Catarina
Babysitter in London: Lewisham
Usually responds within 3 days
Female Member since Oct 2022 Last Updated Nov 2025 Last Login 05 Nov 2025
My Summary
About Me
I am 21 years old and I come from Lisbon, Portugal. Therefore, I am fluent in English and Portuguese and I can understand and speak the basics of Spanish. I graduated from Anglia Ruskin University in Drama, after having moved to England over four years ago. I have been acting since 2008 and started working with children in 2016. I have since then worked as an intern in intensive summer theatre workshops. I am hoping to keep working in the Drama, Arts and Culture field, connecting my process with communities. I intend to fulfil a masters degree in Dramatherapy and build my experience and further education from there.
My Experience
Since a young age, I have worked as a babysitter for family members. In addition, from the age of 16, I worked as an intern in intensive summer theatre workshops with children from the ages of 6 years old to 16 years old. This has taught me to be aware of different ranges of ages and the interests of different children. By working closely with the Theatre field, my colleagues and I have developed strategies to inspire these kids to be creative and use their imagination, while harvesting their confidence and social skills. Over that, we faced them with concepts that stimulated their critical thinking and encouraged them to share their ideas and their own perception and opinions, while analysing different texts by different authors of different periods. My theatre journey has also contributed deeply to me in the same way, so I hope to be able to mirror that to whoever I come across in my life. Acting has raised in me a sense of empathy and it helps me understand the world and the people around me a bit better each day. In addition, moving to the United Kingdom by myself at the age of 16 introduced me to a new key feature of willingness to fix problems calmly and it made me come across people of all different kinds.
My Qualifications
Bachelor of Arts with Honours First Class in Drama from Anglia Ruskin University
My Availability
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| Before School | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
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| Afternoon | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| After School | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Evening | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Overnight | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Last Updated: 05/11/2025 | |||||||
My Fees
- Babysitting from £14.00 per hour
My Documents
- DBS Check (added 14/03/2023)
- Proof of Covid-19 Vaccination (added 27/10/2022)
- Exam Certificate: Drama Degree (added 27/10/2022)
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Catarina stayed with us for exactly one week (day and night) to help with urgent childcare for our four-year-old son due to last minute issues with family illness/mother in hospital etc. She was really excellent with our four-year-old son and played a variety of educational and fun games plus arts and crafts to keep him entertained. He got on so well with her which is great as our son can have some challenging behaviour but Catarina was excellent with him. Catarina also helped with small jobs around the house and she was clean, tidy and respectful. I trusted her to look after the house when we were out for the day and at other times she joined for for morning trips to the garden centre with our son. She was willing and keen to always help out and be available. Otherwise very friendly and kind around the house. Highly recommend. Thank you again.
by
James G
on 24/11/2022
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