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
Colour Monster
In Nursery, we are starting to identify how we are feeling today and talking about those feelings. We are using the Zones of Regulation to help us understand them. First we explored different colours around the classroom, went on a colour hunt, sorted objects by...
Making a castle
We created a castle for the giant, added beautiful flowers in flower boxes and decorated the castle to make it colourful. We hope he loves the castle.
Class 2 Winners !!
Well done to Class 2 for winning the WOW Activity Tracker Trophy for September. 73% of children in Class 2 recorded the most active travel journeys traveling to or from school. All the children across school were rewarded with a badge if they traveled actively...
A visitor came to see us…
We had a visitor come to Class 1 during the night, leaving footprints and a letter in our room. We replied to his letter and compared how big our feet are against the giant’s footprints.
Numbers to 20 in French!
Snip, Snip, Snip…
We have been practising using scissors and developing cutting skills snipping different materials. The straws were great fun and kept popping off as we snipped.
International Walk to School Month
As part of our school initiative to encourage children and families becoming more healthy, the children are logging their journey to school on their daily WOW tracker. If they travel actively (walk/wheel, cycle, scoot or Park and Stride) to or from school at least...
Reception, I’ll blow your house down!
After the Big Bad Wolf delivered materials to our class for us to build houses, he forgot the sticks so we needed to go on a stick hunt of our own. We loved acting out the story of ‘TheThree Little Pigs’ and making houses of our own. The straw came in handy when we...
C4 and C7’s Forest Fun!
When Goldilocks Came to the House of the bears….
This week's key text is Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The nursery children followed instructions to make the most delicious porridge to share in the hall after we practised the Goldilocks Song. They wanted to share the song they have learnt with the reception...
What are the functions of the different types of teeth?
Suitcase prayers
We loved a suitcase prayer session at lunchtime with Ruth from Strathmore Road Church - thank you again!