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
Working with remainders
Fractions Pizza Party
We have been learning about fractions in our Maths lessons, and what better way to do it than with pizza! In our pizza party lesson, we identified how shapes could be halved into 2 equal parts. We found that the square shaped pizza could be halved in more than one...
Weaving with paper
We have had fun turning a sheet of construction paper into a place mat by weaving. We marked lines, folded and cut slits for weaving. We used a contrast of different coloured paper.
Disgusting science
Animals with different diets delivered some parcels to our classroom. We used our knowledge of carnivores, omnivores and herbivores to identify who the poo belonged to.
Year 5 Proportional Portraits!
In Art, we have been learning about proportion and have learned how to change the size of what we are drawing to make it appear closer or further away!
Nursery go to Forest School
We had a brilliant time at forest school, building a fire and toasting marshmallows over the fire. We also learnt about fire safety to help us stay safe. We played some different games on the field and could choose from lots of activities such as; digging, den...
Do bigger ears affect the volume of the sound?
How can we compare a variety of common animals?
We have been exploring the different animals groups in 1R and finding out why different animals belong in certain groups. Year 1 were able to talk about the specific features certain animals have from different groups using the venn diagram.
Writing Instructions
This half term we have enjoyed reading Traction Man and finding out about all of his important missions and outfits for every occasion! We have been writing instructions for 'How to Put on Clothes' based on one of Traction Man's outfits. Can you guess which one? We...
Stop, Look, Listen, Think.
We have been learning how to keep safe when crossing the road. We know that we should look for a crossing first, but if one isn't there we need to find a safe, clear place to cross. We then need to stop at the kerb, look both ways for traffic, listen for traffic and...
Christmas has arrived in Reception
It was very tricky spreading out the branches and threading the baubles onto the tree but it helped us to work our fingers in small spaces. Whilst not all of us have our trees up at home yet we shared our family Christmas traditions. We loved hearing all of the...
Getting to Grips with Handball
We have been learning to play handball in PE. It's a fast sport! We have been learning to catch and throw accurately and with correct technique. It's a real skill to move into spaces, to create opportunities for our team mates to catch the ball and score a goal.