Rae Rae

My Summary

My Experience

Babysitting within the family: I would babysit on Fridays and weekends after school. Often I would look after my little cousin who is now 7 but I've looked after her since she was 4 years old. My responsibilities looking after her were to pick her up from school, help her complete school work, cook dinner and for some activities we would do drawing, arts and crafts or baking. I have also helped out my aunty with her newborn twins while she went to work. I would feed them bathe them when need and changed them.


Babysitting for outside the family: I've looked after a couple's two children. I began looking after them in 2021 soon after the covid restrictions had lifted. My role was to pick them up from school at 3:15 and take them to mine till their parents finished work at 5:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. My role was also to provide snacks and activities for them to do. Their parents did not want them to watch a lot of television so I improvised a lot by teaching them how to play board games. I also did activities such as making paper dolls so the girl could make outfits for them and built many Lego cities for their boy to play with. To keep them more engaged I created a sticker chart to practice good listening. If they had done a task like cleaning up they would be rewarded with a sticker. After a row of 5 stickers, they could earn a prize that they requested for example a colouring book. The two children I babysat were 4 and 2 at the time and I stopped babysitting them when they were 7 and 4½ because they moved houses.

Tutor: I have tutored my little cousin who is currently 7. She had been struggling with Spelling so I helped to tutor her on the weekends for 4 weeks. Since her mum worked early hours of the morning I would arrive the night before and plan a day of learning games. I would create matching letters to the word and encourage her to read at least three books throughout the day. If we had gone to the park I would create a story for her and created fake problems where she had to spell a word for the character to continue the story. This was quite effective because she has now made so much improvement and gets praised for the spelling she practices on her own.

Volunteering: I volunteered at a children's playgroup called Oasis. I volunteered there from October 2022 to March 2023. Here I worked with children from the ages of 5- 12 from 3:45- 6 on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 10- 4. My role was to create activities for the children to do and monitor them when they would go outside to play. Sometimes, I would help bake some recipes with the children for example cupcakes and I enjoyed the experience.

My Qualifications

I have verified basic first aid training and dbs check.

My Availability

My availability:
Monday: Before school and mornings
Wednesday: Evenings
Thursday: Before school and mornings
Friday: Mornings, afternoon, afternoon school and evenings
Saturday and Sunday: All day

My Fees

• Babysitting from £11.50 per hour