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
Sign Language Week
To celebrate Sign Language Week, we joined an online British Sign Language lesson this afternoon with Signature Deaf. We thought about the importance of BSL for the Deaf community and how some people use it as their main way of communicating.The children were so...
Heel and Toe – All Ability Bike Ride
We have been given information for our families to join the second All Ability Bike Ride for Heel and Toe Children’s Charity on Sunday 11th June at Derwenthaugh Country Park, Swalwell. Last year’s event was amazing! Heel & Toe raised a whopping £10,120 for...
Science Week : Pollution
The children in nursery listened to the story Clean Up, learning all about pollution. We then went to save the water animals formt he plastic pollution in our water tray.
Red nose maths
The Transfiguration of Jesus
Science Week – Skittle Rainbows 🌈
The children in nursery were experimenting with colour and water. First they made a circle with the skittles and carefully added water. The children observed the colours draining from the skittles to create a rainbow effect. It was great fun! 🌈
Looking after our environment
We were inspired by our story ‘clean up’ to go out and clean up our own environment to take care of the animals and nature.
Geographical differences between Spain and the UK using maps
Science Week – Hot Chocolate Stirrers
To start our week of experiments, the children in nursery made chocolate stirrers for all the lovely mams as a special gift Mothers Day. We discussed how the chocolate was originally a solid but when we melted it, it became a liquid. The children counted out 5...
Snapchat – New Parental Controls
Snapchat have updated Family Center again, this time adding controls that block 'sensitive' and 'suggestive' content from viewing by under 18's. To enable this feature, parents can toggle on the 'Restrict Sensitive Content' filter within Snapchat's Family Center and...
Book Fair
Book Fair - Monday 13th to Thursday 16th March This year we will be holding our Book Fair in the Main Entrance from 8.30am - 9.00am and 3.15pm - 3.45pm. You will be able to browse the books and arrange to buy or order at the fair. You will also be able to make use of...
World Book Day 2023
We have had a fantastic WBD in year 5! We have taken part in a range of activities such as drama, art and design, poetry and writing all linked to 'The Explorer' by Katherine Rundell. We also got pretty competitive in our 100 word challenge. Isla even managed the full...