I started looking for a childminder when my son was 9 months, the first
childminder I rang had no vacancies but recommended Mandy and I am so lucky she did. We started with a few settling in sessions to meet the other
children and Aaron seemed happy straight away however I found it a little
harder and Mandy was great she looked after me as well as Aaron and when I
did eventually start leaving him she sent me regular texts to let me know
how Aaron was and what he was up to which made those initial days so much
easier to get through.

Mandy takes her business very seriously and plans activities for each day a
month in advance, all the activities follow the guidelines of EYFS, her
activities concentrate on the children having fun but also development and
learning and she regularly sets a learning theme for the week e.g spirals -
to endorse this the children looked at the patterns on the inside of a
tree, a jam roll etc. Mandy has a good network of childminders and regularly organises joint ventures - i think Aaron has more friends than me in the village! Aaron loves being at Mandy's so much that it is always a struggle to get him to come home and he always looks forward to going again the next day. Aaron has just started Nursery, a big change for him so to make it easier for him Mandy put a plan together on the run-up to him starting to familarise him to where he was going with visits to the gate and pictures of the inside and she took time to talk to him regularly about what would happen when he started, this made the adjustment for Aaron so much easier.

Mandy is very strict on manners and teaching the children good eating
behaviours and it a credit to her perseverance at times that Aaron now
enjoys a great variety of foods as he is not an adventurous child. Mandy
encourages a loving and fun environment from her own children to the
children that she looks after they all care about each other and treat each other with the greatest respect.

I have been with Mandy for just under 3 years and I couldn't imagine having
any other childminder, she understands Aaron and treats him as the
individual he is and I wouldn't have it any other way. Mandy was rated
Outstanding in her Ofsted review earlier this year and she so deserves it!