Sophie
Childminder in London: Lewisham
Female Member since Jan 2015 Last Updated Oct 2023 Last Login 23 Apr 2024
My Summary
About Me
Hello, my name is Sophie and I am an English/Cantonese speaking Ofsted registered childminder, rated 'Good' in 2023. I live with my husband, my 9 year old daughter and my 6 year old son. I am located in Brockley, 6-8 mins walk from Brockley station.
I am able to offer babies and young children a safe, happy, nurturing environment in which to play, learn and socialise. I have a large variety of play and exploration opportunities for your child(ren) and make daily visits to child friendly places of interest such as playgroups, farms, libraries, play parks and local museums.
I typically include one hot meal during the course of the day (usually lunch) as well as breakfast, a light tea and snacks are offered during the day.
My setting and routines are best suited for babies & toddlers up until the term after they are 3 years old.
I typically work on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, all year round with my own holidays taken mostly during the school holidays.
My Experience
I have over 17 years experience working in early years, working in different settings in the past, which has given me valuable knowledge and experience working with children. These settings have been a mix of nurseries and children centres, but also include: Holiday clubs and primary schools, in various roles such as a Play Worker, Supply Teaching Assistant for Primary aged children as well as an Early Years Educator/Nursery Nurse.
I am currently a DfE Childminder Mentor giving online support to Childminders in the wider region and in autumn 2023 I will be supporting Y2 Cantonese class teacher in Chinese school.
In November 2014 I started to volunteer my time to lead a Cantonese nursery rhyme time at Charing Cross Library, then in 2016 I started a monthly Cantonese nursery rhyme group session at Manor Library, Hither Green. In October 2017 I expanded the group to Crofton Park Library up until October 2018.
I then continued to reach out to local Cantonese families and founded a monthly Playgroup at Honor Oak Community Centre in May 2018 which ran for 2 years. This playgroup involved cultural play activities, stories and songs for the children of Cantonese and non Cantonese speaking families to share conversation and play together.
I have volunteered my time at the local Scouting (Beavers) group and I am currently one of the parent representatives for the Beaver Section. I led the Baby Bounce at New Cross Learning Library too from Spring 2023, and continue to do so at an ad-hoc basis, sharing children’s nursery rhymes.
My Qualifications
QUALIFICATIONS
BA (hons) Textile design
A’ Levels in Art & Design, Photography and Textiles.
NVQ in Pattern Cutting
GCSE passes in English and Maths
EARLY YEARS RELATED TRAINING includes but not limited to:
DfE COVID/Mentor training
DfE Understanding child development
Maths is everywhere
Supporting children’s emotions in early years
Introduction to Schemas and Maths in the early years
REAL training (Raising Early Achievement in Literacy)
Level 2 & 3 in Children's care, learning and development
Making music with babies
Babies- What's so different then?
Level 1 Making sense of autism
Mark making matters! Developing early writing skills
Food hygiene awareness
Prevent
Child protection/Safeguarding Children
Paediatric first aid
Enhanced disclosure and barring (DBS)
Other training includes:
Solihull Approach training
Involving in I can Chatterbox sessions
Giving a talk on Re-Usable/Real nappies
Makaton
Treasure baskets
ECERS-R /ITERS-R (Early childhood Environment Rating Scale)
Schemas
My Availability
Open Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Open until 5:30pm. No availability at the moment.
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Afternoon | no | no | no | no | no | no | no |
After School | no | no | no | no | no | no | no |
Evening | no | no | no | no | no | no | no |
Overnight | no | no | no | no | no | no | no |
Last Updated: 24/10/2023 |
My Fees
- Childminding from £80.00 per hour
£80 daily rate applies.
My Local Schools
- I provide drop offs at Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham Temple Grove Free School
My Ofsted Inspections
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My Documents
- Ofsted Certificate (added 22/11/2022)
Reviews
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Our daughter was looked after by Sophie from the age of one. We chose Sophie as our childminder because she has excellent communications skills and provides a varied and stimulating environment for children in her care. She has been a brilliant, steady support over the last year and our daughter enjoyed every minute of being there. Sophie does a great job at developing children's learning and development through experimentation, positive reinforcement and consistency. She has a wide selection of toys and takes them out on daily excursions to playgroups and other child-friendly places such as the Horniman museum. Our daughter struck up a bond with Sophie's own children – who play a part in her welcoming and caring setting. An added bonus! Sophie is completely reliable, a fantastic communicator (we enjoyed hearing her daily reports) and her manner with both our daughter and us always impressed us. We would not hesitate to recommended Sophie and we all miss her already!
Sophie looked after both our children, our eldest Niko from aged 1-3 and then our youngest Tomasz joined him from 7 months old to just passed 3 years old. She provides a warm, fun and safe home with lots of educational toys and also took them to different activities almost every day. She is very competent with children, especially toddlers and shows real care and though towards them. She notices how they are doing both emotionally and developmentally and would often offer helpful suggestions with any problems I was struggling with. She is adept at standing firm with kindness.This meant we felt very good about leaving them in her care, especially early on when they were pretty young. We found her a pleasure to communicate with- she is clear, trustworthy and flexible when needed. We feel very lucky to have found her when we did, she really goes the extra mile as a childminder.
We briefly used Sophie as a childminder for our 14 month old baby. Due to personal circumstances we had to change to a childminder in a different area. However, we were absolutely delighted with Sophie's care and sad to say good bye to her. She was clear and prompt in all her communications with us. She set us up with a very thorough and gentle settling in process. I loved her approach to childminding and her kind, loving way with our son. I highly recommend her. Our son will miss her.
Sophie has looked after both of our daughters over the past 3 years and we and they have always been very happy with the care they received. Sophie's childcare setting is really well set up for kids of all ages and the girls have been kept busy with a variety of activities from crafts to outdoor play, songs and trips out in the local area. Sophie provides a really lovely environment for children and both our girls bonded really well with Sophie and her children. They are always excited when they arrive at Sophie's and Sophie made sure that they settled in really well. I can't recommend Sophie highly enough!
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