We have been so busy over the last few months, with new families starting, families leaving to go on maternity leave to have babies number 2 and 3. Families returning from maternity leave. There have been 3 new babies born already, all returning later this year. Lots of new families signed up ready to start in March, April, July August and September. Now you know why I haven’t posted much on here. Over the next few weeks I will post some of the fab things we have been up to. ☺️

Wow we have been busy the last few weeks, I've just been writing up what we have been doing and we have certainly had a fun packed few weeks, play groups, Jo Jingle sessions, parks, picnics, bug hunting, dressing up, puppet shows, trips out to Anderson Boat lift, den building, Walton gardens, messy play, trips to the ice cream farm, bowling, vegetable painting, birthday parties, baking, role plays, making rain catchers, discos, bell ringing at the church, welcoming our new families. Pictures to follow. I really do love what I do. ❤️❤️❤️

Wow is there really only two weeks left of the "summer" holidays? We have had some great days out so far. We have so many wonderful places to visit just within either a short drive or walk from our setting

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We hope you are enjoying the start of the school holidays? We are just enjoying a short break, before returning to a fun packed summer with all of our little ones. We have new families starting. We have our school holiday children returning. Exciting times ahead. If you are looking for childcare whether it be, full time, part time, term time only or holiday cover why not get in touch to see how we can help. Having two great assistants, as well as myself, allows us to have a small group of children every day, however still in a home from home setting.

Today we have been creating our very own band, the children loved getting the musical instruments out. I'm not sure I recognised all the tunes but hey that doesn't matter, the most important thing is we had fun! We also did our daily watering of our very own sunflowers which are doing great!

I'm delighted to announce that following our recent OFSTED visit we have been graded a Good, and in the words of the inspector a strong good. This was our first grading inspection and I am absolutely over the moon. All our hard work and the continued support we offer to the children and families has been recognised.

What a fantastic day, I really do love summer! Today we explored the sandpit, building sandcastles, making patterns with our fingers, chopping and cutting the sand! We also had our paddling pool out, it was lovely to cool down, they really enjoyed pouring, carrying, making bubbles, and I think the little ones enjoyed splashing the grown ups the most

Attending a Childminding Conference.