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
Families Magazine – July/August Issue
Please see below the link to the latest issue of the Families magazine for your information. July / August Issue
Booking now open for free summer holiday clubs
We have been asked to share this information about free summer holiday clubs with our community. There are 2 great programmes on offer for young people this year. The always popular Brighten the Day programme covers ages 5 to 16 and a specific programme, HAF plus for...
Australian Boomerangs
In Art, we have enjoying learning about aboriginal artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye. We researched her work and used this as inspiration to design and create our own Australian boomerangs. Look at our amazing work!
Phonics Fun
We have worked very hard on our Phonics this year, and had an absolutely great time playing different Phonics games whilst practising all the sounds we have learned.
Practising for Sports Day
In Nursery we are preparing for PE lessons in Reception, and have been going to the hall and practising taking off socks and shoes. We then have been practising throwing, running, balancing and jumping for sports day.
Using different media to paint
Using View Finders
Mystery Reader
We loved having our mystery reader in to visit our class, listening to the story ‘Oi frog’. Thank you for sharing your story with us!
Low Ropes at Gibside
Celebrating Pride
Pride Month it is a great opportunity to teach children from an early age about similarities and differences and the world around them. Additionally, it is a perfect time for children to begin to explore and develop their own self-confidence and self-awareness. In...
Let’s go camping ⛺
The children in Nursery have been learning about new adventures and some of the children wanted to go camping. They made a campsite outside pretending to make a campfire and a tent to sleep in. We then made some maps which included a train ride to the beach, a bus...
Week 2 30 Days Wild
This weeks activities have included sowing some seeds to grow flowers, watching the birds and bees and outdoor Yoga and meditation.