We are sooooooo excited about our upcoming 2024 Reception Class School Leavers Trip!!

Today Emma and I have been on a recce to Swithen’s Farm to refresh our memories about all the lovely things we can expect from our day.

This trip is simply fabulous and the farm are super organised and always provide us with an excellent leavers trip and a day to remember.

This day is a special treat for all our big school leavers and a chance to spend the day with their key people before they begin the countdown to leaving Jollies to take their next exciting, amazing step!!

A huge thank you to Lisa for providing us with updated risk assessments and showing us around this morning to help with our planning so we feel organised and ready for our visit…

All the animals are looking forward to seeing us MOOOOOOOn….. ooops we mean Sooooooooon!!!! Xxxx

A mini impromptu band (or ten!!) popped up throughout the day when our children discovered a table covered in musical instruments! They worked collaboratively together to create mini musical masterpieces and these ranged from pop songs, to tv programme theme tunes, to nursery rhymes to literally their very own creations!!

We love our children’s musicality and confidence here at nursery as Jollies becomes their very own stage!! xxxx

One of our lovely parents brought in this gorgeous sweet treat for us today… we hadn’t even realised, but today is ‘National thank a teacher day’

What a lovely thing for us to receive and Team Jollies are truly feeling thankful and appreciated (…..and very, very excited for our lunch breaks now too!! )

We are very lucky to have such supportive parents/carers who work in such close partnership with us as we strive together to help their little ones reach their full potential… and for this we are always grateful xxxx

Ellison set up an investigation station in Cheeky Monkeys and it certainly piqued her children’s interest and sparked their curiosity.

There were many things to explore and our children used the magnifying glasses to see things in a very different light. They investigated the giant magnets… …. Which things would the magnets pick up? Why did some things not stick to them? There were unusual objects to explore too and the type writer was simply amazing to see levers lift as keys were pressed.

Fascinating stuff to explore, explore, explore…. Xxxx

After a recent huge delivery Stephen found a way to get creative with the very last of the cardboard boxes.

He imaginatively created a fun game involving said box and some balls! His children then worked together to try and get the coloured balls to fall down into the holes that he had made. How many could they make disappear? ……and how quickly could they do this? …… would any fall off, or could they balance the box to keep them all on?

This challenge required our children to use their coordination and work as a team as they had to communicate as they tipped and tilted the box from side to side and up and down together!!

They constantly talked to each another as they did this about which way they needed to move the box to achieve their goal.

What a challenge this was and what excellent communication, collaboration, coordination and control they all exhibited!!

Who knew that a box and some balls could be so exciting?! xxxx

This morning Sally and Colin brought the story bus to Jollies. We visited it in small groups to have a singsong with Sally, accompanied by Colin on his guitar. We then chose stories to share with each other or on our own in the story den holes. We loved this as we absolutely LOVE books at Jollies!!!

Whether it be snuggling and sharing a group story with Evie or getting lost in a little book moment all by ourselves our children simply adore books here at Jollies!!

The magic of books definitely permeates our very being here at Jollies Xxxx

As transport was currently a huge favourite in Natalie and Evie’s room and their children were always spotting different modes of transport out of their room’s huge window they decided to pop over the road to see some real trains!!!!

They went on a lovely walk to the train station where they talked about what they could see all around them on their travels and they also liked to wave to their friends too as Cheeky Monkeys decided to join in Possums’ fun!!

At the station they loved waving to all the trains and they even spotted a helicopter flying above them in the sky!

They enjoyed some yummy snack whilst watching out for the trains and they sang some songs too whilst waiting for the next one to arrive in the station.

They managed to see 5 trains and all the children were mesmerised and really enjoyed it when the trains beeped at them!

What a fun morning it was getting out and about in our local community… yay to that we all say!!! xxxx

Recently Possums had a fabulous morning exploring their soft play!!!

A tunnel had been created by the grownups for everyone to travel through which they absolutely loved.

However, once the tunnel had been knocked over quite a few of them then loved to sit on one of the soft play pieces and rock backwards and forwards!!!

This then inspired everyone to enjoy singing ‘horsey horsey don’t you stop’…

This resulted in our little ones rocking faster and faster!!

Lots of building with the blocks, balancing on the blocks, climbing over the blocks, ducking under the archways and generally moving around and exploring, exploring, exploring occurred.

All the time our youngest giraffes were collaborating, creating, turn-taking, imagining, communicating, coordinating, investigating and exploring their bodies’ physical skills, movements, strength and capabilities!!

Soft play days and skill developing ways spent building together here at Jollies xxxx

This morning Possums were being super observant and were obsessed with looking out of their room’s HUGE window!!

They saw lots of interesting things going on; from Tracey weeding, to the wonderful ‘Woodlesford in Bloom’ volunteer planting up our Jolly pots! They were all VERY interested and wanted to see even more closely for themselves!!!

So Natalie took small groups outside to look extra closely and they certainly all saw, and heard, lots more!!

The very lovely lady from ‘Woodlesford in Bloom’ who was busy planting spoke to our children and she let them look at all the different plants and she talked about all the wonderful colours they will soon be when they flower!

Our children also saw lots of cars, vans, buses and even a tractor!!!!! It was all very exciting as we observed our amazing village environment and all this was occurring right outside our very own Jolly window…

Keep those eyes peeled as who knows what we will all spot next?! Xxxx