We chose Carmen and Marta for our daughter because of the warmth that we immediately felt as soon as we met them. Not only are they incredibly professional, with regular reports and assessments via the Kinderly app, but they are incredibly loving women who nurture and educate our daughter.
We love the size of the setting, two childminders and 6 children, to us, is the perfect combination. Big enough for our daughter to socialise and have friends of all ages, but small enough that she is known incredibly well.
Carmen and Marta organise fantastic activities each day. Activities in the setting include painting, sticking, cutting, play doh, water play, muddy kitchen, loads of toys, themed activities eg for world book day, Halloween, Christmas, they even helped make pancakes on shrove Tuesday. They celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, divali, Australia Day, Earth day etc etc. Recently, they were lucky enough to ‘grow’ caterpillars and watch them turn into butterflies.
Important to us, is the children are out most days, they go to the park, the greengrocers etc and are so well-trained to walk safely. We didn’t have to teach our daughter safety, she knows she has to hold the pram or our hands when crossing the road as they have instilled this in her.
They are fantastic at mixed age groups. Our daughter started at 10 months and adored watching the older kids with their activities whilst she did age appropriate tasks. Now she is one of the older ones and helps the little ones or is taught to gently play or share with them.
We thoroughly recommend Carmen and Marta. In fact, we think they are so great we have signed our (as yet unborn) son up to start with them in a year’s time!

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