Resilience and determination leads to the puzzle being completed and the proudest of faces being displayed…

We love celebrating our children’s achievements with them here at Jolliesxxxx

What a lovely afternoon Natalie, Stephen and I had taking some of our Free-Flow children up to The Two Pointers to play some games, draw some pictures, sing some songs and have a good old natter!!

We love catching up with them and it is just so lovely to see these cross-generational friendships blossoming.

Afterwards we had a snack of breadsticks and satsumas and a thirst-quenching drink of water. Once refreshed we were ready to have a play on the pub’s new climbing frame…. It would have been rude not to test it out Our verdict: FABULOUS!!!!!

We then headed back to Jollies for some well-deserved tea lovingly prepared for us by James…. Yummy!!! We’ll soon be re-fuelled and ready to play until home time xxxx

When it comes to putting our coats on sometimes we need a little bit of help and that’s okay, but we love that our children give it a good go themselves first (the coat flip trick is simply AWESOME!!!!) and are then confident to ask for help when it is needed

The other day Natalie gave her children the extra challenge of trying to zip their coats up all by themselves too to gain that little bit of extra independence.

Our children were really good at giving this a good try and many could do this totally independently. Even though quite a few couldn’t get the zip in during their first couple of attempts they were determined and didn’t give up and kept trying until… ta-dah!!!!

We love our children’s independence and resilience and even more than this we love to see the look of pride upon their faces when they achieve, achieve, achieve!!!

Nothing but superstars!!!

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 themselves a portion before adding it to their bowls and covering their selected cereal in milk.

The decision over which cereal to choose was quite a dilemma for some first thing on a morning…., but the pouring skills came pretty naturally to most

We love to help our children develop their hand/eye coordination and develop skills that will set them in excellent stead in their lives…. xxxx

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 lovely place to explore and we love a little meander up there to swing, climb, run and spin!!!! Xxxx

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 take us to here at nursery xxxx

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 chatted together about how whenever we have an empty bottle or a wrapper we take it home and throw it in the bin.

Our children are clearly going to be the super responsible superstars of the future who will make sure their environment is looked after and we are so proud of them for this!

Thank you for caring for our local environment and being excellent ambassadors of Jollies

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 they put their fine motor skills to the test as they tweezer treasure? Will they challenge their hand/eye coordination as they fill treasure chests? Will they explore mathematical concepts of capacity and weight as the chests are filled/emptied, transported and compared? Or will they do something entirely different?!?

That’s the beauty of the early years…. Our children are the cartographers of their own experimental, creative, wonderful play and we know that with invitations to play set out and raring to go on a morning that have derived from their current interests and fascinations that ‘X’ really does mark the spot!!!

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

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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!! xxxx