Our daughter has been with Rachel since November 2010 and during this time I have had the opportunity to get to know Rachel and see her professionalism. Rachel has a unique ability to connect with young children whilst setting appropriate rules and boundaries. She cultivates an atmosphere of both learning and fun in her home. She has an incredible selection of toys and carefully rotates and improves them in a way that ensures variety and age-appropriateness. It is apparent that this is so much more than a job for Rachel, she has made childminding a career choice and her passion for it is obvious.


Our daughter has developed at an incredible pace over the last two and a half years and this has undoubtedly been impacted by Rachel’s commitment and consistency. Rachel works hard to ensure that she notices and encourages our daughter in the things that she enjoys as well as encouraging her in the things that she finds harder. Rachel works hard to introduce concepts such as ‘shopping’, ‘cooking’ and ‘the postman’ in a way that the children can relate to and is appropriate for their age. This has really enhanced our daughter's understanding of the world and aided her development. They have been on numerous trips to the farm, the beach and enjoy weekly trips to local toddler groups and places such as RHS Wisley Gardens.

Rachel has encouraged us to do things at home which benefit our daughter on her childminding days and help her to make connections, such as creating photo story books from our holiday, bringing home library books or encouraging her to take toys from home to Rachel’s. Our daughter has loved this and really enjoys talking about things that have happened.

Rachel gives me daily verbal updates on activities and progress, produces a photo-based folder which record the things she has been doing and asks for regular feedback.

Our daughter is always happy to go to Rachel’s house and is always happy when we pick her up. This speaks volumes about how content she is and gives us total peace of mind.

I have no hesitation in recommending Rachel to you.