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

Christmas has arrived in Reception

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...

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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.

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How does sound travel?

How does sound travel?

We all know that sound travels through the air (a gas), but does it travel through liquids and solids? We investigated how sounds differ depending on the medium (solid, liquid or gas) through which it travels. We then looked at diagrams to explore how the structure of...

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What are directions?

What are directions?

Year 1 have been working on programming instructions on the Bee-Bot's to tell them which direction they need to move in. The class created mazes out of resources from around the room and programmed the Bee-Bot's to move, forwards, backwards, left and right....

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Giving instructions

Giving instructions

In Computing we have been programming the Bee-Bot to change directions depending in the instructions we inputted into it. We were challenged by being given obstacles to negotiate.

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World War Two Carrot Cake

In D.T, we have been making our very own carrot cake- WW2 style! We followed a WW2 recipe which was used during rationing. We used our measuring skills in order to follow a recipe accurately. Even although ingredients were rationed, we still loved the taste of the...

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Net Monsters

Net Monsters

Today we have been working with the nets of 3D shapes. We found it tricky at first- but these 'net monsters' really helped. We have been using our skills to create nets of our own and also using our reasoning skills to explain what mistakes we could spot in some of...

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Making our Crumble-mobiles move!

Making our Crumble-mobiles move!

We've been working hard to get our Crumble vehicles - our Crumble-mobiles! - to move in the directions we want them to.  This hasn't been easy - we've had wheels that needed to go in different directions because the motors were different ways up (!) and also had to...

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Crumble Computing

Crumble Computing

Today we have been learning to programme a turning sequence on our crumbles. We managed to make the crumbles move forward and back. However, crumbles do not have a right and left function so we had to problem solve in order to achieve this. We discovered that in order...

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May The Force Be With You!

May The Force Be With You!

During this half term, Year 6 have been learning about a variety of forces, including gravitational pull and how it affects us.  They have looked at the difference between mass and weight and the units of measure for both.  They now know that if they lived on the...

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