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
Sequencing our story
We have enjoyed reading our new story for this half term - The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad. We have contributed to class discussions about what it means to be proud of something or someone. This week we began to sequence our story to prepare us for our big write...
Division
This week in Maths, we have been learning about division in. We know that to divide means to share into equal groups. We started by dividing bean bags into 2 equal groups and we recognised that this was the same as halving. We then went on to divide counters into 5...
Athletics silver medals!! Congratulations!
Wow! What an afternoon we have had at the Gateshead indoor athletics competition. 20 children from year 5/6 were selected to take part in this competitive event, competing in track and field events. Each school was working as a team, rather than individual events. The...
Visit to TESCO
Thank you very much to Rowlands Gill TESCO for donating the contents of our shopping list for our ‘Bonfire night chocolate breadstick sparklers’ cookery. While there we explored the different aisles, looking at how things were stored and the cost of items. We had lots...
What a fantastic surprise!
Book Fair
Don’t forget the book fair is open each day from 8:30am-9:00am and again from 3:15pm-4:00pm. We look forward to seeing you there. .
Identifying Trees
We went on a tree hunt in our school grounds and used their leaves to identify them. We know that a deciduous tree begins to lose its leaves in Autumn but an evergreen tree keeps its leaves all year round.
Where in the world is the UK?
We have been using atlases and globes to find the continents and oceans of the world. We also identified that the United Kingdom is a country within Europe.
Families North East Magazine
Please click the following link to the November and December issue of Families Magazine. ...
Spooky stories
The children have listened very carefully to our Halloween stories. First we listened to Pumpkin Soup, the children then explored cut up pumpkins, feeling the different textures and made their own pumpkin soup. Then we listened to one of our favourite stories, Room...
1M Forest School
We thoroughly enjoyed Forest School, building obstacle courses and hunting for different leaves and mini beasts. It was quite windy but we had lots of fun.
Who is my special person?
In Year 2 we have been learning about Relationships in RE. We have learning, who our own important people are and what makes them special to us and why we value them. For Christians, we have been learning that Jesus is an important person and that Christians believe...









