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
Chance to Shine – Cricket
The fabulous Phil from Durham Grassroots Cricket Club came in today for 3M first session of their cricket training. The children absolutely loved their first session and can’t wait for the next.
STEM BUS 3M
3M loved their visit to the STEM bus. They were learning about how dirty water is cleaned. The children used different materials to filter dirty water and they ranked their different materials. They discovered that some materials were good for filtering large...
Science week
Across the week we built our own volcano then used a recipe of mintos and coke to create our own volcanic eruption. We were also lucky to have the STEM bus visit us where we explored the surface of the moon, with moon boots.
Comic Relief
We enjoyed marking Comic Relief by having a non uniform day to donate money and lots of us wearing red. We spoke about why we were fundraising for Comic Relief too.
Comic Relief
Today we learnt all about Comic Relief and Red nose day. We talked about how important it was to support charities and how they help others in our local community as well as across the world.
Science Week : Moon Boots
The children in nursery listened to the story Whatever Next, we then went outside and made our own moon boots to go to the moon. They were quite tricky to balance on and the children showed great resilience and determination to keep trying and balance....
STEM fun
We had a brilliant time visiting the STEM bus, dissecting daffodils and identifying the different key parts (stem, petals and stamen). We then were able to group them according to their parts and investigate them under a microscope and whilst using magnifying glasses.
Mystery Reader
We have loved having another mystery reader in today, exploring different stories with us. We love having people in to share stories with our class and build our love for books.
Sharing our knowledge of the Life of Granny
Year 1 have been busy learning all about the life of Granny, including what technology our parents may have used and the jobs they may have had. We have compared it to the technology we can us now and they jobs we might like to do. We invited Reception to a gallery of...
Forest school
We had lots of fun at Forest school exploring in nature, hunting for worms and discovering ‘dinosaur bones’. We played games with our friends and also created dens from different objects we found.
French Grammar
Year 6 have been learning to use prepositions ...in French!! Check out our videos below:
Newsletter 16th March 2023
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