Lisa Harvey
Childminder in Archway
Female Member since Jun 2016 Last Updated Oct 2024 Last Login 12 Nov 2024
My Summary
About Me
I am an Ofsted registered and I am rated as outstanding. I am also on the Islington register of good practice for providing an enabling environment for children and have the HEY award for Islington. I am 56, married and have 3 grown up children as well as 4 wonderful grandchildren. I live in Archway in a house with a small outside garden perfect for little ones. I have 38 years experience in childcare, working in schools, nurseries, playgroups and as a nanny. I have been childminding now for 11 years and love it! I work with my assistant Dave - he's my husband - and offer an educational, exciting and fun experience for your child. We give a personal and professional service to your family making leaving your little one easier and you can do it with great confidence that your child will be looked after, safe and very happy. We encourage children and parents to treat our house as a second home. We have a mini bus which allows us to be out and about every day whatever the weather, we go to farms, zoos, Kew gardens, libraries, sea side, museums, lakes and many, many parks! We believe children learn through play and experiences and offer them the opportunities to develop to the best of their abilities by offering them time, resources and environments that will enable them to gain confidence and independence in themselves.
My Experience
After training I became a nanny then went on to work in a nursery, as a SEN worker in a school, ran a playgroup with my husband, was a room leader in a day nursery and a youth worker.
My Qualifications
NNEB in childcare
Pediatric first aid
Safeguarding and child protection
Food hygiene
health and safety
Many online training courses - including british values, schemas, autism, FGM
My Availability
From January 2025
Space for child aged 12months - 3 years old
8am - 6pm
No single days
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Last Updated: 24/10/2024 |
My Fees
- Childminding from £12.00 per hour
£75 per day
My Local Schools
This childminder has not yet informed us whether or not they provide any drop off or pick up services at local schools.
My Ofsted Inspections
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My Documents
- DBS Check (added 22/01/2024)
- Inspection Report: Ofsted 2016 (added 11/10/2016)
- Ofsted Certificate (added 11/10/2016)
Reviews
Below are the latest reviews for Lisa Harvey. Please note that reviews represent the subjective opinions of other Childcare.co.uk users and not of Childcare.co.uk. Parents must carry out their own checks and references on childcare providers to ensure that they are completely happy before enaging in the use of their services.
We were very fortunate to find Lisa and Dave, who looked after our daughter regularly from age 7 months to 7 years. She is now 10 years old and still drops in for the occasional day to reconnect and lend a hand with the “little ones”, having learned from the best.
It is never a dull moment at Lisa and Dave’s, from daily outings to parks and museums across London, to celebrating the latest cultural holiday, crafting, gardening, cooking and baking (appropriate to age) - they seem to do it all and incredibly well.
Lisa and Dave are conscientious about attending to every child’s individual needs as well as helping them develop as a group. As a parent, I knew my child was safe and secure with them, as well as having a great time.
Lisa and Dave rarely have open spaces, which is a testament to how fabulous they are. To say I highly recommend them doesn’t really capture it. Our daughter’s life was enriched by the time she spent with Lisa and Dave and so was ours. Don’t hesitate to consider placing your child in their care. I’ve no doubt you’ll find it - as we have - to be one of the best parenting decisions you can make.
by Lohrpa about Lisa Harvey on 22/10/2023
Let me tell you about the secret to our children’s happiness. If many people knew about Lisa and Dave you would never get in there. Those who know, book their places before conception! Imagine dropping your very young child off at a place where you know they will have more fun, love and safety than they would have staying with you at home.
Lisa and Dave look after five or six children from 6 months to 4 years plus a few older ones after school who can’t stay away they love Lisa and Dave so much. It’s a perfect number for having friends and fun together. Lisa and Dave are magicians who know how to bend space and time. In terms of time I couldn’t fit into 3 days what they fit into every day. 3 meals, a trip to a museum, farm, zoo, lake, beach or park every day in the famous white minibus. Play time, learning, garden, cooking, and all effortless and fun.
In terms of bending space, it’s like the Tardis the way they fit so much fun and activities into such a little garden. There are bugs and snails and trees and houses and plants with tomatoes, strawberries and other fruits, a little play house, water play, sand, chairs and tunnels and all manner of things that become serendipitous sources of fun at a moment’s notice yet there’s no clutter just a feeling of space and plentiful time. When I'm lucky enough to stop in and stay a while, the garden feels like an oasis of calm, cut off from the anxieties of the world.
Like a perfectly balanced surfer on the wave, the children need barely the faintest nudge to all fall in behind the next activity. There is never a cross word, you never hear a raised voice, Lisa has a magical ability to translate any request for compliance with a rule or social behaviour from an obligation to something fun and interesting the child is enthusiastic to do. Lisa says it's easy once you have the older kids doing things right all the younger ones copy the older ones and each new generation’ falls in line. It looks effortless. The children find themselves gently and invisibly nudged into the next activity by Dave and Lisa’s special language of love and fun mixed with their passion for the present moments in the world about them.
Dave’s restless excitement means there is always another fun thing happening, and Lisa’s effortless structure and harmony makes sure it all goes smoothly and effortlessly.
And at the end of the day when we pick them up and get photos of what they’ve been up to and an account of what they ate and reports on anything important we find they have also learnt everything they should have in numbers, words, perfect manners, colours, social skills, safety on the roads or around water and imagination and inspiration about the natural world around them, all without even realising they were learning. The children come home magically stopping at roadsides, asking politely and doing thoughtful things without being asked.
We've had three children with Lisa and Dave, daily for almost ten years since that first moment we left our firstborn stay with a stranger for the first time.
It’s quite remarkable everything they do and are, and when I look at my life, finding my wife and finding Lisa and Dave for my children make me feel the happiest and luckiest man alive.
by Charles about Lisa Harvey on 11/10/2023
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