Nanny K seesingsay's Reviews

A truly outstanding childminder!

Kate is an absolutely outstanding childminder! My son attended her setting three days a week from 9 months old. We were so lucky to find such an amazing person to look after our son and have such a positive first experience of childcare.

Kate has a wonderful environment that is both homely/secure and nurturing whilst also having a big focus on all aspects of a child’s development. My son did so many great activities and arts and crafts and learned plenty of new things I’d not thought to expose him to yet.

Kate also did a fantastic job of being really aware of his language development and ensuring she was stretching him and teaching him new words all the time.

We had plenty of verbal feedback everyday as well as periodic formal development reviews and photos shared. Kate always involved us in conversations about his development.

I was so disappointed my daughter couldn’t also attend Kate’s setting as we’d moved away from the area at that point.

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by rlgeorge about Nanny K seesingsay on 16/01/2022

Amazing childminder

Kate was looking after our boy since he was one yo. He didn't speak nor understood english, but thanks to her experience and patience they were able to form strong bond. We provided own food so cannot really comment on that, setting is amazing as it is separate from the house and they often venture either to garden or outside. Highly recommend

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by Juraj about Nanny K seesingsay on 16/01/2022

Perfect

Trying to find a care provider for children is so hard but as soon as we met Kate and saw her set up I just knew she was the person i wanted to look after our son. Kate is always kind, caring and patient. She communicates well and teaches the children so much. The amount of work our son came home with was lovely as well as being involved in assessments and receiving a ream of photos. Our son loves Kate and her seesingsay songs have helped lot in his learning. I would highly recommend Kate to all parents. Kate takes the children out daily, has a great process for learning and weaning off dummies, supporting naps and supporting toileting and independent skills. There is zero reliance on TV. We miss Kate a lot!

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by Sonya about Nanny K seesingsay on 16/01/2022

Fantastic!

Kate is an incredible Childminder. A wonderful setting which seems to completely transform through the seasons and national holidays!
I would highly recommend her to anyone.

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by Hannah R about Nanny K seesingsay on 05/07/2021

Fantastic Childminder!

Kate has looked after our 2 girls (now 2 and 4) over the past 2 years. She is incredibly professional, caring and fun, whilst at the same time ensuring that the kids in her care learn key life skills and are set clear behavioural boundaries. She takes the children to a range of activities and does some great crafts pretty much every day. We highly recommend her and will miss her greatly.

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by Gillian about Nanny K seesingsay on 21/07/2018

Excellent Childminder!

Kate was our Childminder for 11 years and she looked after my 3 children from the age of 6 months. She is an experienced Childminder that genuinely cares about the children in her care. She goes above and beyond to not only keep them safe and well looked after but arranges a wonderful variety of activities to entertain them too.

All of my children loved attending, they enjoyed activities that we wouldn't always get to do at home (due to the mess factor!). Craft activities were a speciality and our children regularly brought home glitter covered masterpieces. She was keen to teach them too and her lovely garden was also child orientated, with lots of growing vegetables and flowers. The setting was always well organised and she had various charts that helped the children too.

At the end of the session, we would always have feedback as to what our children would have achieved that day, or be told of any progress they had made. Her knowledge of the Early Years framework was always really high and so she was very in tune with the level your child was reaching. When my first child attending her setting, her advice was always invaluable to me and I learnt a lot from her. She was always reassuring.

Kate was extremely reliable and hardworking. I could leave the children with her and not worry. I can only count on one hand, the people I would leave my children with and Kate was one of them! She made you feel like one of the family and we feel so blessed that we were able to have a consistently high standard of childcare over so many years which is rare these days.

Wishing her every success in her new area, you would be extremely lucky to have her as a childminder!

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by Parent about Nanny K seesingsay on 12/07/2018

Excellent childminder!

Kate looked after our son for 2 years from the age of 1 and provided excellent care - he was definitely in safe hands! Kate is friendly and reliable, our son loved going to her home and would come home with endless arts and crafts which took pride and place on our mantlepiece. Kate invested a lot of time in developing skills and was pivotal in the potty training process when we would have easily given up! We can't thank Kate enough for her time and are sad to see her leave - we wish her the very best in her new home!

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by Parent about Nanny K seesingsay on 28/02/2018

Excellent and very caring childminder

Kate looked after our 2 boys from when our eldest was 1 yr until 4 yrs and our 2nd son was 1 yr until 3 yrs. We are very happy with the care she provided and it always felt like she really did care, rather than was just doing this as a job. We were very sad that moving house meant we had to leave and have yet to find the same quality of care.

Kate is very creative and was always making things with the boys and tying in what she was doing to the what was happening at the time (e.g. crafts about Spring or the queen’s jubilee or Father’s Day etc.)

She takes time to work with each child, finding activities that match their interests and stimulate them. In addition, Kate also organises activities outside the house for them, taking the children to the library, park or singing and music groups. They have a lot of contact with other children. Our boys went from being with Kate to going into a larger nursery and had no problems adapting.

When we were looking for childcare, outside space was really important to us. We really liked the way she had designed her garden, packing a lot into a small space and making it suitable for all weather. She made very good use of it so the children could always have some time outside and get involved with planting things as well as playing. My boys still miss her garden and keep asking if they can go back and visit.

Our youngest son was born with mild-moderate hearing loss and needs hearing aids. There were concerns that he may have speech problems as a result. However, Kate was amazing in adapting to his needs and he ended up being far more advanced in his speech and development than other children his age. This early years grounding has significantly minimised any future disability his hearing loss may have caused and really impressed his audiologist and hearing teachers. We give Kate a lot of credit for this.

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by Parent about Nanny K seesingsay on 04/02/2018

Highly Recommended

I cannot recommend Kate highly enough, she is friendly, approachable and cares for your children as her own. My children thoroughly enjoyed their time with her, she offers a great range of activities with indoor and outdoor spaces available at her home. The children also attended local toddler groups with her. Kate will always provide feedback about their day and photographs of activities too. Kate is also flexible and will always try and accommodate any changes to days/ times when the children attend, this helped me out on a few occasions! Thanks again Kate :)

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by Lorraine about Nanny K seesingsay on 24/01/2018