Michelle's Reviews

We truly can't recommend her enough!!

We will be forever grateful for the day we found Michelle. Our childminder at the time was closing and we only had a month to find a replacement. Thankfully, as soon as we met her, we knew she was right for us and our daughter. She is calm, kind, professional and organised. She provides a caring and safe 'home from home' environment. She has a lovely home and secure garden for the children to play. She has two dogs who soon became our daughter’s furry friends. Michelle would often send us photos of them cuddled up on the sofa together.

Michelle kept us updated via messages and photos of the children's activities each day. They included home baking, arts and crafts, various trips out to the library, local park, picnics at Fairlands valley, fruit picking, Standalone farm, museums and soft play to name a few. Michelle goes above and beyond in everything she does. She provides healthy snacks, lunch and a home cooked dinner every day. She will even wash and clean the children’s clothes and keep a clean set at hers in case of any accidents.

Michelle is flexible and accommodating wherever possible. She also looked after our son during the school holidays and even collected and dropped off our daughter occasionally when we had car problems. Michelle will drop off and collect from Round Diamond primary school for those that may need it. Our daughter was able to draw, colour in, hold a pencil correctly and write her name all before turning 4. I truly believe this was testament to Michelle and her patience and dedication to helping children learn and develop confidently whilst in her care.

Our daughter has now left Michelle’s and moved on to school nursery. However, she often tells me that she misses Michelle and the friends she made. Depending on capacity, we still have the option to send our children to Michelle in the school holidays which we are extremely grateful for. I asked our daughter what she would like to say about Michelle and without prompting she said ‘I love her’ … that says it all!! We truly can’t recommend her enough!

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by KatieLou on 28/01/2026

Could not have asked for more

My boy (nearly 6) and girl (nearly 3) have been with Michelle for almost 4 years now and she’s been amazing right from the start. Her house is beautifully clean & inviting, with plenty of space inside and out for the little ones to play. Michelle has taken our little ones out regularly to things like soft play, farms and fruit picking, and in more recent times has picked up our boy from round diamond school. At home there’s always been a huge variety of stimulating toys and activities to help our little ones develop, with time for them to relax too. She’s always fed them so well, as well as keeping us up to date with whatever is going on for them in the day, and has been really flexible helping us out at times when we’ve needed it. If we weren’t moving we would have stayed with Michelle for a long time, and can’t recommend her more highly. She’s been an extension to our family and we’re extremely grateful.

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by EmmaM on 27/06/2024

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My 4yr old has been with Michelle since she was a childminding assistant and moved when she started up. Michelle has always had my son interests in mind has taken him to play groups to now dropping him off at pre school. Michelle has done all sorts of activies to help him progress, learn and of course have a lot of fun. My son feels more like part of the family. He oftern tells me about his day and the things he has done.
Michelle has also been very helpful to a new mother trying to negotiate preschools and schools.
Due to a change in my work circumstances, Michelle has been understanding and has assisted and been flexible so I now do not have to move providers, which I am pleased about.
In other words my son loves it at Michelle's.

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by jenieb on 05/07/2016