Teamwork made the dream work as Terrific Twos shared and built together… xxxx

Our children are fascinated to observe the changes occurring in front of their eyes and finding out more about their lifecycle by sharing books with Imogen xxxx

Our light table has been all about the monsters in Elephants this week

Those pesky monsters have been hiding from our little ones and then appearing and travelling all over the place… xxxx

We are loving our construction cabin and its ability to let our imaginations flow through this exciting indoor/outdoor space….

It was collaboration and creative and critical thinking all the the way as our children planned, problem-solved, built and modified their creations… bobbins and reels were turning, but so were the cogs in our children’s minds as they focused upon their magnificent builds and their chosen tasks…. xxxx

Last year it was Tracey’s crazy lampshade tree, but this year Sian has spotted the next tree loveliness for Jollies…

At nursery our entire ethos is centred around our children; including the concept of ‘looking up’ to really consider what it’s like from a child’s perspective.

Our blossom tree is beautiful but once the pink has gone we wanted to ensure we still have interesting!!

So what better way to inspire our children’s imaginations than helping them imagine they are floating high above through the clouds across the sky!

Our children are always going on adventures at Jollies and hopefully these gorgeous balloons will inspire and spark their imaginations even further….

LOOK UP xxxx

So after resurfacing our outdoor area on the other side of the garden and introducing our book nook and construction cabin we now have some new additions to the garden side too!

After looking at our children’s play and assessing their needs we wanted to improve our outdoor area to provide greater access to quality, inspiring and creative outdoor learning in all weathers for ALL children, but especially for our youngest babies

We now have a VERY versatile space that provides much more seamless indoor/outdoor learning and can facilitate greater outdoor play in all weathers where our children can explore and develop their skills further in a very exciting, satisfying way.

We still have work to do… the walls will be being clad inside our new sensory/movement room soon and then we can truly develop this space in a uniquely wonderful manner, as is our Jolly way!!

We have a new outdoor sandpit to be added to our garden and we also want to create a space for growing our own fruit and veggies too, plus sensory and many, many other additions that will soon appear in our mud kitchen area under the canopy as we develop it further, but we are excited about all we have achieved so far!!!

Watch this space… We think our children are going to LOVE it!!!! xxxx

It was rubbish 0 – Jolly Woody Litter Pickers 1 the other morning!!

On Tuesday the Free-Flow gang hit the streets of Woodlesford on the look out for pesky litter!

They were eagle-eyed and pincer-gripped as they wielded their pickers with precision and purpose!!!

We collected it all on our walk to and from the park, with the added bonus of stopping for a play inbetween!!

Tracey crossed the road to drop the special purple bag next to the square bin as the council team will come and collect it on their rounds when they empty the bins next.

We LOVE to be part of our local community and help keep our environment clean and lovely… learning how to care for it is so very important as the future of the world will soon be in our hands xxxx

This year’s parade felt HUGE… we had soooo many lovely mummies, daddies, grandmas, grandads, aunties and uncles join us and we are so grateful they came out to spread cheer to the village as part of our huge Jolly Family

Our children did us proud and it was great to bring Easter joy to our local community as we waved and jingled bells and wished passersby ‘Happy Easter!’ and gathering together with Woodlesford School’s nursery class to sing a few Easter songs together was great. They waved us along our route from the school grounds as we all paraded past.

We also met another fabulous lady along the way who came out to cheer us on but had also decorated her fence and made our oldest children an Easter gift too. The lovely Lisa had lovingly and cleverly decorated a shell for our children and they loved choosing one to take home and I know they will be treasured…. So a HUGE thank you to her for taking the time to make these for our Free-Flow children, it was incredibly kind of her

We paraded on to the park and we gathered in a HUGE circle on the green and sang our Easter songs to each other. Then the Free-Flow children left everyone else to either go for a further walk around or a play on the park whilst they paraded on to Midland House.

At Midland House we loved to be reunited with our friends again and we sang songs together and gave them our Easter hamper and we also handed out mini chocolate eggs and chicks from our baskets.

We had a drink and a cheeky biscuit before heading back to the park for a play. Our lovely friends at Midland House also had a treat for our children as they had a little Easter bag of treats to take home and some stickers for them and Hazel also presented us with £10 to buy something nice for nursery… so our children will be choosing something soon!

Enroute to the park we saw the ‘Woodlesford in Bloom’ volunteers busy planting up pots around the village and we wished them a ‘Happy Easter’ and thanked them for all their hard work in making our village so beautiful. We also told them we’d been out litter picking as we’re trying to do our bit to keep the village beautiful too and they were impressed!

We had a play in the park and enjoyed the lovely weather we’d had this morning before walking down the road back to Jollies.

We were super lucky when we got back as we had a brilliant surprise waiting for us all…. The Easter Bunny had hopped on in whilst nursery was empty and had left us all an egg!! The pesky rabbit had knocked over a pot of paint on the way in, but we didn’t mind as we simply followed his painty footprints to find our chocolatey treat!!! so we soon forgave his messiness!!!!

Thank you everyone for supporting us!! Our children were AMAZING and made us so very proud and we thank Team Jollies, our families, Chicken Megan (who led the parade brilliantly!!), Woodlesford School nursery, our friends at Midland House and everyone else who was part of today’s fun for helping us build this important sense of community… it means a lot to us all. Thank you all for being part of it xxxx

Imogen’s hair isn’t just for Christmas you know!!

She’s looking EGGcellent ready for our 2026 Easter Parade and we are all officially EGGcited!!! xxxx

Our outdoor redevelopment continues and our new flooring got delivered late yesterday afternoon; so our children swung into action and got busy helping Sian and the other very kind and helpful Team Jolly members who volunteered to help move the flooring around from the gate to the other side of our garden.

It was HARD work but our children loved it! They showed perseverance and determination as they went backwards and forwards pushing wheelbarrows and carrying containers and they emptied them out where it needed to go.

This kind of ‘heavy work’ is actually really beneficial for children to be involved in, as it helps them remain calm and focused too, so it was a win/win situation for everyone!!

It’s brilliant when we work as a team to reach a shared goal and it’s also so important for our children to care for our environment and help make it, and keep it, the best it can possibly be… but above all it was SUCH FUN!!! xxxx