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
How do we make a Stone Age roof waterproof?
We are designing a Stone Age home and decided that the roof was a very important part of the structure. We took three materials which would have been around in those days: ferns, moss and bark and devised a fair test. We poured 5ml, 10ml and 15ml of water on each and...
FoRGPS 20.11.20
Thank you to everyone who has already returned raffle tickets to school. We have had lots of fantastic prizes donated by our local community, pop on our Facebook page to have a look! To boost our prizes further, next week we would be very grateful of donations towards...
Apostrophe Surgery!
Today, in english, we have been learning how to use apostrophes for contracted forms. We used our apostrophe plasters to stick two words together to make the contracted form.
Investigating our shadows.
In today's science lesson, we have been investigating the hours of daylight in autumn and winter. We created a pictogram and we found out that December and January have the least amount of daylight. We finished our science lesson by investigating our shadows in the...
Comparing amounts (of tens and ones)
In today's maths lesson, we have continued to compare amounts of tens and ones using the greater than, less than and equal to signs. We were even making and comparing 3-digit numbers. Muhammad even managed to work out that 13 ones needs to become 1 ten and 3 ones in...
Investigating daylength in autumn
We did some investigating over the week. I set the challenge for the children that they needed to put their teddies to bed when the sun set. They took photos every night and recorded the time. The children then did some pattern spotting and noticed what was changing.
Partitioning into tens and ones
Apostrophes for Possession
We have been learning how to use apostrophes for possession in our english lesson today and we have made a super start!
We are all part of the anti-bullying puzzle
Today we all took part in creating an enormous puzzle of anti-bullying. Everyone designed a puzzle piece with a message of anti- bullying.
Visiting 3L’s Stone Age Museum
We were lucky enough to be invited to Mrs Lynch's class' museum this afternoon, which they have set up in Hall 2. They have displayed a range of artefacts from the Stone Age and they have written some excellent descriptions of them too. Thank you 3L, for our invite!
FORGS Christmas Raffle
Please click on the link below to see the letter from the Friends of Rowlands Gill about prizes and donations for the upcoming Christmas raffle to help raise funds for the school. FORGS letter raffle donations
RGPS School Book Club – Raised £19.89
Many thanks for all the support with the new online RGPS School book club which closed on 6th November. We raised a total of £99.43 which means the school has £19.89 to spend on books. Thank you to everyone who ordered and keep your eyes out for the next one to be...