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.



Our Class Blog
Music in 1R
1R have been practising their skills on the glockenspiels in music by identifying simple notes and keeping a steady beat to the music.
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What is surrealism?
As part of our art unit about Joan Miro, 4B have been exploring the surrealist style of art. We practised Joan Miro's technique of free-drawing, where we simply draw without thinking or planning. Take a look at our efforts and see what you think.
How can I talk about animals in French?
As part of our les animaux unit in French, 4B have been learning how to say and write the names of common animals in French.
What can artefacts teach me about the Egyptians?
4B have been very fortunate to borrow a box of ancient Egyptian artefacts from the Oriental Museum in Durham, so we spent an afternoon exploring the artefacts and asking questions about their use. When we’d all had a good look, we decided to do some research to find...
Forest School
Today was our first Forest School session of the new year and 4B had a great time. Look at at the photos to see how the children explored the environment.
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Back to school
We have enjoyed coming back to school, seeing our friends and welcoming new members of the class. We have been creating lots of models of toys we got for Christmas, visiting the farm shop role play area to buy vegetables and painting pictures to take home. We also...
Hansel and Gretel
We read our new class text this week. We enjoyed getting to know the story and characters by taking part in a role-play lesson. We then carried out class discussions about the choices that the characters make at different points of the story.
What is area?
We've been learning about area this week and decided to use post-it notes to explore how we can measure the space taken up by a shape.
Throwing and Catching
We have been developing our throwing and catching skills in PE. We used the underarm technique to throw a ball or beanbag to our peers. Using our hand-eye coordination, we practised throwing and catching from a variety of distances.