About Us

Jelly Roles is an independent company with classes for pre-schoolers and young school children up to 7 years. The over-riding premise of the class is for children and their carers to have fun together in a story-based world, but within that world children will develop a multitude of skills which will be invaluable as they grow and move towards school.

• Through the use of stories they will learn new vocabulary and hear words used in the correct context, which will help them to understand them. They will begin to understand the concept of a word through repetition, rhyming and alliteration etc.

• They will hear language being modelled and in time may use it themselves.

• Listening to stories helps children to learn about sequencing and cause and effect. It helps them to be able to order their thoughts.

• It also encourages children to gain an interest in books and leads to them wanting to be able to read for themselves.

• Children learn through all their senses, so movement helps to make the story much more real to them and helps them to make sense of it. By acting out they can appreciate what an action or emotion is really like.

• Play is a valuable learning tool for children. Dramatic play is pretend play. Pretending expands a child's life experiences by letting him/her be whomever they desire. The child can try on different roles when he/she pretends. A parent, an astronaut, a superhero, a lion, a witch, a princess...it doesn't matter. Through pretending children can investigate and understand the world around them.

• Participating in dramatic play involves cooperation, negotiation, sharing, problem solving, impulse control and appreciation of one another's efforts.

• Dramatic play allows children to represent real-life problems and practice solving them. They are able to question things and to learn about the world in ways that make sense to them. Pretend play will help children develop more creative problem solving skills as they grow older.

 

 

 

 

 

Each lesson has links to the Early Years Foundation Stage. In addition to developing language, listening and motor skills our stories and activities explore wider areas of learning such as basic numeracy, science and colour recognition.