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The room became a ball pool….
What’s better than a ball pool you ask? A room full of balls! Emma and Katie turned their room into a giant ball pool and it was immense!!! They all loved throwing balls at each other, kicking balls to make them fly across the room and they even made ball angels on the carpet!! Xxxx
When I grow up should I be a chef or a builder?!
Fortunately there’s many years ahead to make such life decisions and career choices… but in the meantime this little one tried a bit of everything in our Jolly mud kitchen and on our Jolly building site In the Early Years you can transform yourself into whoever, and whatever, you want to be and the possibilities …
Sun’s out…fun’s out!!
Fruity ice pop making in the sunshine was all the rage this morning at Jollies ready to cool our little Possums down later…. Yummy! As well as creating a refreshing healthy treat, this activity was also a superb opportunity to naturally extend vocabulary as Ellison named all the fruits and her children attempted to copy …
Beep Beep!!!
In Terrific Twos our children have lots of interests and one of them is TRANSPORT! They love cars, trains, bikes… everything transport related! So, responding to her children’s observed interests, Laura created an open invitation for everyone to come and join in pushing cars and trains along the road, but not just ordinary cars… before …
A vision of the future for our smallest Jollies?!?
Same resource… different use…. Instead of climbing to the top and sitting and admiring our view (and achievement!!), the self-selected challenge for our oldest children was: leaping off from as high as they possibly could… and they could!!!!! At Jollies our children blossom, grow and thrive and we are all so very proud of their …
King of my castle
Literally ‘King of the Castle’ after climbing a (tyre) mountain… putting our physical skills to the test is simply the best!! xxxx
Who’s Next?!
Our children loved playing alphabet lotto recently. In order to encourage their independence and resilience Emma tried not to get too involved as she encouraged them to keep track of whose turn it was next and how the game should progress… Generally this worked well, but she had to occasionally sensitively intervene as a little …
Is there a doctor in the house?!
You’re in safe hands here at Jollies as we have several!! xxxx
Elephants were sparkling too here at Jollies
It wasn’t just our Cheeky Monkeys children enjoying the sparkle… as Exploring Elephants got in on the shiny act too… but instead of housing a selection of shiny amazing treasures on top of their foil blanket, theirs was used to hide inside as the best kind of sparkly den!! Mirrored ways and den building days …
Summer Celebration 2023
Thank you all soooooooooo much for coming to our 2023 Summer Celebration. We hope you enjoyed having time to chill out and chat to Team Jollies and other mummies and daddies. We hope you loved your cheeky Pimms (or juice) and all the cakes the children had made for you all. We hope you also …