My daughter has been with Anna for 3 years and recently left to start school hence why I felt the need to leave a well deserved review. We chose Anna as we loved her profile, everything from the range of activities she offered to the description of her family and home setting. Everything you read, she delivers! My children feel like a huge part of her family (my younger son also goes to her)

She provides the perfect balance of activities indoor and outdoors, season and weather permitting and plans the daily activities well in advance in the event that you need to pack wellies/waterproofs/swimwear. My children have done everything from, arts and crafts, baking (she’s a former chef), stories, country parks, beach days, petting zoo trips, National trust days, playgroups, the list goes on and in a nutshell, Anna loves what she does and is enthusiastic about broadening the children’s minds in every way possible. Anna also goes over and above her duties to work with the Octopus childminding group arranging many days out/play dates and has worked tirelessly in the past to fundraise for playgroups for our children to attend.

She has a fantastic home with huge rear garden where she grows fruits/veggies, has huge bug hotels, playhouse, Alfie the bunny, lots of great toys and equipment. The child friendly layout is safe and secure, has a beautiful playroom and has nice quiet rooms for naps, it’s also immaculately clean and has great parking out front.

Anna also uses babydays which is a great communication software tool for photographs, daily journals, contracts, risk assessments, medical info, invoices etc, all stored in one place. The App is available for quick and easy access and we love it as a family as you can also add your own photographs and observations for Anna to see what your child gets up to at home, very useful for pre talkers.

We highly recommend using Anna as a childminder. She’s an organised, happy, lovely lady who sets clear boundaries yet shows so much love and warmth to the children and my kids have an enormous amount of respect for her. My daughter misses her so much now she’s at school however on behalf of her, we thank you for all your hard work the last few years. You’re her fairy godmother and make the best meatballs she’ll ever eat! Five stars from us!

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