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
Paper planes
We made paper planes from our story and threw them around outside to see what verbs we can use to describe how they flew through the air. We then completed a poem about how they move focussing on past tense verbs.
Music Everywhere
This week the children in nursery have been exploring the sounds of the music and creating their own music and songs to dance to. Then, the children made their own instruments including shakers and guitars with a range of materials.
Bikeability
This week, the children in Nursery have enjoyed Bikeability. First, we learnt all about bike safety, why we wear a bike helmet and the parts of the bike. Then we practised moving around and keeping our balance, before building up some speed and practise gliding. The...
Football team
One of our football teams has just finished their tournament league fixtures. They played 3 league tournaments at Winlaton, playing 5 games each round. Our first tournament was a tough one resulting in defeats. This did not dampen our spirits as they continued to...
Adding prefixes to root words
Turns
We have been working hard to learn what whole, half and quarter turns are and how they affect the position of objects. We played ‘Mrs Mobberley says’ with positional direction to practice them.
Learning about inspirational people
We enjoyed the stories our mystery reader chose today, learning about Jane Goodall and why she is inspirational. We discussed some endangered animals and the enjoyed reading a story about racing hamsters.
Chance to Shine Cricket
Today we enjoyed our second cricket session in school. We thoroughly enjoyed having a go at batting and fielding. Miss S was so impressed!
Coronation Celebration – updated link
Updated with the link that works - sorry! Mrs Clarke Please see the attached letter about our Coronation Celebration on Friday 5th May which you are invited to! Please use the link on the letter to let us know your child's lunch option for that day, even if they are...
Wonderful writing
In Reception we love to write within our play using the sounds and skills our teachers model to us.