Jolly Gymnastics

What an absolute privilege it is to be someone’s very first gymnastics coach. 🫶

You know, there have been a few occasions recently where I’ve come across gymnasts I once taught. A 16 year old in the same Dance School show as my son, a 13 year old who got in touch to say they’re starting their own coaching journey, a gymnast who moved away and is now competing at the British Championships. 🤸🏻‍♀️

These gymnasts were aged 3-6 when I taught them, and chances are they’ve long forgotten their early coaches, but we never forget 🙅🏻‍♀️ the little ones we’ve taught (and what they taught us!)

It’s an absolute honour to play a part in those very early days, when someone is just discovering our fabulous sport, and it’s always a delight to find out their journey didn’t end there. 🚀 We LOVE to hear how your little ones are getting on, once they move on from Jolly Gymnastics.

Do you remember your first sports coach or teacher? 💭

Full-sized gymnastics centres are incredible. 🤩

Genuinely, we’re huge gymnastics fans and we love them. The foam pits, the spring floors, the towering bars and the rows of beams take us back to our own days competing and the incredible skills we worked so hard to achieve. 🤸🏻‍♀️🥇

But when it comes to introducing little ones 🧒🏼 to gymnastics, we believe bigger isn’t always better.

Just as you would teach a toddler to ride a bike on a smaller frame with stabilisers 🚲 or learn to swim in a shallow pool with float aids 🏊 we believe the equipment needs to be safe, age- and stage- appropriate to learn the first skills.

At Jolly Gymnastics, you’ll find miniature beams, scaled-down bars, springboards they can actually leap to the top of. We teach in a way that means it’s safe for little ones to fall and they don’t always need hands on-support from their coach. We take time to build confidence that let them know they are capable, and they can do it 🤩

We choose colour 🌈 and we choose fun props and games because children are supposed to be children, and they learn best when they absolutely love it.

There is absolutely a place for full-sized Olympic gymnastics centres and we hope one day your budding gymnasts will be there, building on the foundations they learnt with us and excelling within our sport. 🥇 But there’s a reason we that’s not what we have at Jolly Gymnastics.

What do you love best about our set up?!

🧒🏼 🌧️ Rainy Day Friday plans?! 🌧️ 🧒🏼

Jolly Tots Stage 1 classes are an opportunity to play and explore our bright, bouncy equipment freely with interaction from our qualified preschool gymnastics coaches.

Our 🗓️ Friday 11.30am 🗓️ classes are looking super quiet as many of our little ones have moved up a Stage into our structured taught classes.

We have spaces for YOU and your little one, if they’re walking up to age 4. Come and have a very jolly time tomorrow!

📍 Avian Dance School, NR6 6AQ
📱 https://bookaby.me/jollygym/whats-on/term/9086e93f-85d5-4e01-a9ae-5f772d5d514d

Planning for the week ahead? ✏️ 🗓️

We have spaces for Jolly Tots from walking to age 4 to try our preschool gymnastics sessions for the first time 🤸🏻‍♀️👧🏼

Mon-Sat at Avian Dance Studios, Norwich NR6 and Tues-Thurs at NR12 Fitness Studios, Hoveton.

Drop us a message and we’ll help you find a class to suit your little one this week, or grab your own trial session at www.jollygym.com/availability

Who’s coming with you?!

We’re not crying, you are! 🥹

We love working with local businesses and are often looking for new partnerships and ways to bring gymnastics to little ones in our community. Our session with Little Adventures Play Group was exactly that!

We have more collab sessions in the pipeline and would LOVE to hear who you think we should team up with next! 🫶

“We can all do much better in collaboration than competition.”

And it’s so true.

When we support, encourage and recommend one another, everyone benefits—especially the families and children we serve. From friendships forming on the mat to local businesses working together behind the scenes, community is at the heart of everything we do.

Thank you to everyone who supports small businesses, shares recommendations, and helps build a stronger local community. Together really is better. ❤️

We cannot recommend Jolly Gymnastics enough and the amazing work they do for our local children and families

Still not quite over our Collab Session with Little Adventures yesterday and don’t think we’ll stop smiling from this lovely feedback all day. 🥰

Local to Old Catton? Make sure to follow Lucy’s page, her monthly sessions are incredible!

What an absolute pleasure it was to ‘pop up’ at Little Adventures very first monthly Play Group in Old Catton this morning.

We took some of our mini gymnastics equipment for the tiniest tots to explore alongside Little Adventures’ soft play, sensory toys, craft activities 🎨 🖍️ and the most beautiful tuff trays 🫶

Lucy put an incredible amount of care and thought into this session, which she managed to sell out in little over 24 hours! 😮 We know she’s going to be super busy with her future sessions and would very much recommend you follow along so you can join her… you won’t want to miss out!

Thanks to Lucy for letting us be a part of the first 🥰 and to everyone who we met today. Hopefully see you all soon! 👋

Sent to us by a parent with the caption ‘One way to keep them quiet’ 🤐

Got us thinking… maybe we should give stickers out at the beginning not the end of class! 😂

You know we’re kidding…. We love the chats and giggles these little ones bring to class 😆

Our admin team working their magic 🪄✨🦄

Just kidding… our admin team *is* our team 💜

From coaching, to cleaning, tying up hair, packing party bags and answering your emails… our small team wears a LOT of hats.

Thanks for your patience while we do our very best to reply to every enquiry as quickly as possible 💌

Gymnastics for Preschoolers - Norwich and Wroxham! 🤸🏻‍♀️👦🏽

If you’re looking for a new activity for the new half term, now’s the time to book a trial with us.

All sessions are led by British Gymnastics qualified staff with preschool qualifications, on equipment designed especially for little ones’ age and stage of development 🤩. Bright, bouncy, child-focused and very very jolly.

Our 3 stage programme includes:

👶🏼 Stage 1: unstructured, child led opportunity to play and explore
🧒🏼 Stage 2: we teach the FUNdamentals of gymnastics in a structured way and you stay to assist throughout
👧🏼 Stage 3: we teach whilst you watch from the side from within the same room or in Reception if you prefer.

DM us your enquiries now 💌 or check our 6 day timetable at www.jollygym.com/availability 🗓️