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My fave place

When the ball pool is your happy place and a balloon floats by…… xxxx

Love is all around!

We have been feeling the love here at Jollies… Talk (and play!) has turned to all things love this week here at nursery…. Our children have been immersed in red, pink and love hearts. They’ve scooped and poured red rice, they’ve pressed hearts into play dough, they’ve created ‘love bugs’, they’ve printed and painted, they’ve …

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Happy Valentines Day

Team Jollies We hope you are feeling the love today from the tips of your warm snuggly toes… …. to the relaxing scents that drift from burner to nose Happy Valentine’s Day you crazy amazing Jolly people and thank you all for being you!!!! Just break off the wax melt of your choice and take …

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We are loving our babies…

Role-playing is a brilliant source of imaginative play and developing creativity whilst also allowing little ones to reenact lived and familiar experiences. It is also an opportunity not to be missed by our closely observing practitioners too! Alice spotted this little one so engrossed in his love and care for his baby and so Alice …

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The Gruffalo

A mouse took a stroll through the deep, dark wood…. Bringing stories to life in THE most magical of ways….. it’s just the Jolly way!! xxxx

A silly five minutes!!

Lauren had been laid on the floor playing with her children (as we know that there’s far more fun to be had, and better quality learning to be taking place, whilst getting down to our children’s levels to interact, rather than just sitting at a table in a restrictive style!) when these little ones decided …

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Story time with Emily

This little one loved getting snuggly in the story sharing area as she and Emily shared a book together. Team Jollies love nothing more than sharing a story… and we’ve been known to read book, after book, after book, after book…. What Jolly book worms we truly all are!! Xxxx

Sensory spaces, amazing places!!

As well as having a range of sensory resources within their rooms our children also get to visit our sensory room…. This is a versatile space that can be adapted to suit all our children’s varying needs and interests from our very youngest babies to our soon-to-be schoolies…. Insightful practitioners simply grab the sensory room …

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You’ve gotta roll with it!!

How brilliant our totally tuned-in practitioners are here at Jollies at following their children’s interests and fascinations… After all, when learning truly derives from our children and comes from the heart it has to be even more effective, doesn’t it?!?! With a little bit of imagination every area of learning can be covered and the …

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Happy Chinese New Year!

One little one brought in a goody bag for each of her friends and carers to help her celebrate this special day! Thankyou so much for this kind gesture. We have been celebrating all across nursery with various activities, lots of lanterns and a yummy dinner of sweet and sour, rice, spring rolls and prawn …

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