Carmen And Marta

The perfect start

Our daughter started with Carmen and Marta as she turned 1. From the very first day she ran into their warm setting with a smile on her face and excited to make friends, learn and play.

She was lucky to be in a wonderful group or children who all became very close. The setting was a home from home but also somewhere she leant manners, refined her fine motor skills and found a passion for reading and language which far exceeded our expectations.

Carmen, Marta and their team go out of their way to create a compassionate, safe and disciplined environment that nurtures expression, learning and fun. Our daughter was set up brilliantly for pre-school and we can't recommend highly enough.

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by Susie about Carmen and Marta on 14/10/2023

Wonderful childminders

We couldn't have been happier to send our 1 year old boy to Carmen and Marta. It is such a loving, nurturing and stimulating environment. We were so nervous on the first day at drop off, and being a lockdown baby, we weren't sure how well our son would settle. Within the first few hours, after endless loving cuddles from his new aunties, he settled right in. He truly thrived there. The setting is the perfect size to enable little ones to form close bonds with playmates. The weekly range of activities are brilliant e.g. messy play, story time, singing, watching caterpillars grow into butterflies, playing in the lovely garden picking fruit, trips to the park, local fire station, garden centre, science museum and even Santa's grotto! The loving support from Carmen and Marta is truly incredible, and they supported my boy through some very big milestones e.g. potty training, a house move and the arrival of a new baby brother. My little boy moved onto preschool at aged 3, but we immediately signed our second child up for a place at Carmen and Marta's. I can't wait for his adventures there to begin in March 2024!

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by Sophie about Carmen and Marta on 13/10/2023

Fantastic childminders

We chose Carmen and Marta for our daughter because of the warmth that we immediately felt as soon as we met them. Not only are they incredibly professional, with regular reports and assessments via the Kinderly app, but they are incredibly loving women who nurture and educate our daughter.
We love the size of the setting, two childminders and 6 children, to us, is the perfect combination. Big enough for our daughter to socialise and have friends of all ages, but small enough that she is known incredibly well.
Carmen and Marta organise fantastic activities each day. Activities in the setting include painting, sticking, cutting, play doh, water play, muddy kitchen, loads of toys, themed activities eg for world book day, Halloween, Christmas, they even helped make pancakes on shrove Tuesday. They celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, divali, Australia Day, Earth day etc etc. Recently, they were lucky enough to ‘grow’ caterpillars and watch them turn into butterflies.
Important to us, is the children are out most days, they go to the park, the greengrocers etc and are so well-trained to walk safely. We didn’t have to teach our daughter safety, she knows she has to hold the pram or our hands when crossing the road as they have instilled this in her.
They are fantastic at mixed age groups. Our daughter started at 10 months and adored watching the older kids with their activities whilst she did age appropriate tasks. Now she is one of the older ones and helps the little ones or is taught to gently play or share with them.
We thoroughly recommend Carmen and Marta. In fact, we think they are so great we have signed our (as yet unborn) son up to start with them in a year’s time!

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by Hester about Carmen and Marta on 22/07/2022

Carmen & Marta are truly amazing!

Our daughter could not be in better hands.

Our two-year-old daughter has been going there since she was 10 months old. She loves loves loves them! And we do too! Carmen and Marta give our daughter affection and love, and teach her so many things, like recently putting on her coat by herself!

Carmen and Marta have perfectly accompanied our daughter in all areas of her development, emotional, motor, sensory, language, cognitive, social, and physical.

The kids do lots of great creative and educational activities (drawing, painting, textures, stories, crafts, shapes, colours, every day there’s something new); and they do outdoor activities every day (weather permitting). Our daughter learns, plays, laughs, has fun with friends, discovers nature, all this in a safe, secure, joyful and loving environment.

We chat with Carmen and Marta every morning when we drop our daughter off, every evening when we pick her up. During the day, we receive great photos. If we have any questions, they are always very available, and they always keep us informed if our daughter has fever for instance.

We will remember for the rest of our lives the first day we left our daughter. We felt a sadness that we had never felt before. After a few days, we felt light as a feather knowing she was in such a loving and caring environment.

We recommend them highly and without reservation.

Johanna & Catlyne

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by Johanna about Carmen and Marta on 18/03/2022

Excellent

Our son has been going to Marta and Carmens for over 2 years and loves going. They keep the kids entertained with lovely creative and educational activities. It’s more than just a childminders as they make it feel like an extended family!
They have been really helpful and have been able accommodate any extra requests like one off drop offs to our home while I was heavily pregnant.
Would highly recommend!

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by Gill about Carmen and Marta on 26/06/2020