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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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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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