A wonderful morning spent here when this little one drew their lovely family and proceeded to tell NatNat (in detail!) who each person was and they positively glowed as they talked about them with such excitement and pride!

Arty days and conversational ways spent together here at Jollies xxxx

Who knew shiny, shiny things could bring so much pleasure to our little ones?! Their key people did clearly; as they’d observed them spontaneously looking in the room’s mirror and giggling as they loved looking at their gorgeous reflections…

So the ultimate shiny ‘tuff tray’ was set up to extend their current observed interest xxxx

Our nursery is truly a home from home and when your little one joins our Jolly Family they will embark upon the best possible learning journey as they experience daily adventures with their friends.

Just like you’d get the paddling pool out in the garden at home, weather permitting, we do exactly the same here at Jollies too.

We love to splish and splash and fill, pour and empty and as every day’s a school day we also use such occasions as an opportunity to consider how we can keep ourselves safe as we play.

Staying cool on a summer’s day in the wonderful, wonderful water… yes please!! Xxxx

Such imagination as these two friends dined together… they chatted, giggled and feasted until their hearts were truly content xxxx

We know our children inside out, we welcome them with open arms and hearts, we meet their every need, we know what we want them to learn next, we observe them closely in order to guide their future fun and learning, we keep them safe throughout the day, we encourage them to explore and discover and risk assess and take measured risks, we’re there to snuggle, reassure and guide them, we share the best stories, we know their little quirks and signs and signals and respond to these to ensure their well-being is constantly high and….. we morph into a train for them to set off on a magical journey upon!!!! xxxx

Water-pistols, Ducks, Balls, Cups and Crocodiles…

It can only be water play… the Jolly way!! xxxx

The day started off in a super exciting way as we all caught the 446 bus to Rothwell. We loved going on the bus as we regularly get very excited as we see these buses from our room’s window and wave, so to actually go on one was fantastic! But…… it got even more exciting as our next ride was on a tractor! The farmer picked us up and we got pulled in a trailer all the way up the lane to the farm.

Cheryl was our lovely guide for the day and under her close supervision we met all the animals; both large and small. We got to stroke bunnies and guinea pigs, we looked through at the meerkats, we gave the lambs their bottles, we met the donkeys, alpacas, emus, chickens, geese, pigs and piglets, calves and the HUGE cows!

The cows made us laugh as they used their VERY long tongues to grab carrots off the fence. We thought our tongues were long when we poked them out, but they weren’t a patch on theirs!!

We listened so carefully to Cheryl and fed them with flat hands with thumbs tucked in so we didn’t get nibbled fingers. We didn’t touch our faces or put our hands in our mouths and we washed our hands after feeding and touching the animals as we needed to keep ourselves clean and we didn’t want poorly germs to make our tummies feel sick.

We had a great packed lunch together in the barn and we also managed to squeeze in snack and an icepop too!

We played on all the play areas; the gigantic beach area, the bouncy castle, the trampolines, the climbing frames, the swings, the ride on tractors to name but a few.

We spent our pennies in the farm’s gift shop after carefully making our choices and then we walked back down the lane to catch the bus back to Jollies.

We sang songs at the bus stop and we talked about our favourite things at the farm and we counted down the minutes until the bus arrived.

What a wonderful day at the farm we’ve all had… It was so lovely to spend this time together before we all begin to depart nursery as our Jolly journeys come to an end…

Free-Flow, Laura, Imogen, Stephen, Natalie, Emma, Eloise, Sian and Tracey are super proud of you all and want to thank you for a lovely day! We think all the Jolly grown ups will sleep well tonight and we have a feeling you all will too!!! (Especially as some of your mummies and daddies told us you were up at 5.00 this morning with excitement!!) xxxx

It started off filled with balls as our children explored rolling the balls down the ramp in our garden… there was much excitement as the differing balls rolled down and the Jolly grown-ups used this opportunity to cleverly extend their children’s vocabulary naturally around colour, length, speed and distance as the balls’ journeys were instinctively compared!

Yet in the next instance the bowl morphed into a means of travelling down the ramp in itself… filled with, not balls, but our intrepid explorers instead!!!!

Rolling and racing and chasing and sliding… it’s what childhood is all about xxxx

Inspired by 75 fabulous years of our NHS our children set about caring for them and making their friends feel much better.

Perhaps we have some future fabulous doctors and nurses here at Jollies…. Xxxx

We blasted off into sensory heaven the other day with a giant space themed painting! We started off with a crinkly emergency blanket for our base, added some slimy paint, some sensory silver balls (that make different sounds when rolled) and a selection of different rollers and cutters to make shapes in the paint. It didn’t take long for us to go from making marks to ‘bathing’ in the paint, making sure to get the paint ALL OVER our bodies; loving the sensory texture and the feedback this gave us… We absolutely loved every minute of this activity, it really was out of this !