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Happy New Year (and Happy Birthday too!!)
We hope our whole Jolly Family have had an amazing Christmas time and we’d like to wish each and every one of you a happy, healthy, peaceful, love, laughter and fun filled 2024…. As the New Year begins we turn 19 and we’d like to thank each and every one of our Jolly children and …
Unlocking our full potential…
Our older children have been tackling the padlocks and keys recently… They showed us that they had lots of perseverance and drive to problem-solve as they exhibited extreme determination and focus throughout when they tried to find the matching keys for all the different locks. Our children were so excited and proud of themselves when …
Painting with a difference!
Recently Stephen made some ‘clipboards’ using cardboard and pieces of coloured card and attached them to the edges of the table with sellotape. This created a blank canvas to create a modern masterpiece on, but very much one with a difference… As his children painted, their boards MOVED! They swung backwards, forwards and side to …
It’s that time of year again!!!!!!!!!
You can tell it’s almost Christmas by Imogen’s hair…. There’s a Rudolph on her head…. a red-nosed reindeer on her head….. whatever next?!?! We love, love, love Imogen and her crazy, amazing Christmas hair!! Xxxx
Christmas Dinner Yumminess….
…….And the exciting Christmas events keep on coming as today we’ve had our first Jolly Christmas Dinner Day. The tables were decorated, the crackers were pulled, the hats were worn and the most delicious yummy food was eaten!! Our children even tried their sprouts (as some thought they just didn’t like them!) and for some …
A special visitor!
We had a VERY special visitor yesterday at Jollies… with a jingling of bells and a ‘Ho Ho Ho’ the big man in red appeared to bring all our children and Team Jollies a special present. We are officially excited! Thank you Santa (and Elf Helper Katie too) for taking time out of your busy …
Exploring with little fingers and toes!!!
Recently Laura made some very exciting sensory bags for her babies!!! They then used their fingers and toes to touch and feel all the different textures within them; from paint, to crazy foam, to feathers!!! All her children were very focused and they spent ages touching and feeling the variety of bags with their very …
Ribbons, ribbons everywhere!!
Little fingers got working and strengthening recently when our children used their hand/eye coordination to practise their threading on a metal dome. They had to make decisions… which colour would they choose next? They had to investigate… how long was the piece they were using and how much could it be pulled before it came …
Christmas prep begins!
Christmas is all about the preparation… Santa and the elf are busy making a list and checking it twice!! Xxxx
A captivating read
When the frost and ice arrived outside recently Natalie saw this as the perfect opportunity to extend her children’s interests (as they had shown their natural curiosity on their journeys into nursery) so she found some books to reflect the weather outside and they shared a little group storytime about snowmen and wintry weather all …