Helenb

About Me

Hello! Thank you for reading my profile.
I have recently closed my childminding business after over 20 years and I am now looking to help a family as a nanny.
I can offer a happy, warm, loving, consistent & secure relationship with you and your child.
I can bring all of my experience of delivering an Early Years education to children under the age of 5, giving them the life skills, firm foundation of knowledge, and social skills that they need to prepare them for school. This includes planning for learning experiences that will take us out and about and socialising with other children and adults on a daily basis.
I strive to be flexible, reliable and professional, and to always meet your families needs which can be discussed in detail should you wish to use me.
We would go out and about most days to community and group events and activities, including Rhyme Time at the library, Little Nature Explorer sessions (Forest School style activites at a variety of local woodlands and parks), softplay & Stay & Play sessions, allotment, National Tust properties, Westonbirt, Corsham Court and local parks.This will help to support your child's social skills amongst a larger group of familiar children and adults within their community, and about their community itself.
Access to outdoor activities on a daily basis, whether it be looking out for birds & insects on a walk to the park, visiting the allotment to look after the flowers & veg, bug hunting in the garden or collecting pine cones and sticks at the woods has so many wonderful benefits, that I am passionate about being outdoors as much as is possible.
We also make regular visits to the library, various local places of interest, Whitehall Garden Centre, Lacock park and Abbey and Boomerang soft play centre, or go further afield, to places such as Westonbirt, Bath City Farm, Brokers Wood, Avon Valley Railway, Rocks East Woods, and Bradford on Avon park/canal walk. We make the most of our lovely location and your local community by going out every day.
I can join my childminder colleagues to provide group activities ensuring that your child has plenty of socialisation with their peers, creating lovely friendship groups.
I can provide a truly unique service that will enable your child to play & learn without the confines of a nursery or preschool.
We would have lots of fun at home doing activities such as cooking, junk modelling, sensory play, den building, singing & dancing, dressing up, arts & crafts, storytime, growing our own veg & flowers in the garden, sand and water play, block play and of course lots of free play where the children can use their imaginations to lead their play with home corner toys, dressing up, cars, train sets, lights & sounds toys, musical instruments, tents etc, depending what toys you have at home. For those little book worms that like to get lost in the world of their favourite characters or look at pictures of their latest interest such as dinosaurs, tractors, Princesses, Pirates, animals or diggers, time will always be made for storytime and going places that encourage reading and the love of books.
I have access to a wide range of resources to plan indoor and outdoor activities using the experience gained whilst childminding and would use any particular interests that the children may have to extend their learning whilst they play.
I encourage child-led play which allows the children to let their imaginations run wild & truly be themselves. I also work closely with parents to provide activities that incorporate each child's current interest so that they want to engage and ensure that their learning is fun.
I am knowledgeable about children's development and experienced in risk assessing & how to safeguard children.
I have experience with children of all ages and really enjoy the company of older children too.
I am available for school and club drop offs and pick ups and school holidays.
I hope that this has given you a good idea of what I can offer your family as your nanny.
I have current Pediatrics first aid and Safeguarding certificates.
Do you need school holiday care only? I can offer school holiday only contracts and lots of fun activities and days out for children aged 5 to 10 years old.

I am very happy to perform light housework, running errands, shopping, washing etc and prepare simple homemade meals and snacks for the children.
Also happy to care for small pets. I love dogs and cats especially and have two Cockapoos and a cat of my own.
By all means please get in touch if you have any questions x