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 our children to role-play excitedly drawing upon their real life experiences…. Camping days and the best role-playing ways spent together here at Jollies!! 
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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 fruition… 
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From crawling through a tunnel, balancing across crates, climbing up on to equipment, to jumping off as high as we possibly can…. Physical play is crucial for all our children as they learn what their bodies’ capabilities are and strengthen muscles, develop spatial awareness and hone their gross and fine motor skills and control.
Whilst moving, moving, moving pathways are strengthened within the brains and we become even more competent and skilful movers through repetition and development of our skills through play.
This doesn’t even factor in the collaboration, turn-taking, risk-assessing, communication that’s also naturally occurring and there’s often quite a bit of counting thrown in too and mathematical language through talk of how high we’ve jumped etc etc.
Early years play is truly holistic, but above all it is tonnes and tonnes of fun for our little ones!!!! 
After lots of patience, dutiful care, close observation and development of our learning and knowledge our caterpillars have finally emerged from their cocoons as beautiful butterflies!
Our children were super excited to meet their new friends as they sat with Lauren waiting patiently. They all sat so very calmly and they enjoyed observing the butterflies closely as they moved around and gently fluttered their wings.
They had such gentle hands and quiet voices, so as not to scare or hurt them, and they were truly fascinated to get up close and personal (if they wanted to… some children preferred to observe from a distance and that was fine too!) with our butterfly friends.
We have shared in their journey from caterpillar 
to butterfly and it has been nothing short of fascinating!!
They’ll soon be soaring free above Woodlesford and we shall enjoy waving them off as they fly away onto their next adventures!!!!
Watch out for our Jolly butterflies fluttering by!!
That moment when you are so invested in Jesci’s story…. Real peril was felt as the dinosaurs rampaged through the supermarket!!! 
We it when our little ones get so engrossed (and lost!) in a book!! 
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Celebrating 20 years of the very lovely Laura…. Enjoy your two extra holiday days and £500 voucher for a relaxing weekend away
You definitely deserve it!! Thank you for being part of our Jolly Family and supporting soooo many children throughout all this time… we love you!!! Xxxx
Whether it’s the bond between between child and key person, or the bond between friends, strong bonds mean EVERYTHING and make our nursery world go round!!!!
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What a wonderful way to learn about colours, taking turns and sharing, developing our hand/eye coordination, anticipating and responding and exploring mathematical concepts!!
There was much discussion about how many balls may fall/or had fallen… which colours had come out? Were there more of one colour than another? How many were left in the cylinder? Plus many, many, many more conversations!!
We LOVE the early years as learning is natural, connected, holistic and just brilliantly FUN!!!!
