Shelby D
Childminder in Biddenham
Usually responds within 1 hour
Female Member since Jul 2018 Last Updated Oct 2023 Last Login Nov 2023
My Summary
About Me
Welcome to Little Dinosaurs Childminding!
We've recently moved from Kempston to the new St Mary's estate in Biddenham. The setting is a bright, airy, family home with resources for various age groups to stimulate a fun, friendly learning environment. My aim is to provide a home-from-home atmosphere, ensuring the children feel safe, comfortable and welcome in my setting.
We live for the outdoors at Little Dinosaurs - rain or shine we're out in the fresh air! You can often find us at the woods, parks, lakes, nature reserves, farm and the garden. We also enjoy trips to the library and playgroups.
I love arts and crafts, and I've adopted a more process driven approach with the children at my setting, encouraging them to explore their own creativity with a range of materials such as pencils, poster & watercolour paint, collaging, clay etc.
We learn lots through nature, and have a keen focus on caring for the environment. The children are encouraged to notice the small changes around them throughout the year and I love to bring the outside in wherever I can. Since having my own two children, I have adopted a more heuristic approach to learning; offering more natural and household objects to enable lots of child-led, open-ended play. The use of loose parts such as pine cones, sticks, shells etc supports exploration, investigation and experimentation - we all know their favourite ‘toy’ is a cardboard box!
My Experience
Learning and child development is something very close to my heart, I achieved a 2:1 BA Honours in Developmental Psychology and have 5 years’ experience in social care / education sector. I started my school centred teacher training, working as a full-time unqualified teacher in a year 3 class whilst completing the course before falling pregnant with my little boy.
Since having my children, I have fallen in love with teaching the early years in a home setting. The freedom and control it allows, with a small group in a warm and friendly atmosphere, means I can give each child the individual care, attention and teaching they need.
I completed the level 3 award in preparing to work in home-based childcare to add to my teaching experience and further develop my knowledge of the EYFS, giving me a great understanding of how to help them grow into happy, confident children in a safe and caring environment.
My Qualifications
• 2:1 BA Honours in Developmental Psychology
• BTEC Residential childcare - including experience with developmental delays, ASD, ADHD, emotional dysregulation and lots more.
• Cover supervisor in 4 form entry primary school
• 5 years’ experience in social care / education sector before starting my SCITT primary teacher training
• Level 3 preparing to work in home-based childcare
• Paediatric first aid
• PACEY Safeguarding Children
• PACEY Level 2 Food Safety & Hygiene for Early Years Settings
• Sounds-Write phonics
• Hygge in the Early Years Wanderlust study
• Many borough funded training courses, lots of focus on speech and language
My Availability
Space available on Mon & Fri for immediate start. Mon, Wed, Thu & Fri from January.
Term time only
Mon-Fri
8am-4:30pm
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| Before School | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| Morning | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| Afternoon | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| After School | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| Evening | no | no | no | no | no | no | no |
| Overnight | no | no | no | no | no | no | no |
| Last Updated: 11/10/2023 | |||||||
My Fees
- Childminding from £5.50 per hour
My Local Schools
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My Ofsted Inspections
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My Documents
- Ofsted Certificate (added 10/08/2022)
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