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
Planting seeds
We enjoyed planting runner beans, using magnifying glasses to look closely at what they looked like. We know that our plants need water and sunlight to help them to grow. We also learned that plants need holes in the bottom of their pots to allow the extra water to...
Parts of a plant
We have been learning about the structure of plants this week. Did you know that a stem holds a plant up and carries water from the roots to the leaves? We also looked at trees in our school grounds. We discussed whether the parts of a tree had the same name as the...
What is a plant?
Miss Salloway gave the children different objects to sort into two groups - plants and not plants. The children discussed what makes something a plant and shared brilliant ideas about where plants come from. Miss S even gave the children the challenge of deciding...
Toys from the past
This week we have enjoyed learning about toys from the past. We received a Box of Delight from the Discovery Museum which was filled with 20th century toys and we thoroughly enjoyed finding out what was inside. We found out lots of facts about the toys and then we...
Balancing!
The children in nursery have been practising their balancing skills. They used tyres and wooden boards to walk along, and then practised jumping with 2 feet together into the tyres. The children explored different ways in which they could moves across the wooden...
Reception makes pizza
Following on from our ‘Little Red Hen’ story we explored the text ‘Little Red Hen makes Pizza’ but unlike her we didn’t put worms on our pizza’s just delicious toppings. The next day we used our recall skills and sequenced pictures as a group talking through the...
What can we discover about the Stone Age?
Creating digital art
In Computing we have been learning to use different tools such as paint, erase, fill and shape to create digital paintings. We then completed a challenge to create a piece of work in the style of Piet Mondrian.
Storyboard idea animations – video content.
Last the children worked on a short storyboard for their animation and this week they have put it into action. Well done kids. Watch the videos below.
Partitioning numbers
We have been focussing on place value in our Maths lessons. We know that to partition numbers means to split into smaller parts. Today we looked at how many different ways we could partition a two-digit number. We enjoyed using the base 10 and moving the tens over.
Making numbers
Today we have been focussing on place value, looking at how many tens and ones are in different numbers. We enjoyed physically moving the dienes across the board.
Meet the Teacher 1M
Please follow the link to the slides from our Meet the Teacher event in Year 1. Meet The Teacher 1M.pdf