I found Shirley on this site and got a glowing reference for her through word of mouth, too. I actually visited her setting on the wrong date by accident - but Shirley still welcomed me into her lovely home, which I found to be extremely clean and tidy, despite the fact she wasn't expecting visitors.

Shirley loves kids and is passionate about their personal and academic development. Our son absolutely adores her and learns so much with Shirley every week through fun and engaging play. He comes home singing new songs, showing off the many arts and crafts he gets to make and brimming with confidence. Shirley's place is the perfect middle ground between our home environment and nursery school, which is why we chose to keep sending our son to her two days a week after he started at nursery. I've found Shirley to be incredibly kind, very organised, cheerful, warm and attentive. She gives detailed reports to parents of what our kids have been to each day and is very receptive to input from us as to things we'd like her support on.

We're confident we've given our son the best start by sending him to Shirley - and he'll miss her terribly when he starts at full-time nursery school. We're really hoping Shirley will have a space available for our daughter when the time comes, too, because I honestly don't know what we'd do without her!