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
Winter Shape Poems (using verbs)
Today, in english, we have written winter poems in the shape of either a snowman or a snowflake. We have used exciting verbs to start each line of our poems and we have used commas to list:
Story Time
Writing at home is tricky for children- without Miss Winskill prodding them! We have worked incredibly hard over the past two weeks to create our own story to go with our digital literacy clip Lilly and the Snowman. We wrote a section every other day to make it more...
Total Recall – Phonics Style
The children have been recapping their set 2 and set 3. You can't beat this speed. Speed demons!
Don’t believe everything you see! Safer Internet Day 1.2M
For Internet Safety Day this year, I wanted to show the children to not always believe what they see on the internet. I tried to fool with a new hairdo and glasses (and a facelift) but they were too clever for me, Throughout the day they came up...
Wonderful Weather Watchers
We used our very own weather diary from school to create a pictogram. Not only did they make their pictogram but they also devised questions and answered them using the data. It feels like we are doing pictograms from all angles at the moment- in Maths, in Computing...
Instruction intros to blow your socks off 1.2M writing
These kids are using their alliteration skills and applying it to their instruction writing and adding in some rhetorical questions to get the reader thinking. Well done kids! We collaborated all our work to make a class set of instruction on how to make a bird...
Instruct away children; you’re in charge!
For the last 2 weeks, the children have been writing instructions to make bird feeders and then in the second week instructions for DIY bubble wands and mixtures. They have worked so hard. I for one am going to follow these instructions and make my own DIY bubble wand...
Town, Village or City? 1.2M Geography
This week in Geography the children have been learning about where we live and where that is. They have made some epic pictures to show the difference between villages, towns and cities and they have thrown in countries, their houses and (some of them even themselves)...
We are historians… What have we discovered about the Ancient Maya?
Did you know? The Maya civilisation began long ago in a place called 'Mesoamerica'. This huge area is made up of Mexico and part of Central America. The Mayas built amazing cities like Tikal (which they called 'Yax Mutal') and Palenque. Even though they lived in...
Our Handmade Fruit Bird Feeders
Fantastic Fossils!
In 4B we've been learning about Rocks and - as part of that - we researched Mary Anning and her fossils. Apart from finding out about how amazing Mary Anning was, we also shared pictures of fossils that we have at home or that we have seen. We've put them together...
Horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines.
This morning in maths, we've been learning the difference between horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines. We then had to find these lines in real-life pictures.











