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

Sequence sounds in Scratch programming

Sequence sounds in Scratch programming

Check out the children's scratch projects to sequence sounds. The children have programmed their instruments to play twinkle twinkle little star. You may need to press the instrument or the space bar to get them started enjoy.

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The Arctic Circle

The Arctic Circle

We used atlases and globes to find out where the Arctic Circle is in the world and then identified the countries that it covers. We know that the Arctic Circle only covers parts of these countries and we showed this on our maps.

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Mystery Readers

Mystery Readers

We have loved welcoming more parents into our class to share stories with us. We have enjoyed lots of different texts including ‘Cops and Robbers’ and ‘The Giant Jam Sandwich’.

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Food Chains

Food Chains

We have been learning about food chains in Science. We know that producers are usually plants that make their own food and are found at the start of a food chain. We discussed  which animals were prey and which were predators. We then worked as a group to organise the...

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World book week

World book week

This year in EYFS we chose the story ‘The Perfect fit’ to support our mathematical knowledge and PSED development. We took part in a shape hunt, a shape train game/dancing, making shape aliens and enjoyed hearing all about everyone’s favourite tests as just like the...

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Technology from the past

Technology from the past

Year 1 had lots of fun exploring different items of technology from the past including old phones, a gramophone, a cassette player, cassettes and records. We worked out what they were for and compared them to objects from the present day. We even had a little dance to...

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Safer Internet Day 3M

Safer Internet Day 3M

On Safer Internet Day, we asked the question  'What do you do online?' and 'How do keep safe online?' The children made animations to show what they do online and they asked each other questions to make soundbites about how they keep safe online or what they...

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World Book Day

World Book Day

This year in EYFS we chose the story ‘The Perfect fit’ to support our mathematical knowledge and PSED development. We took part in a shape hunt, created pictures using 2D shapes, explored 3D shapes and created some amazing towers!  We talked about how the triangle in...

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World Book Day

World Book Day

Year 1 and 2 had lots of fun on World Book Day exploring the text ‘The Kindest Red’. We explored the importance of being kind and made pledges of kindness to others and to our world. We made origami hearts with key words on too. We followed Faizah’s lead from the...

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Listen to the Sounds of the Steel Pans

Listen to the Sounds of the Steel Pans

This year the children in Year 5  have been learning to play the steel pans with help from a great teacher, Lizzie.  It has been a fabulous opportunity to look at a different  musical instrument and play some great tunes. The steel pan originated in Tobago and...

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World Book Day – Billy’s Bravery

World Book Day – Billy’s Bravery

Today on World Book Day, we read a story of Billy’sBravery who wanted to go to school dressed as Nature Girl. It was our job to persuade him to do it and the children really did a great job doing it. They created their own superheroes and we read lots of stories. What...

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World Book Day

World Book Day

Year 6 had a fabulous WBD! 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. Our favourite was acting out the plane crash scene from the book!

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