Our daughter has spent 2½ very happy years with Sophie, who is a wonderful childminder. Sophie not only provides a really loving and supporting environment for the children, but also a fantastic range of outdoor activities with plenty of time running around in the nearby park, 'helping' to grow vegetables or visits to nearby toddler groups and playcentres.

At home, Sophie has been great in coming up with fun activities that have really helped our daughter with things such as fine motor skills and basic pre-school learning. Plus fantastic food, dressing up, creativie play such as painting, as well as encouraging independence and an emphasis on learning things such as good manners and tidying up. There's also a nice range of ages, giving our daughter the chance to get used to being around children both younger and older than she is.

Sophie's communication has been great throughout, with regular updates and lovely photos of what our daughter has been up to.

Knowing that our daugher is being looked after by someone as caring as Sophie has been fantastic. We couldn't recommend her more highly.

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