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
Exploring using maps
We located Rowlands Gill on the map and then identified the features we could locate on the map in the surrounding areas. We found the River Derwent, shops, church, houses, school and lots more!
Abstract Art at its Best!
Over the past few weeks the children have been learning about surrealism, magic realism and abstract art through the artist Joan Miro. They have studied a variety of paintings and sculptures, and discussed their ideas and opinions on his artwork. They then went on to...
Celebrating Chinese New Year 🐉
This week we have learning all about Chinese New Year. and learning about new cultures and celebrations. We have listened to stories including Peppa Pig's Chinese New Year, went on a dragon hunt, made lanterns and enjoyed a Chinese banquet.
Chinese New Year
We enjoyed celebrating Chinese New Year. We cleaned ready for the new year, made lanterns, did some dragon dancing and set up our own Chinese restaurant. We even wrote our name in Chinese writing. What a super time we had!
Celebrating Chinese New Year
To celebrate seeing in the year of the Wood Dragon we cleaned, decorated our home corner, set up and ate in our Chinese restaurant and practised our cutting skills by making lanterns. We celebrated a full day in red, did you know it is a lucky colour? We also danced...
Our Eco Garden Transformation- Thank You Mr and Mrs Allchin
A huge thank you to our volunteers, Mr and Mrs Allchin, who have been sprucing up our eco garden, ensuring all weeds are removed and planting a range of new bulbs and plants. The bulbs are beginning to sprout, as we approach the spring and the children can't wait to...
Let’s Go Shopping
Some of the nursery children went to our local Tesco to buy some delicious food for our Chinese Banquet.
Internet Safety Day
We joined the assembly completing challenges on how to stay safe and then went outside and played a game thinking about our reactions and emotions in different scenarios.
Clay techniques
We used play dough to practice different techniques we could use to model the clay with such as twisting, imprinting, rolling and shaping.
Classifying and tasting foods
We sorted fruits and vegetables in to different groups, classifying them by different things such as colour and taste. We then looked at the different areas of our tongue that taste foods and tried foods from each group. Lots of us found the lemon very sour!
Forest School
We have finished our week with a fantastic afternoon at forest school- cooking on the fire, den building, tyre rolling and lots more.
The Messy Magpie
The children listened to the story The Messy Magpie linked to our bird watching topic. When the children arrived in nursery the following morning, they realised the messy magpie must have flew through an open window and made a very big mess! The children then sorted...