Jolly Gymnastics

Well, that’s that. ✅

We’ve officially de-jollified the room where we started this journey 🤸🏻‍♀️ and have handed back the keys 🔑. Our *first* home - a space we made so special, which will always have room in our hearts.

If you think we’re a little sad about it, you’re right. But if you think the best is yet to come for Jolly Gymnastics, you’re also right. 💪

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When you ask the team to get photos of Teddy Bear’s Picnic Camp…. And they get the assignment! 📸

Bear 🐻 with us whilst we decide which ones to post, our camera roll is absolutely STUFFED 😂 🧺

It’s Goodbye for our wonderful Alayne 💗 👋

We know lots of you will be sad to know that tomorrow is Alayne’s last day with Jolly Gymnastics.

Alayne joined us a year ago on a fixed term contract, to support our Tots classes and lead our Jolly Gym classes, mostly at Avian Dance Studios 💙 With that contract now coming to an end, Alayne is moving onto new ventures….

We’ve been so very lucky to be part of Alayne’s coaching journey and to see how her confidence, relationships and ‘jolly’ nature have developed. She’s become such a valued member of the team and many of our families love her dearly!

Hopefully this won’t be the last we see of Alayne - we know she wants to visit with her niece 👧🏼 and we hope we can persuade her back to see everyone soon! 🫶

We’ll pull together all of your comments into a card for Alayne so please do let her know how special she has been below ⬇️

Want a little peek behind the scenes? 👀 Here’s what we’ve really been up to at Jolly Gym this week…

🤸🏻‍♀️ You may have spotted Coaches Alayne, Tara, Naomi or Erin in the gym. We’re all taking a little more time off with our families over the Summer holidays, but we’ve still managed to squeeze in 1️⃣3️⃣ classes, and 4️⃣ private sessions for those booking the gym out to themselves.

🏖️ Our Beach Party sessions took around 3 hours to set up at the start of the week (➕ 90 mins to move it all to NR12, and the same back again) and with 15 mins to tidy the beach balls, sea creatures and ice creams at the end of each session that’s nearly 1️⃣1️⃣ hours setting up in one week alone!

👋 We’ve been delighted to onboard Coach Naomi to the Jolly team this week. There’ll be a proper introduction coming very soon!

💻 Behind the scenes, we’ve also met with British Gymnastics, been in touch with our local councils and Active Norfolk, started planning our very first sessions for the Autumn term and been picking up your messages too. Can you believe we’ve had 7️⃣ enquiries for birthday parties 🥳 just this week?!

📦 Next week is a BIG one. We’ll be packing up and transporting lots of our equipment as we get ready for our move, with plenty of sorting, organising and cleaning thrown in. (That’s the bit we all put off, isn’t it?! 🙈)

There’s always so much more happening behind the scenes than the 45 or 60 minutes you see in class.
What else would you like to know about the backstage workings of Jolly Gym. Ask us anything! ⬇️

FAQ: can parents watch school-aged classes❓

This one is a resounding YES!! 🙌🏻

Of course, if your little one is happy for you to drop them with us whilst you use the gym 🏋️‍♀️, do your food shopping or enjoy some peace, we’re happy with that too. But if you want to stay and watch their class 👀 we’d love to have you!

We know sometimes you’ll want to see their progress, and sometimes they’re more comfortable with you nearby too 🫶

What you need to know ⬇️
We have limited seating at the side of class 🪑 and we do have a Viewing Policy to ensure that everyone stays safe and little ones aren’t distracted, which you can read anytime at www.jollygym.com/downloads 📄

What do you think? Do you have (almost) as much fun as the gymnasts themselves from the sidelines? 😃

We are so super excited 🥳 to be trialling our popular Jolly Tots Stage 1 and 2 classes at East Coast Emeralds Cheerleading from September 💚

The incredible team at Emeralds know Jolly Gym, as their own little ones have been a part of our community themselves, and they are SUCH a supportive and inspiring team of coaches. We are absolutely delighted that they’re welcoming us into their gym with such open arms 🤗 on Monday and Tuesday mornings from 14th Sept.

Their beautiful facility 🏠 has a sprung floor (!) and some of the blocks and matting we already use within class, but we’ll also be bringing our bars, beams and hand apparatus so little ones can sample all that gymnastics has to offer. 🤸🏻‍♀️

The same jolly, play-based ethos you’ve come to know and love of Jolly Gym, but soon at East Coast Emeralds.

The start of something super 🤞
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📍 Marriott Close, NR2 4UX near Go Outdoors