A HUGE thank you to our lovely friends from the new MHA group for today’s ‘Acorn and Oaks Story telling session’ held up at The Two Pointers.

It was lovely to meet you all and share the lovely stories and story sacks. We love a natter and we books so it was the perfect combo!!!

Thank you for letting us be a part of this inter generational story session.

Thank you to our children for being superstars too, you did us a proud and were excellent ambassadors of Jollies. We hope you all enjoyed it and had lots of fun!!! Xxxx

A HUGE thank you to the group of children who visited the Memory Cafe up at the Two Pointers today for their patience, their great chatter and their brilliant listening ears!! They did us all proud as there was a little delay at the cafe today with the pancakes for the ladies and gents and it meant that our children had to wait a while for these to be eaten before the memory games could commence….

Our children sat and had their snack and a drink whilst waiting for the ladies and gents to finish up and then they got together and had a natter and played some games. It was so lovely to see this cross generational interaction and our children loved to meet and make some new friends.

We also picked up a raffle prize for Nat Nat’s purple fundraising day next week for St Gemma’s as Viv very kindly donated a bottle of sparkly for Natalie’s raffle in memory of her dad.

What a wonderful afternoon!!! xxxx

Combining paint with cars was the perfect combination for Exploring Elephants today…. They whizzed their vehicles through the different coloured paint to create track marks of their cars differing journeys! There were extra challenges involved as tinfoil boulders were obstacles that needed to be navigated!!

Early years play combines so many areas of learning and development in the most natural and holistic way. This simple activity strengthened little fingers as vehicles were grasped, it encouraged hand/eye coordination and tracking as cars journeyed along their individual courses, spatial awareness was developed as boulders were avoided! Colour recognition and mixing was touched upon as painty tracks were discussed, intrigue was fostered around the different marks being made, collaboration naturally occurred as turns were taken and vehicles were swapped and shared, language development occurred through chatting about the activity together, imaginations were sparked as scenarios were played out and sound effects were created, but most of all it was simply FABULOUS FUN that derived from our children’s current HUGE interest in cars… and you know we just love to feed and fuel our children’s interests here at Jollies!!!!! xxxx

Then… as if today wasn’t exciting enough…. We then had pancakes for our tea as it’s Pancake Day!! After sharing stories about making pancakes and role-playing creating our own pancakes we got to experience the real deal thanks to our ‘Pancake Queen’, Sian, who made them for everyone’s tea…. We had both savoury and sweet ones and most of us thought they were very yummy indeed xxxx

What a wonderful day we have had here at Jollies celebrating and finding out about Chinese New Year…. We have explored the traditions that surround this very exciting time of year and we have enjoyed James’ yummy sweet and sour chicken at lunchtime complete with pancake rolls and prawn crackers and we even had a go at eating it with chopsticks… some of us showed off some very impressive skills!

We want to say a HUGE thank you to one of our little ones as they very kindly brought in a treat bag for all of their friends within their room…. This was such a lovely, kind thing to do and we all hope you have an amazing time continuing the lunar celebrations at home together too xxxx

We have ed being with our friends this week at nursery, but we also the weekend and we our families, so we are hoping for the perfect weekend filled with love and loveliness for everyone within our whole Jolly Family!!!

Happy Valentine’s weekend one and all xxxxxxxxxx

We Team Jollies…. Sian and I got a little Valentine’s treat for our team to remind them that we love them all and are grateful for everything they bring to our Jolly Family…

Wishing everyone lots of love and happiness, not just this month but always!!!! Xxxx

(We know the way to their hearts is through their feet and their tummies ) xxxx

What’s the best thing about getting a fabulous delivery of new role-play kitchen furniture, children’s drawer units, tables and chairs and play panels….. obviously not the spangly new equipment, but the MASSIVE boxes they all came in……. Sooooo much fun playing house and building in them as a den and we think some fabulous crafting is about to come soon too….. xxxx

Loving it when we see healthy messages and routines replicated during roleplay scenarios

Hands were washed before pizza making and eating commenced!! xxxx

Putting our physical skills to the test and challenging ourselves to take measured risks with a little bit of colour recognition and mathematical language thrown in to boot… it can only be play in the early years!! Xxxx