Michelle
Childminder in Twickenham
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Female Member since Feb 2013 Last Updated Oct 2024 Last Login 06 Nov 2024
My Summary
Long Serving Well Established Childminder, We Have Cared For Over 56 Children In Our Community.
About Me
On the 10th of February 2023, we had an Ofsted Inspection. The report describes our provision as "happy and a place where children thrive, feel safe, and develop warm bonds.
I have been fortunate enough to spend the last 24 years working in the Early Years sector gaining experience from and specializing in many different sub-sectors whilst helping so many families from all walks of life along the way.
Utilizing this experience I have created a secure, stimulating, and accommodating childcare setting for children and infants alike. We ensure the safety and cognitive development of your little ones is our number one priority!
Throughout my years working within the early years sector I have also worked alongside children at pre-schools, for the borough of Hounslow at the children's center, as well as being a registered childminder.
We ensure we always have a personal rapport with our families and children in order to get to know them as a family unit and to include them within our little community.
Together as our community the parents and children participate in the celebrations of marquee times throughout the year for example Easter, Halloween, Eid, Chinese New Year and Christmas. It brings us the utmost satisfaction and pride to be a part of the early years of the children’s lives.
Our setting staff consists of myself and my assistant Jenny and Claire together we help to create a fun environment that provides stimulation, and the best learning experiences through play for our children, we have lots of resources available to improve the children’s motor skills as well as other necessary development phases for your little ones.
We operate a very welcoming, and warm setting and offer a secure child-focused setting with lots of outdoor and indoor activities in accordance to the age/ stage of the children in our care.
We have excellent facilities including; Spacious rooms and a garden with a water play area, sand, a Den, a slide, and an ever-changing tuff sensory tray.
We like to teach our children the importance of being respectful to others as well as encouraging the little ones in our care to; sing, dance, create art, read, cook, dress up, messy play, participate in circle time, understand the importance our feelings and how to express them, become nature detectives, experience sensory play, enhance our imagination and be proud of who we are.
We are extremely fortunate to be surrounded by nature, playgrounds,library, and local groups all within walking distance, we make sure that we make the most of every day and go out to enjoy and appreciate nature and our community!
Our bespoke activities are planned to take into consideration the children’s interests. These activities encourage independence and confidence in our safe stimulating environment. There are plenty of opportunities to play, explore and learn. We follow the EYFS and work very closely with parents and other early years professionals.
Excellent references are available!
Please feel free to contact me for further chat
My Experience
Early Years Practitioner (NVQL4)
Pediatric First Aid
Food and Hygiene in Catering
Safeguarding
Makaton
Cache level 2 in Early Years mental health
I have worked at nurseries, pre-school, playgroups, and children’s centers for 9 years for PACEY (formerly NCMA).
My Qualifications
NVQ L4 in Early years, Pediatric First aid, Food and Hygiene, Makaton, Safeguarding, EYFS local authority ongoing/ updated training.
My Availability
Under 4's Availability from September 2024
Monday to Thursday 8:00 am - 5:30 pm
Friday's 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Full/Part-time spaces for under 4' s
(Limited Spaces available from September 2024)
We offer "Term Time Only", "Full Time" or "Part-Time" contracts.
Wrap-around care (We are now full)
* Trafalgar Infant School Trafalgar school
Parking is available for drop-offs and pick-ups
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My Fees
- Childminding from £8.00 per hour
£8.00 per/hr - (meals/ snacks included )
Gov Funding ,Tax- Free childcare accepted
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
- DBS Check (added 08/05/2018)
- Ofsted Certificate (added 08/05/2018)
Reviews
Below are the latest reviews for Michelle. 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.
The fun, kindness and thought that Michelle and her great team have put into Aiyanah will be with her and us forever. Her cosy environment encourages beautiful friendships between the children. Her outings are fun and interesting and I will miss the wonderful stories of pond dipping, music group and nature walks. I cannot thank her and her team enough for everything she has done for us, the only reason we left was because we moved home. Highly recommend Michelle to anyone wanting a nurturing, interesting, fun start to their early years child care.
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"We are very grateful to have had the opportunity to look after your children. Thank you for your kind, warm words, and most of all, for the wonderful memories you have left behind. While we are saddened to see you go, we are also very happy that you chose us and trusted us to care for your children. Thank you once again. We never say goodbye; see you soon."
Michelle was the first person to care for daughter when I returned to work and she did a fantastic job. Our daughter settled easily with her in her calm and homely childcare setting, and Michelle also provided me alot of support with the transition. We had daily updates from Michelle and saw the range of lovely activities they all got up to. Our daughter developed leaps and bounds and really enjoyed being there - often shaking her head at me when I came to pick her up. We have now moved away from the area and the hardest part of that was that we couldn't continue to send our daughter to Michelle. She was fantastic and looked after our little girl so well! Esther & Mark xx
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Michelle looked after our son during the day from the age of six months and even though he's at school now, he still goes to her for days during the half term (he's now seven). She provides a family environment and he's known many of the kids she has cared for since he was a baby. Her setup is very structured and safe, and her provision of care is excellent. It's a highly creative, stimulating, sensory-packed environment, and the kids are encouraged to develop their skills through a large range of equipment and free-flow, supervised play in her home. She also takes the children to the usual play centres and playgrounds. Her half-term care schedule is very structured around themes - at Easter, for instance, the kids are taken to Heathfield park for arts and craft activities and an Easter egg hunt, and her outings are diverse (woodland detectives in Crane Park, den marking in Strawberry Hill woods etc.). I don't think many other childminders provide quite the same level of diversity in their care and input for kids.
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We have been enjoying Michelle's childminding services since the children were 1 year old so for about 7 years now. Michelle is very responsible, reliable, trustworthy and genuinely caring. She is very affectionate with the children and makes an effort to keep them well entertained whilst recreating a very familiar setting for them in her lovely home. My children consider Michelle an extension of our family and are always happy to spend time at hers. She is an honest, kind-hearted individual who has put our mind at piece with the endless challenges concerning childcare. I would not hesitate to recommend her to anyone looking for an excellent childminder.
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Michelle is a fantastic childminder: warm, caring, creative and flexible. Both my children, who couldn't be more different developmentally or temperamentally, have flourished in her care and love going to her. She really goes the extra mile in supporting and helping children to grow in confidence, and the love and extra help she has given my eldest child in particular transformed his life. My husband and I couldn't be more grateful that she's in our children's lives, and we couldn't recommend her highly enough.
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