Avril
Childminder in South Bermondsey
Usually responds within 12 hours
Female Member since Mar 2017 Last Updated Oct 2024 Last Login 07 Nov 2024
My Summary
Here At Divine Heritage, I Create A Positive, Confident, And Secure Environment For The Children.
About Me
I'm an Ofsted registered Childminder in Bermondsey SE16. I offer warm home-to-home settings for children aged 0 - 10. I live on a ground floor flat with no stairs and I have a garden.
I'm surrounded by amenities such as parks, children's centres, and local shops. I am only a 2-minute walk from the main bus route on Jamaica Rd and about a 5-10-minute walk to Bermondsey station.
I provide a safe, secure, homely children service from my home. I'm energetic, enthusiastic, and friendly. I provide a warm, lovely, fun, and welcoming environment for children.
My home is clean, pet, and smoke-free with lots of appropriate age toys for the children to play with. My activities are based on the early year's foundation stage. I create activities that promote inclusion, independence, exploration, communication, and physical development.
I'm flexible; I take on children who need an odd hour here and there, a holiday play scheme, or just dropping or picking them up from school.
I complete a diary for each child so that parents can see the activities that their child has been doing.
I accept childcare vouchers.
My Experience
I'm a mother of 3 children and I'm passionate about having a good understanding of children's needs and using the appropriate scaffolding strategies. I've enjoyed raising my children and I've been working with children since I was sixteen started off as a babysitter which has influenced my decision to become a childminder. I enjoy looking after all ages, from all ethnic background. I believe I can provide a high-quality teaching to children to help them achieve their developmental goals and outcomes.
My Qualifications
Post Graduate Certificate In Chartered Institute of Personnel Practices
BA In Advertising & Marketing Communications
Safeguarding & Welfare Requirements & Early years Outcome.
Safeguarding Children & Family
Paediatric First Aid
Child Protection
The Education & Training Foundation (Prevent for support staff)
Level 3 Certificate in Early Years Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators (SENCO)
My Availability
I'm available Monday to Friday from 08:00 - 6.00pm
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
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| Before School | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| Morning | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| Afternoon | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| After School | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| Evening | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| Overnight | no | no | no | no | no | no | no |
| Last Updated: 16/09/2024 | |||||||
My Fees
- Childminding from £9.00 per hour
£ 65.00 per day
My Local Schools
- I provide drop offs and pick ups at Riverside Primary School
- I provide drop offs and pick ups at St James' Church of England Primary School
- I provide drop offs and pick ups at St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
My Ofsted Inspections
The inspection grades below have been obtained from the Ofsted website based upon the registration number the childminder has provided to us. You should verify this information yourself prior to using the childminder.
My Documents
- Ofsted Certificate (added 31/07/2020)
- DBS Check (added 31/07/2020)
- Inspection Report: Ofsted Report (added 27/01/2020)
Reviews
Below are the latest reviews for Avril. 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.
Avril has been looking after my daughter since she was 5 months for nearly 4 months now. Avril is reliable, flexible and my daughter settled in very quickly in her settling. She’s always happy seeing Avril when I dropped her off and when I picked her up I knew she had a wonderful day. Unfortunately we will be moving out of the area so we need to say goodbye to Avril soon.
I’m really glad to have found Avril as my daughter’s childminder. With her help I always go to office with reassurance that my daughter will be well taken care of.
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Cassie
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on 01/10/2023
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Avril
on 03/10/2023:
Thank you for taking the time to leave me a review. It's a pleasure caring for baby J. Your kind words are greatly appreciated, and we all here at Divine Heritage Childcare will miss baby J dearly, especially her lovely smile. Best wishes, and you are always welcome.
Avril has been part of our family since my oldest was 5 months old and has now helped transition both my children into school / nursery. She is one hundred percent reliable and professional. Her flexibility, support and advice to me as a parent have been invaluable. She is great at helping children through the difficult stages of toddlerdom and potty training. Most important of all though, she is warm and caring and provides a real family environment for the children in her care. My two love going to Avril, have made great friends there, and really feel part of her family.
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Angharad
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on 05/09/2023
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Avril
on 06/09/2023:
Thanks so much Angharad for your kind words. I really appreciate you taking the time out to share your experience about my service. Your children are truly gems and they are always welcome. I look forward to having them again in the future!
Avril has been looking after my daughter Nasya by picking her up from St Joseph and sometimes when she is off school like now
And she has been the best.
Not from me and my daughter doesn’t even want to hear that Avril will not look after so this tell you a lot about her service and professionalism
I recommend her 100% even though we live in Sydenham I still travel to drop my daughter with her.
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litreg
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Avril
on 31/08/2023
Response by
Avril
on 31/08/2023:
Thank you so much Litreg and I'm grateful. It's a pleasure taking care of your daughter. She is very polite, helpful and well mannered.
Avril is a very friendly, caring and welcoming childminder. My daughter absolutely enjoys school pick ups and spending time at Avril home after school. My daughter is always happy when I pick up and greatly enjoys interacting with the other children.
Avril has been really accommodating, as well providing a safe and healthy environment. I would highly recommend Avril to anyone looking for a reliable and professional childminder.
Thank you so much for services.
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Mandy
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on 22/11/2022
Response by
Avril
on 22/11/2022:
Thank you Mandy. A is very friendly and intelligent. We'll miss having mental math test with her, she's always welcome.
It is always difficult to leave your baby (9 months old in our case) with someone else but Avril has made the whole experience so easy for me and my son. She was very reassuring from the beginning and helped James settle in in no time. Now he has such a wonderful time with Avril and the children and comes back home happy. They always have fun activities planned, such as going to the park, the library and other play groups and James has been developing in leaps and bounds.
Avril is very caring, fun, observant and highly experienced. She sends us videos and photos of James and lets us know of the things we should pay attention to (such as Jamesie starting to walk along the furniture and wanting to pull everything from the table). We couldn't have hoped for a better experience and are very grateful to Avril and her children for making James feel so loved and happy.
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Laura
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on 07/11/2022
Response by
Avril
on 08/11/2022:
Thank you so much Laura. James is such a pleasant, fun loving boy. It's a pleasure caring for him and he is always welcome. We'll miss him so much with his cute smile.
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