Vicky's Childminding

I offer a home from home environment, the activities I provide include cooking, exploring nature and outdoors, art and crafts, water play, play-dough, I have a wide variety of toys and games, an outside wooden play house, pets, a lovely book corner. Hand puppets, dressing up clothes, sand pit, water play table, a play room upstairs, upstairs and downstairs bathroom facilities, I have a food hygiene rating of 5, and a ' Good ' Ofsted Inspection report.

In October we will be having an allotment plot, which we are very excited about  we love growing flowers, fruit and vegetables, I will be more than happy to take  children along for some really enjoyable gardening experiences, from making mud pies! to digging up potatoes and picking fruit,  and not forgetting hunting for worms and insects.

While observing your children play I will see what interests them individually and offer more new and exciting ways to help their development,  I will upload any photos of your child from the day to a secure web site ( with signed permission only ) so you can in your own time log in with a password system, to see what your children have been enjoying, I have data protection certificates for you to see, on the website you can leave notes or comments also view sleep times, snacks info, nappies.   I can't at the moment be as flexible as I would like due to other work commitments. I hope childminding will in time become my main career.

My hours of availability are 8am to 4pm Monday to Friday.

I am registered to offer overnight care for 2 children 8pm -8am. Sunday night to Thursday night.

I do not yet pick up or drop of to schools as my youngest son will not be going to school until next September 2012. ( I will offer this service then depending on what school we get offered)

If we find something interesting we all stop what we are doing to take a closer look we carefully put the newt into a tub and took it to the fenced off, pond area  near to where we live and set it free.

I aim to provide activities that children find invigorating and therapeutic  with lots of sensory experiences. We also visit parent and toddler groups, childminder drop in centres, shopping trips, visit to local parks for exercise and fresh air and occasionally to play centres with other childminder.