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Our second ‘For the Love of Learning Evening’ tonight

Thank you so much Team Jollies for staying on, and mummies and daddies for coming in, after a long day’s work for all of us to celebrate our children’s Jolly learning journeys and their total love of learning… We hope you all enjoyed looking through memories books and chatting together about all things Jollies!! Thank …

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What a flipping wonderful day we have all had….

From making pancake faces, to flipping pretend ones in pans, to exploring pancake sensory trays, to having Mr Wolf (of Mr Wolf’s pancakes fame!) visit us, to eating the REAL DEAL!!! Boy did we eat them too…. Savoury first and then sweet ones!! We kept Sian making pancakes (with assistance from sidekick Fiona!) for three …

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Maths is fun!!!!

What better way to learn subitising skills than playing a game of dominoes with your friends!!!! Xxxx

Who will I become today?!?!

We simply love to follow our children’s interests here at Jollies as they can lead us to some crazy, amazing places and the very best learning takes place when our children are fully engaged, absorbed and engrossed! Some of our oldest children are currently OBSESSED with bringing stories to life and creating puppet shows and …

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Oh help, oh no…. It’s only the Gruffalo!!!

Earlier in the week Terrific Twos went on a lovely walk to the canal…and what a beautiful day they had for it They took along some birdseed in case they spotted any ducks… and boy did they!! There were LOTS and LOTS of them, so they stopped and fed them all… They then all took …

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Dressing up

It’s not just our children who like dressing up here at Jollies…. Jessica needed no persuasion by them to join in all the fun and don the unicorn glasses and drape herself in chiffon!! Imaginative days and crazy dressing up ways spent giggling together here at Jollies xxxx

Sticklebrick Towers!

So much fun stacking them and getting them to stick, but nothing beats knocking a tower down!! Xxxx

Houses and Homes

Our children have found a recent fascination for talking about homes and families and sharing what these look like for all of them. Houses have been at the forefront of many of these conversations; especially after they read the book ‘This is my home’…. Soooo many wonderful discussions ensued. So to follow on from this …

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Our first ‘For the Love of Learning Evening’…

A HUGE thank you to all the Cheeky Monkeys and Pouncing Possums parents/carers who came along tonight for our first ‘For the Love of Learning Evening’… We hope you enjoyed looking through your children’s Memories Book with them and having a chat with their key people and other parents/carers too whilst having a cuppa and …

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Our second Jolly Memory Cafe visit….

A new group of children walked super sensibly up to the Two Pointers to meet some new friends at the monthly Memory Cafe which is held there. It was lovely to see the cross-generational friendships developing as conversations were had together. We did some magic painting, we did some dinosaur colouring in and we sang …

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