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
English – non chronological reports
In 5/6A we have been working hard to write interesting and informative non-chronological reports all about the mysterious world of Pandora. We have worked on a number of writing skills such as relative clauses, parentheses and subject specific vocabulary! Non...
Home Learning Tips for Parents
I think all of us would agree that home schooling is tricky at times and children don't always want to do their school work, which can lead to frustration and stress - this is what happens in my house at least! One reason can be that children see a big list of things...
Hands On Approaches to Well-being
Gateshead Psychology Service have been sharing some great resources and sources of information, one of which is this link to a CAMHS (Children and Adult Mental Health Services) website. It has loads of useful information about how to support children and young people...
Safer Internet Day is on the 9th February 2021…
We have been learning about how to stay safe online...
Birdwatching
In Early Years we love going outside and looking at the birds we see and are very fortunate enough to see the beautiful Red Kites often flying above us. We all got involved in RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch and we all went out to see what birds we could see in our gardens...
Spring Online Book Club now open for orders
World Book Day 2021 is on Thursday 4th March and to celebrate it, Rowlands Gill Primary School will be hosting an online book fair. As we are unable to welcome everyone on-site at the moment due to COVID restrictions, we will be hosting our book fair virtually so that...
Cross-stitching
Today, in our life skills lesson, we have been learning how to do a running stitch and a cross stitch.
Helping out
Looks like one of our children had a very keen pet to help him write his story mountain. I think they were both doing a great job!
Making Mountains
This week we have been planning our stories. To help us we have been using a story mountain. This helps us to think carefully about the different parts of the story- we even added ideas for dialogue.
Getting Arty
We have been learning about the artist David Hockney. Look how he inspired us!
Marshmallow 3D shapes!
In our maths lesson today, we were counting how many vertices there are on 3D shapes (that's a tricky word for 'corners'). To help us, we used cocktail sticks for long sides, matchsticks for short sides and marshmallows for vertices and we made a range of 3D shapes....
What and where is the UK? 1.2M Geography
The children have been learning about where the UK is in the world and what countries it makes up. They have worked hard today to explain where the UK is using all of their Geography vocabulary and knowledge. We will be going over this in the coming weeks.