Wendy is, quite simply, the best childminder you could ever hope to find. She is warm, caring, compassionate, thoughtful, encouraging, dedicated and, above all, kind. She inspires so much confidence in both parents and children alike. Our daughter was with her for two years and we were heartbroken to leave her when we moved away from the area.

Wendy puts a huge amount of effort into coming up with interesting, challenging and exciting things for the children to do each day. She has so many incredible and well-organised resources and our daughter had lots of favourite activities from finding treasure in the colourful rice, to playing with her animal figurines in elaborate gardens, to making biscuits or play-doh or painting garden ornaments and bird boxes. Wendy is incredibly thoughtful in searching for and buying toys and resources that she knows will be of interest to the particular child. For example, our daughter loves the lion king and Wendy would find and print off pictures of the characters for her to colour in.

Wendy is brilliant at meeting up with other childminders and using local resources - she took our daughter to lots of different parks, drop-ins, music classes and activities, like the zoo and library. She writes the most wonderful daily reports of what our daughter has done with her that day - there is so much colourful detail and it is lovely to know what they have been up to. We always enjoyed reading the reports and will hugely miss them.

Wendy is also exceptionally knowledgeable about all things child-related and is very generous with her time in chatting through any issues and offering thoughtful and constructive tips. We have felt very privileged and supported to have her on our side. Our daughter has grown in confidence so much since she started with her.

Our daughter has loved every minute (often asking if she can go to Wendy’s at the weekends) and has made so many wonderful memories. We have never had a moment’s worry about leaving her in Wendy’s exceptional care. We cannot recommend Wendy highly enough and we hope that she will always be in our daughter’s life.

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