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
Christmassy Christingles
To learn more about the meaning of Christmas, all of Key Stage Two made their own Christingles.
Jumping Jacks!
Clay Dragon’s Eyes
As part of this half term's art lessons (linking to our english text- The Paper Bag Princess), we have been designing dragon's eyes, looking specifically at the intimate detail and the colours. Today's lesson was extra exciting! We used clay to create our very own...
Our Christmas Cards for the Community.
This afternoon, we have used art straws to create these snowy Christmas cards for the people of our community. We had to be very patient and take our time to measure each straw so that they were all appropriate lengths.
Pointillism Paintings
The children have started getting braver with their art skills and thinking of their own ideas for this pointillism painting. They applied the skills they have been learning over the weeks.
We have been learning about the Japanese art of origami…
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
This half-term, as part of our work around Japan, we have been exploring Japanese art. We looked at a variety of Japanese artforms such as calligraphy, pencil drawings and manga, but our most impressive piece by far was our replicas of The Great Wave off Kanagawa by...
Newsletter 04.12.20
Please click on the link below to see the latest RGPS newsletter with important information about changes to Bubble pick up and drop off times to start on Monday. Newsletter 4.12.20
Dragon’s Eyes.
In today's art lesson, we have designed, drawn and coloured our dragon's eyes (linked to our story in english, The Paper Bag Princess). We will be making our dragon's eyes next week using clay and clay tools.
Speech Marks
We are really getting used to knowing where speech marks appear in a sentence.
The Happy Newspaper
Thanks to a generous contribution from the Friends of Rowlands Gill (our PTA), we have been able to purchase copies of the Happy Newspaper to use as morning jobs in the class. The Happy Newspaper is aimed giving children access to positive news stories around the...
strengthening structures
We had to make our Stone Age houses as strong as they could be so practised ways of strengthening structures with only paper, tape and a can of baked beans! We rolled, combined, taped and attached and found a triangle to be a more strong shape than a rectangle. How...