on a spontaneous opportunity and following our children’s lead can result in some golden opportunities to further conversation and communication and just generally enable us all to enjoy having a good old chin wag together!! xxxx
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 teamwork, communication, listening, coordination and balancing!!
The children had to get from one hoop to the other, passing crates down the line by coordinating their bodies and collaborating whilst also making sure they didn’t fall on the grass!
At all times the children communicated with each other whilst working as a team and they also listened very carefully to one another too.
The challenge was duly accepted and their listening ears were well and truly switched on and their focus was laser sharp!!
After all, teamwork does indeed make the dream work Xxxx
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 following our children’s interests here at Jollies xxxx
