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.

New Pupil Admission Form

 

Our Class Blog

Robot Programming

In Computing, we have been writing instructions for the Beebots and predicting the direction they will travel in. We have been practising debugging algorithms to get our robot to travel to chosen destinations on a map.

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What time is it, 2S?

In Maths, we made our own clocks help us to tell the time to the nearest five minutes. We have used lots of key vocabulary in our lessons such as minute hand, hour hand, clockwise, minutes past and minutes to.

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Lily and the Snowman

In English, we have been using digital literacy to inspire us to write creative recounts of Lily and the Snowman. We built our own snowmen and made shadow puppets to immerse ourselves into the story. We have also worked hard to include key features in our writing such...

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Moving Vehicles

Year 6 have been taking part in a vehicle project funded by Primary Engineers and the Reece Foundation. They measured and cut wood to create frames then used triangles to strengthen them. They then used pulleys and small electrical circuits to connect the batteries...

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Where is Australia?

In Geography, we are learning about Australia and how it is different to where we live. We started the unit by using atlases to identify the continents and oceans of the world. We then discussed how Australia is both a continent and a country. We are looking forward...

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Y5/6 – Basketball

Thankyou to Thorp Academy and their sports leaders who hosted the year 5 and 6 basketball tournament yesterday! All of the games were played in a lovely competitive spirit throughout the tournament. There was some great talent on show with some impressive shots from...

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Travelling in 4 directions

We have been learning about using all 4 directions with the Beebots to navigate around a map. We had to test different commands to form a set of instructions to successfully travel from shape to shape.

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RSPB Bird Watching Week 🦅

Nursery children have took part in RSPB Bird Watching Week. We have listened to lots of stories, sang 2 Little Dickie Birds. We made bird feeders to feed the birds in our nursery garden, practising threading skills placing Cheerios onto pipe cleaners. To observe the...

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Brilliant Basketball

  The Year 3 and 4 Basketball team were outstanding recently when we visited Whickham to compete against other local schools. Their passion, skills and great sporting attitude meant that they came third overall! It was so much fun!

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