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
FoRGPS – Buy Your Child’s Class Teatowel
FoRGPS have asked each class to draw a beautiful self portrait's to be printed on a Mothers Day Tea Towel. Each Tea Towel will be £7. The school shop product is linked to each individual child. So please ensure that you place an order on each of your children's...
Science – Investigating rocks
In year 4, we tested to see how permeable, dense and durable different rocks are.
Children’s Mental Health Week 2023
The theme for this year’s Children’s Mental Health Week is ‘Let’s Connect’. Year 2 thought about strategies and things they could do to support their mental health.
What’s that smell?
Today we used our nose to explore objects discussing the different smells and deciding which was our favourite and least favourite.
Happy and healthy minds
This week we have been focusing on different ways to keep happy and healthy minds, including sharing things that that make us happy, discussions around emotions and an active yoga story session.
Researching Tim Peake
In Year 1 we have been using the iPads to research Tim Peake and write down facts about his life and work to use to plan our biographies about him.
Using Beebots
We had lots of fun using the Beebots in Year 1, practising giving them commands and seeing how they travel. We described the directions of travel using forward, backward, left and right.
Filling our bowls
Just like Handa we filled our bowls of our favourite fruit to make milkshakes to deliver to our friends. During our group times we discussed the differences between where we live and where Handa lives in Kenya.
What Do We Know About Pesach?
We have been learning about the story of Moses, his upbringing and his eventual exile from Egypt because of his actions. We have explored what type of character he was, how God chose him to be his messenger, but that he felt unworthy of the task. Through the stories...
Sketching Skylines
In Art, we have enjoyed learning about the artist Stephen Wiltshire who is famous for his detailed skyline drawings. We decided to take our sketchbooks outside and see what it would be like to be Stephen Wiltshire by sketching our school from sight, focusing on lines,...
Forest School Fun
The children in nursery have enjoyed exploring Forest School.
What Do You Need to Stay Healthy?
In our topic this term, Animals Including Humans, we have been investigating the circulatory system, how the hearts works and what effect exercise has on our heart rate. We have also been finding out about the blood and what it transports through the body. Did you...