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
Sequencing
Today, as part of our Explorers topic, we have been looking at some significant events in the history of flight. We have then sequenced these events, using the sources to help us to deduce which event happened first, explaining our choices.
Letter for parents in relation to the Department of Education and the Corona Virus.
Please see the attached letter and do not hesitate to contact school if you have any queries. Coronavirus 12.3.20.docx Coronavirus_advice_for_educational_settings_poster (1)
What is a story ending?
Over the next week, we are going to be writing a new ending for our story, Grandad's Island. We are going to be changing the habitat that Grandad and Syd visit. In preperation of this, we have been looking at the purpose of a story 'ending' and we have been matching...
Pattern spotting with sound
The children have been learning about sound and what part of the body we hear with. They have been pattern spotting with what affects sound on the playground.
Palm Sunday
In R.E, we were exploring the narrative of Palm Sunday. The children were planning an exciting visit from a Royal visitor!
Terrific Towers!
Recently, we spent an afternoon learning what it meant to be an engineer and building our team work skills. Our marshmallow and spaghetti towers were really something!
One small step for man…
The children in 1/2M have been learning about the moon landing and Neil Armstrong so we've decided to present our findings in this fun way. IMG_0691 from Una mitchell on Vimeo. IMG_0690 from Una mitchell on Vimeo. IMG_0689 from Una mitchell on Vimeo. IMG_0687 from Una...
Music movers
In music today, we were using our bodies to move to the rhythm of the music. Mrs Edmondson was particularly good!
Scratch Wizards
Today, we have been using an application called Scratch. We have really enjoyed using our coding skills to create interactive characters of our own. This week, we managed to include some sound effects and attach our own recordings to our characters!
Spring has Sprung
Spring has sprung in Early Years. We have enjoyed playing outside giving all the toys and equipment a good clean. Flowers are popping up all over and we have been painting our own daffodils and spring flowers that we have seen to add to our Spring display. We have...
Disgusting pea soup recipes
As part of our World Book Day celebrations, we were learning all about 'The Pea and the Princess'. We worked as a whole class to write some disgusting recipes which involved peas. We wrote one disgusting ingredient, folded our paper then passed it on to the next pair....
World book day
In key stage one we focused on the 'Pea and the Princess', which we found very funny as it was written from the Pea's point of view! We had a fabulous day reading, writing, role playing and creating pieces of art about our book. Happy world book day!