The biggest thank you goes out to everyone who came this evening to our 2024 Summer Celebration…. We hope you enjoyed looking through your little ones’ Memories Books and chatting to each other and Team Jollies too. We hope you enjoyed your Pimms/juice and biscuits and we were soooooo lucky with the weather (please keep …
Hiding in the tunnel waiting in anticipation for Alice to walk past!! Can you tell which photo is the one where this little one jumped out?! Outdoorsy days and tunnelling ways spent giggling together here at Jollies xxxx
Sensory room calling… Floating balloons falling Reflections make us giggle… Exciting tunes make us wiggle! Flashing lights Exciting sights Which senses will we use? Which resources will we choose? Watch this space it’s so much fun For you, for me…. for EVERYONE!!!! Xxxx
Sometimes a regular sized ball pool just doesn’t make the cut!!! Cheeky Monkeys were OBSESSED with balls; so after investigating rolling them along drainpipes, fitting them through tubes (some whizzed through and some were too large!), balancing them on cones, sorting them into groups according to colour, counting them into piles, exploring different textured ones …
We are still OBSESSED with holidays and some of the children were talking about postcards and some have even sent them to their friends back at Jollies from their travels. So Imogen created an exciting writing/mark-making opportunity derived from their experiences when she gave her children the opportunity to create their very own holiday postcards…. …
After their sleep recently, once everybody had woken up, Natalie’s children all spontaneously decided to observe the outdoor environment as the whole room ended up looking out into the world outside their window! One little one stopping to pause and reflect and then reacting to what they could see outside led to all their friends …
Stephen observed recently that some of their children could be a bit up and down with their listening skills and they could get quite distracted at times…. So to focus in upon this area more and develop these skills and have a positive impact upon their learning and development he invented a new game involving …
Not that our children are obsessed or anything!! The talk has all been about holidays in Free-Flow recently, either ones that have been taken, or ones that are upcoming… So passports were found, suitcases packed and the runway prepared as our first Jolly flights began to take off…… Such excitement, imagination and creativity!! We love …
Adventures with friends and dressing up that never ends… what will you imagine and become today?!?! We can’t wait to see…. From helping to look after patients in hospital, looking after our ‘babies’, fixing the fence in the garden to having a natter in the Jolly cafe…. There are so many possibilities as our imaginations …
Exploring Elephants have shown themselves to be excellent firefighters recently as they rushed to put out the fire Jade and Latisha had created for them! After observing their children role-playing within the room and shouting ‘Fire! Fire!’ the grownups extended this interest outside on a much larger scale incorporating role play helmets and hoses and …