April was our nanny for 2.5 years to our (originally) 11 month and nearly 3 year old boys. She left because we could no longer give her the hours she wanted once the youngest started nursery.

Her role included but was not limited to:
- entertaining the children with physical activities in the garden, arts and crafts, imaginative play, educational games
- taking them to parks/ theme parks/ farms/ library/ shops/ soft play etc
- dressing them and cleaning their clothes
- keeping the play areas, kitchen and bedrooms tidy incl cleaning bed clothes
- school drop off and pick up
- preparing meals
- helping with reading and spelling homework
- arranging play dates
- taking them to clubs
- taking them to doctor/ dentist
- helping around the house (emptying and stacking the dishwasher, putting the weekly shop away, nipping to the dry cleaner or post office)

April has been a fantastic nanny and is hopefully now a lifelong friend of the family. She was very punctual and reliable and didn't have sick days even when she felt under the weather. She is kind, caring and very constant with the boys. I get comments from mums at the school gate about how wonderful she is with them and how there is a mutual love between them!

She is on the go all the time and is always looking for new activities or places to go. She gets very involved with their play and if they go to groups she doesn't sit chatting with other nannies, she plays with the children.

She gave the boys a variety of food and whilst cooking is probably not her favourite part of the job she followed recipes and introduced a couple of new meals that the boys love. She would bake cakes and biscuits to decorate. She kept the house tidy and regularly reorganised the playroom.

April kept me up to date on how the boys were getting on and would send lots of pictures. She even face timed granny and grandad when the boys had something to show but she couldn't get hold of me.

I would have no hesitation in recommending April as a nanny, any family would be very lucky to have her.


April was nanny to our then 1 and 3 year old boys for 2.5 years from June 2014. She left when our youngest started school and we could no longer give her the hours she wanted.

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