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Shelley

Childminder in Hucknall

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Female Member since Jul 2024 Last Updated Apr 2025 Last Login 27 Apr 2025

My Summary

First Aid Training
DBS Check
Full Driving Licence
Own Car
Childcare Qualifications
Flexible Hours
Free Smear-Test Childcare
Pre-Registration
Webinar Regular

About Me

Hello and welcome to Little Acorns Childcare. I'm Shelley and I am a pre-registration Early Years childminder based in Hucknall, Nottingham. I share my home with my partner of 10 years David, my 23 year old daughter Morgan and our calico cat Cindy. I have worked hard to make our home a safe, warm and welcoming home from home for your precious little ones to learn through play, songs and adventures.
Little Acorns Childcare aims to help your little ones to reach their developmental milestones through adult and child lead activities, providing a rich and stimulating curriculum in line with the EYFS statutory framework. Introducing a new topic each month, building knowledge and friendships with the objective to help your little ones become confident to enter the next stage in their education.
I have a dedicated playroom filled with child sized furniture, loose parts play, paper and crayons for mark making, paints for messy play, play dough, reading corner, jigsaws and a role play area perfect to inspire your little ones imaginations.
Our spacious lounge/dining room is the perfect quiet place for group reading, dough disco and nap time or calming activities such as cosmic yoga, sing a long, nursery rhymes or short films from the Julia Donaldson collection for example.
Meals will be eaten in our dining room where your children and I can all sit and eat together as an opportunity to develop personal and social skills and to offer guidance with cutlery and food.
I have my food and hygiene certificate so I am able to offer a healthy breakfast and lunch, along with 2 snacks and a choice of fruit, milk, fruit juice or water throughout the day. The choices will be displayed a week prior. Parents/carers can supply their own food if they prefer.
There is a safe and convenient downstairs toilet where the children will have easy access to toilet and hand washing facilities and their own hand towels. There is a fully secure, large garden that contains sandpits, water play, push toys, chalk board, playhouse, slide and a growing area for the children to grow flowers and seasonal fruit and vegetables that will be eaten with our snacks.
As often as possible, I will take your little ones on adventures big and small, I am lucky enough to be within walking distance to a lovely large park, local shops and cafes and a library. For bigger adventures I will take trips to farms, forests, museums and play centres to expand the children's ever growing personal, social and emotional development and the world around them.
I offer free of charge settling in sessions to help with the transition.
Thank you or taking the time to read this, please feel free to contact me for further details. All parents are welcome to come and look around my home, garden and playroom.

My Experience

I have raised my adult daughter and I have previously worked in nursery, primary and wrap around settings.
I love everything about Early years. I have an NVQ level 2 TA qualification and I am always working on my continual professional development, be that through courses, training, reading and researching or practice to enable me to provide the most up to date care and learning for your little ones.

My Qualifications

NVQ Level 2 Teaching Assistant
Safeguarding Children and Designated Lead
Paediatric First Aid,
Food and Hygiene,
Prevent Duty and Fundamental British Values,
Understanding and Working with the EYFS
Developing Children's Learning,
Recording Children's Development,
Cultural Capital,
Pedagogy in the Early Years,
Literacy and Maths in the Early Years,
Nutrition in the Early Years,
Play, Nurturing and Curiosity,
Always updating my CPD,
All household fully DBS checked,
Full driving license,
Childminder insurance,
Public Liability insurance,

My Availability

Monday to Friday 7am to 6pm
open 48 weeks of the year, closing for summer holidays and Christmas.

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Overnight no no no no no no no
Last Updated: 19/04/2025

My Fees

  • Childminding from £5.00 per hour

Childminding £5.00 per hour.
We also offer the first 12 hours for free, these can be split into 2, 3 or 4 hour sessions

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 Documents

  • DBS Check (added 23/02/2025)
  • Training Certificate (added 22/03/2025)
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