Emma's Reviews
Parent
Below are the reviews that Emma has written.
Jane has looked after my youngest for almost a year since he was 8 months old and he has had a wonderful time with her. He’s always been happy to be dropped off and now often claps when we get to the front door. She has a beautiful home, spacious and well set up for the kids and they play all sorts of things indoors and in the garden. The play room is great, he loves the cats and having other toddlers or bigger kids around him to watch and try to join in with. Jane is very organised and has a great set up in place, she writes a helpful journal entry for him every day which I enjoy reading and they’re often going out to parks, playgroups and other childminder’s. She has a very patient, flexible and caring manner with the children and I’ve felt reassured from the 1st day that my son is in good hands. If we lived a bit closer I would have happily kept him with Jane until school years and beyond, but we’ve had some changes with our eldest and have had to move to a Nanny set up. I would highly recommend Jane to any parents looking for a childminder and completely understand why she has an ofsted rating of Outstanding, we will miss her very much.
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Natasha has been with our family for over 2 years caring for our two energetic boys who are 3 1/2 and 6. She has a kind, friendly nature, endless amounts of patience and the boys love her very much. She is extremely reliable and trustworthy and always flexible, accommodating to our needs. She has 2 lovely girls who we don't see much anymore as they're in secondary school, but are a real testament to her as a mother and she has shown the same with our boys.
Natasha does so much with the boys including homework, school projects, phonics learning at home and all sorts of fun craft and baking ideas that I would never have thought of. As well as the school runs, she's covers doctor and hospital appointments (ENT), haircuts and swimming lessons. The boys love being outdoors and she takes them somewhere every day; parks, forests, conker picking in Non-Such, Bourne Hall etc. They go to lots of different soft plays, garden centers and in the holidays days out like Hampton Court and fruit picking, Halloween and Christmas events. They have a great time.
Our youngest starts school in Sept so as much as I'd love to, I won't be able to offer enough hours to keep Natasha. I've had a personally difficult family year and really don't know what I would have done without her. Any family would be lucky to have her.
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My son missed a lot of Reception and Y1 due to covid and struggles with phonics anyway so is a very reluctant reader and hated English. However the time with Dayna this year (Y3 going into 4) has done him the world of good. He enjoys the classes very much and is always happy to go. He is growing in confidence with his writing, spelling and reading and even pro actively writes things at home now. She has a lovely setting for the children and a great positive learning approach, I'd happily recommend.
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Emma
about
1st Class Teaching
(Private Tutor) on 17/10/2023
Response by
1st Class Teaching
on 19/10/2023:
He is doing brilliantly and it’s so lovely to see him making such wonderful progress in English. I’m so happy he loves learning here and is enjoying it more at home. Thank you so much for your kind words 🥰
