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
Basketball tournament
Well done to our fantastic basketball team who finished as runners up at the Thorp cluster tournament! Everyone worked amazingly hard in all of the games and supported each other tremendously well. There were some awesome skills on show and even better shots! We came...
Helping the Homeless
Charlotte in 7B has been really worried about the homeless people in Newcastle in the cold weather, so here are some pictures of her spending her pocket money on heat pads, gloves, hats, scarves, food and dog treats for the homeless people in Newcastle. What a kind...
Nothing better than a good book
Bird watching week
This week we have been identifying the features of a bird through different information sources including a bird watch walk. We made a giant birds nest to house us all. [gallery...
Creative minds at 6B Forest School!
6B showed off their creative brains on Friday at Forest School! We made dens, a 'launcher', a rope swing (this was very popular!) and also some great bird feeders. There was also a dancing session! At either end of the session, we played two games of 'Sharks and...
Parent Governor Vacancy
We have one Parent governor vacancy which we need to fill as soon as possible. Rowlands Gill Primary School has always aimed for a partnership with parents which undoubtedly brings great benefits to the children. One of the most significant ways you can help in...
Parent Consultation: Extending School Hours
Please see below the letter from Mrs Clarke regarding extending school hours. https://rowlandsgillprimary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/parent-consultation-to-extend-the-school-day-27.1.2023.pdf
Art
In art, we took digital photos inspired by, David Hockney. We took photographs from around the school and made a collage for our display!
RSPB Bird Watching Week
The children in nursery have taken part in the RSPB Bird watching week. They have found out about lots of new birds and their habitats. The children created their own birds using clay and made bird feeders to hang in the nursery yard.
Paper Mâché
Today in Art, year 6 started the process of making their own Mayan masks using paper Mâché and balloons. The technique was modelled to them before starting their own. Children ripped up pieces of kitchen roll and carefully dipped it in the glue before layering...
Tasty Fruit Salad
We all thoroughly enjoyed making our fruit salads today. We followed our plan and practised chopping the fruit using the bridge hold and claw grip. Our favourite part was tasting our creations! We were able to evaluate our work by thinking about which fruit was easier...
Dance
Year 4 thoroughly enjoyed their dance unit in PE. In each lesson we focused on a different type of stimulus to help with our movement and creativity. We were really inspired by the likes of Pinocchio and Alice in Wonderland. Each lesson our aim was to be able to...