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
Magnetic Recycling Machines
The children explored magnetism and how it can be useful in the real world for recycling. They then created a sorting machine that used magnetism to separate different metals.
Mystery Reader 3M
The kids absolutely loved their visit from our Mystery Reader. Mum brought cuddly friends who taught us some more French and we started reading 'The hundred mile an hour dog' aka Streaker which we are finihing off with the class. Thank you so much for our visit.
Fractions Pizza Party
We had a pizza party today, which involved looking at different pizza shapes and investigating if they could be halved and how many ways we could half them. We also recognised that 2 quarters is equivalent to one half.
Paralympics Festival at Gateshead Leisure Centre
It’s Christmas Time !
Christmas has well and truly arrived in nursery !
Using a mouse
We worked hard in computing, logging on to the laptops, using the mouse to design our own pieces of artwork and then logging off. We used the paintbrush, rubber, fill tool and undo button to help us create our pictures.
Newsletter 28.11.22
Please see the attached newsletter with a reminder of all key information for Christmas activities, as well as a reminder about photo day this Wednesday. https://rowlandsgillprimary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Newsletter-28.11.22.pdf
Poppy Appeal Funds Raised – £389.62
We raised an amazing £389.62 selling poppy appeal items in school this year. Thank you for all your support in helping us to raise funds for the Poppy appeal in this way.
Goal, Come on England !
World Cup fever has took over nursery. We have been practising our ball skills trying to score as many goals as possible. The children have looked at the different countries around the world that are in the competition, using a globe to locate them, then recreated...
Helping the blind
We read the story of Jesus healing the blind man and thought about how we could help people who are blind. We wore blindfolds to see how difficult it was to complete tasks whilst blindfolded.
A meal of thanks
Today Reception celebrated the American thanksgiving, learning about the American traditions then comparing it to traditions of our own. All of the children were thankful for something that meant a lot to them.
Shapes
We have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes in Maths. We have enjoyed working practically throughout the unit by taking part in a shape hunt, then using lolly sticks and string to help us count sides and vertices of 2D shapes. We have used mirrors to find out if...











