CatJH's Reviews

An outstanding, Montessori-trained childminder

Inayah is an outstanding, Montessori-trained childminder, a pure gem. I felt so lucky to have found her to look after our daughter. Our daughter started with Inayah just before she turned one and we've been there for nearly a year now. For Inayah, children’s personal social and emotional development is of the highest priority. She has extensive background information from parents to successfully meet children’s needs upon arrival. My daughter settled incredibly quickly, which was a great relief to me as I dreaded the thought of dealing with a child who would cry at drop-offs. My daughter has thrived in Inayah 's nurturing, homely environment, where she made huge progress in her communication, social skills, personal hygiene and motor skills as she started walking just before her first birthday. Inayah places a strong emphasis on increasing my daughter's language and communication skills, and made such great efforts in speaking French to our daughter with her two daughters and her husband Artan.
Inayah clearly made all her effort to make my daughter feel safe and confident, cared for and comfortable. It was delightful to see my daughter come back home happy and bouncing out, singing new songs and learning new English words. My daughter, her daughter and the other children Inayah takes care of love going to the Pimlico Toy Library, Heartbeeps, the parks, the London Zoo. They even had the opportunity to go to Margate and other places outside London for a day out!
Inayah understands how children learn and has extremely high expectations of them. She provides high-quality resources such as organising Montessori activities, reading activities and uses learning opportunities to the maximum to enhance children's play. She plans her days very carefully and an exceptionally broad and rich curriculum, to provide stimulating and creative experiences.
My daughter constantly developed new skills and consolidated others which helped her to be a fulfilled child. Inayah is an expert in supporting young children to develop the self-help skills and confidence for the next stage in their learning. She provides children with a very broad range of opportunities to be independent and autonomous. For example, all children master new skills, such as discarding litter in the bin, putting on their socks and shoes, and washing their hands independently. Inayah is an outstanding role model and my daughter thrived on Inayah’'s energetic praise to further boost their self-esteem.
We communicated with Inayah extremely well, and Inayah was very understanding anytime I had to deal with difficult situations at work and with family. Her care is exceptional and the progress my daughter made has exceeded my expectations: my daughter is becoming a bilingual person and is extremely intelligent thanks to her creative activities and stimulation. My daughter's use of the English language is now strong. She very quickly learnt new words in English and can communicate using Makaton. I was encouraged to support children's learning at home and I have learned a lot as a new mother on how to raise my daughter while adopting a positive parenting style. Inayah engaged with me to support my daughter's learning and education to a very high level. Finally, Inayah has an excellent understanding of her responsibilities to protect my daughter from harm. She is very familiar with local safeguarding procedures and knows who to contact should she have any concerns about the welfare of children in her care.
I find it hard to express how grateful I am that we found Inayah and consider us to be very fortunate. We had to leave Inayah since we were relocated outside London and we are heartbroken to leave her. Anyone who is lucky enough to secure a place with her will have such a great experience.I cannot recommend her enough - Inayah's is an absolutely brilliant setting for your little ones!

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by CatJH about Inayah93 on 23/07/2023

Response by Inayah93 on 23/07/2023:

Dear Cathie,
I thank you so much for giving me your world and trusting me! I absolutely loved spending time with Anya and watching her grow into a confident little person. She will be deeply missed and I can’t wait to get updates on her journey! I wish you all the best! X