NURSERY

Miss Page

Welcome to Nursery 

Effective Early Years development is all about learning through play and this is what we do best at Rowlands Gill Nursery!

We love to get creative, challenge and expand young minds, helping them grow across all areas of learning. We believe in working with your children; following and supporting their interests, providing an active, enabling and engaging environment.

Nursery Admissions 2018/19

All children are entitled to 15 hours of free provision provided over 38 weeks. some working parents can claim 30 hours of childcare with a validated code available through HMRC. Where a parent or carer chooses to take up fewer than 15/30 hours or chooses to split their entitlement with another provider the criteria will be applied regardless.We provide and allocate nursery places at Rowlands Gill Primary School using the local authority Nursery Education Admissions Policy.

We have 15 and 30 hour places available for the summer 18 term so please contact us if you would like more information.

Nursery Hours are:  8.45-11.45 Monday to Friday for AM sessions, 12.15-3.15 Monday to Friday for PM sessions. Children taking up a 15 hour place will be offered an AM or PM session. If these times are not suitable please contact school as we look at each place individually to suit the needs of the parents and children.

Children taking up a 30 hour place will do 8.45-3.15 Monday to Thursday and 8.45-12.45 on a Friday

We are a friendly team consisting of;

  • Miss Page – Nursery Teacher 
  • Miss Corr – HLTA
  • Mrs Preston – TA 
  • Mrs Tones – HLTA 
  • Miss King – HLTA
  • Miss Brown – Apprentice TA

We use this blog to share all our fantastic news with you, adding photographs and information to keep you updated on what is happening. We would love to hear your thoughts and what your cherubs have been up to at home with friends and family.

Please check back to see your Nursery Super Stars in action!

Thanks

Miss Page

Downloads:

Please click on the link below to download a Nursery admission form.

New Pupil Admission Form

 

Our Class Blog

Route Planning

Route Planning

As part of our Geography unit on maps we used our new map reading skills to plan a route. Will we get lost? Let's hope not!

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5B Forest Skills

5B Forest Skills

5B were amazing when they visited a local, ancient woodland to apply their Forest School skills. We explored, built, made, played and shared. What a great day!

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Adventures as a snail

Adventures as a snail

We enjoy looking for different minibeasts so this week we were a minibeast. We read the story of ‘Snail and the Whale’ and then wrote a recount of our half term holiday as though we were the snail on the back of the whale visiting the places we went while we were off....

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Repeated pattern designs

Repeated pattern designs

In computing we have been using Turtle Academy to program repeated patterns. We have been using count controlled loops. We have called on procedures to simplify our programs and have debugged our designs to make them look better.

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Oobleck- solid or liquid?

Oobleck- solid or liquid?

The children were characterising solids and liquids today but there were definitely ones that stumped them. They just didn’t fit the regular patterns.

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Monitoring the wind

Monitoring the wind

We have been learning all about the wind and how it is measured using the Beaufort Scale. We made our own wind socks to see the direction of the wind.  

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Blazing the Trail Success

Blazing the Trail Success

We have been awarded our final certificate in the Blazing the Trail P.E Project, making us the FIRST school to achieve the diamond standard this year! Well done to all of our children- they have worked incredibly hard to achieve these certificates. It's been a...

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A DfE webinar for parents on the COVID-19 vaccination

A DfE webinar for parents on the COVID-19 vaccination

We have been asked to share this information with parents. The COVID-19 vaccine is available for all children from 5 years-old. To help carers, guardians and parents decide what’s best for their children, we are partnering with the NHS in London and the National...

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What is wind?

What is wind?

Today we made wind socks to help us figure out which direction the wind was coming from. We discussed what wind is and when wind can be useful - did you know that wind energy can be used to generate electricity?! Over the coming weeks we will be observing if there are...

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Bye bye butterflies. Fly high

Bye bye butterflies. Fly high

Reception and Nursery have cared and nurtured butterflies since they were caterpillars. We have watched them change and grow discussing the life cycle as we observed it happening. We have now set them free into the world.

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