Katie243
Childminder in Elmbridge
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Female Member since Mar 2015 Last Updated Oct 2024 Last Login 01 Nov 2024
My Summary
About Me
I am an OFSTED registered childminder, I work with my husband as a childminding team, we offer a safe, fun, nurturing environment with lots of learning opportunities within our garden and playroom. We find the children thrive outdoors and love exploring and going on daily adventures together. We have excellent references and an outstanding OFSTED report. We have many families who we have worked with for a very long time as they grow their families seeing their children grow from babies to school age. Please contact me for more details
My Experience
I have two children of my own, boy born Oct 13 and Girl born Jan 15. I am also blessed to have 4 god children. I can provide good references from my families I have worked with. The learning and development of each individual child is supported by the EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage). I like to keep the children busy and active, the children I care/d for have always enjoyed coming and they all have made special friendships together. I like to keep some familiar routine within the week so that the children gain the most of of these experiences, enabling them to gain confidence and make relationships. We love exploring new environments and learning about the world, we are very lucky to live in such a beautiful place with lots of easily available beautiful places to visit and explore. My home has a well stocked play room and garden giving the children the opportunity to explore all the areas of learning and development. And we love getting messy with sensory and arts and craft play.
My Qualifications
CRB/ DBS
FIRST AID
OFSTED REGISTERED
Promoting positive behaviour
Safe guarding
Food hygiene
Autism awareness
Anxiety course
My Availability
Places available Monday - Thursday
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| Before School | no | no | no | no | no | no | no |
| Morning | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no | no |
| Afternoon | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no | no |
| After School | no | no | no | no | no | no | no |
| Evening | no | no | no | no | no | no | no |
| Overnight | no | no | no | no | no | no | no |
| Last Updated: 08/10/2024 | |||||||
My Fees
- Childminding from £8.00 per hour
Competitive rates.
My Local Schools
This childminder has not yet informed us whether or not they provide any drop off or pick up services at local schools.
My Ofsted Inspections
The inspection grades below have been obtained from the Ofsted website based upon the registration number the childminder has provided to us. You should verify this information yourself prior to using the childminder.
My Documents
- Training Certificate: Safeguarding 21-23 (added 15/03/2022)
- First Aid Certificate: First aid 21-24 (added 15/03/2022)
- Inspection Report: OFSTED INSPECTION OUTSTANDING 2021 (added 06/11/2021)
- Training Certificate: Equality & Diversity (added 10/10/2020)
- Training Certificate: speech and language development (added 10/10/2020)
- Training Certificate: Curriculum, OFSTED New Framework (added 10/10/2020)
- Training Certificate: Food Hygene (added 10/10/2020)
- Training Certificate: Child Neglect (added 10/10/2020)
- Training Certificate: Autism Awareness (added 10/10/2020)
- Training Certificate: Being a Key Person (added 10/10/2020)
- Training Certificate: Prevent Duty (added 10/10/2020)
- Training Certificate: Online Safety (added 10/10/2020)
- Training Certificate: FGM (added 10/10/2020)
- Training Certificate: GDPR (added 10/10/2020)
- Training Certificate: mental wellbeing in children (added 10/10/2020)
- Training Certificate: Promoting Positive Behaviour (added 10/10/2020)
- Training Certificate: infection prevention and control (added 10/10/2020)
- Training Certificate: CPD Training - Risk Assessment (added 10/10/2020)
- Training Certificate: CHIP course (added 10/10/2020)
- Training Certificate: safeguarding 2018-2021 (added 10/10/2020)
- DBS Check (added 10/10/2020)
- First Aid Certificate: first aid 2018-2021 (added 10/10/2020)
- Ofsted Certificate (added 06/10/2020)
Reviews
Below are the latest reviews for Katie243. Please note that reviews represent the subjective opinions of other Childcare.co.uk users and not of Childcare.co.uk. Parents must carry out their own checks and references on childcare providers to ensure that they are completely happy before enaging in the use of their services.
We feel so grateful that we found Katie & James' childminding services when we did. After spending a very long time looking in the area at both nursery and childminding settings (but with out much luck) we immediately felt assured that our son would thrive in their setting after meeting with K&J.
Our son was immediately comfortable with them (which was amazing seeing he was a lock down baby and had never spent time away from us prior to being at their setting) and from the get go we felt at ease knowing he was in their care.
We love the vast and interesting range of activities they do at home (inside and in their well equip garden), the outdoor fun they have at playgroups, in the woodlands, playgrounds and more , the daily updates/photos and the intimate setting. His development (particularly speech and eating/trying new foods) has improved drastically in the last year and Katie and James have been so attentive with helping him thrive.
We truly feel so grateful to have found them and at the same time very sad knowing this chapter is coming to an end as our little one prepares for school!
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I highly recommend Katie & James. They are amazing with the children and very caring. Their home is lovely and welcoming and my daughter absolutely loves both of them.
Besides all the activities they do at home with the children they regularly take them to the park and to so many other lovely outings. We always receive photos and updates and are very pleased with how much our daughter has developed herself.
Katie and James have always been so supportive since the first settling in days and whenever our daughter needed most. We are very grateful to have found them and reassured that our daughter is well looked after.
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Katie and James have looked after our two daughters over a 7 year period and we could not have asked for more from them. We have always been absolutely blown away with the level of care, love and support they have given. It really is a home from home setting, and both girls settled quickly, formed strong relationships with Katie and James and with the other children, and have loved their time there. The quality of care given to the children when young, the aid in learning and development as they grow, the variety of activities (especially time spent outside exploring all year round), the quality of the food and the safety and warmth the children feel is second to none. We get regular updates and photographs through the day of what they are up-to and can see how much fun they are having.
Both our daughters really love Katie and James and feel part of their family. It is going to be heartbreaking for us and them when our youngest leaves to go to school!
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I cannot reccommend Katie and James highly enough. Our daughter has been with them from 11 months old and will be leaving to start full time nursery in September, and to say it will be an emotional departure is an understatement. Our daughter loves going to them more than I think she enjoys being at home! She has thrived in their nurturing and loving environment they create for the kids, and I am always so impressed with the endless activities, outings and special occasions they do for the children. Celebrating birthdays and holidays throughout the year, while making sure we are constantly updated with photos and communication on her progression, development, and general wellbeing. They have become like a second family for her, are so extremely patient and welcoming, and the friendships she has made at their setting not only with the children in their care but other childminders they meet up with to allow the children to play and meet with other children has been wonderful to see.
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Katie and James make the perfect team! We have been thrilled with their childminding skills, their creativity in keeping the littles ones engaged and their pure joy and energy and all nature walks and exploration.
My son has been there since he is one and he absolutely loves it there. They have great facilities with lots of toys and games and I love that they take the kids out so much to parks and zoos and they keep it very interesting . They do homemade great food and takes lot of effort in making birthdays very special and celebrates all the festivals .
I am at complete ease when my son is with them as I know he is happy and safe and is fully occupied and is having fun !
We would happily recommend Katie and James to anyone looking for their little ones to be taken of by the best !
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