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
Microhabitats and woodlice galore
In 1.2M, we took advantage of the good weather and took Science outside to hunt for microhabitat and minibeasts in our very own playground. We used a tally chart to count up our different creatures in two microhabitats. We mapped out the playground to show where we...
Fruit Skewers!
As part of our DT lessons, we have designed and made fruit skewers. They tasted delicious!
Shielding guidance is being paused for clinically extremely vulnerable people
The government has announced that shielding guidance is being paused. From Thursday 1 April, clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) people are no longer advised to shield. CEV people must continue to follow the national restrictions that are in place for everyone. From...
Mar/Apr issue of Families Newcastle Gateshead Magazine
Here is the LINK to the Mar/Apr issue of Families Newcastle Gateshead Magazine. It's jam packed with ideas to help families get the most out of springtime with recipe and craft ideas, education articles and much more. The 2021 Awards are now OPEN! Nominations for...
A green smoothie for the princess (without peas!)
This morning, in english, we have used many skills to create a green smoothie for the princess in our story. Lily-Rose May does not like peas, but her dad is trying to find different green fruit and vegetables which she does like. To help him, we made a green smoothie...
Take a look at our Fractions…
Newsletter 19 March 2021
Click on the link below to read our latest newsletter: 19.03.21 Newsletter
FoRGPS 19.03.21
Thanks to everyone’s continued support using the rag bag bin. It has been emptied this week and the donation will be a welcome addition to our funds. Please do continue to drop off any unwanted clothes and shoes (no school uniform with logos please) especially if you...
Castles
The children have shown a keen interest in castles this week. There has been a lot of construction work going on and the children have made castles using a range of media and materials including junk modelling and building blocks. Some children decided they needed...
Life Skills- Hand Washing
In this afternoon's life skills lesson, we have been learning the importance of hand washing and when we have to wash our hands. We followed the germs from Ms Wood's hands around the classroom, through the use of post-it notes and we realised how far germs can travel...
Smoothie making (following a recipe)
In this morning's english lesson, we have started to learn about recipes. We had to follow each step in a recipe carefully to make our own smoothies. We had to measure the berries, yoghurt and orange juice, wash the berries, chop the fruit and blend the fruit. We...
Thank you Mr Boddy for our pea seeds!
As part of our learning about 'The Princess and the Pea', Mr Boddy kindly brought us in some pea seeds to plant in class. We soaked some of the pea seeds in water and we kept some of the pea seeds dry. We have planted both the wet and dry seeds in wet paper towels in...










