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
Mystery Readers… who are you?
Reception love finding out who our Mystery Reader’s are. After each session we act out elements of the story either through role play, building the scenes in the construction or art activities we love having our home grown ups in school.
Celebrating Diwali – The festival of light
The colour explosions filled the classroom from power paint, fireworks to our own Diva lamp.
Can people with longer femurs jump further?
Forest School
We have thoroughly enjoyed our first forest school sessions of the year! We enjoyed making dens, crafting, hunting for bugs, helping with the fire and more. We can’t wait to go back after half term!
Super start to our Reception year
As we head off for our half term break we reflected on the start we have made in our first half term in Reception. On top of welcome, phonics and maths time we impress our school grown ups with our knowledge and understanding in our child led learning environments, we...
Music and movement
Each day we enjoy singing and story time where we develop our listening, attention and recall skills. We also listen to and talk in ‘Fred Talk’. This week we learnt a new song with lots of different ways of travelling.
Music Mark Members
We are proud to be Music Mark members and promote a love of music within our school. Our year 5 children are currently learning how to play the steel drums, during weekly, whole class music tuition. This will be extended to year 6 children next term.
Thank you for all of your Harvest donations!
Thank you to everybody who has donated as part of our Harvest Festival celebrations. We have collected lots of food which will be donated to the Pickle Palace at Strathmore Road Church. The Pickle Palace is a ‘Pay as you Feel’ market and local people can visit the...
Duplication and Layering
We’ve been learning how to use duplicated shapes to produce more complex pictures and have made some brilliant images! We’re really skilled at using Google Drawings now and are even using shortcuts like ‘Ctrl D’, ‘Ctrl X’ and ‘Ctrl Z’ to help us work more quickly, as...
Stencil Fun
Last week, we made a giant background on a banner using water-colours. We learned how to blend our colours into each other. This week, we used the stencil we had designed and made to decorate this class banner. We used sponges to stipple and dab paint onto the...
Take a look at our Stone Age tiles…
Creating Patterns
In Nursery we have been looking at repeating patterns and used our autumn objects to recreate different patterns.