Sarapark

About Me

Hello, my name is Sara - OUTSTANDING - specialist EARLY YEARS ONLY CHILDMINDER, caring for 9 months - 4 year olds.



I am the Owner/manager of Park View Childminding, We are an Outstanding childcare setting, located in the Thornes area of wakefield.

I also run my own early years consultancy service, supporting other early years childcare providers locally and nationally.

Here at Park View, we are a very caring, nurturing team who strive to provide the best care and education for your child in a calm, happy and positive, home from home and very enriching environment where children learn and explore through play and meaningful, high quality interactions.

Our fantastic location means that we have access to all of our superb local amenities such as Thornes park, Wakefield one library and Museum, The Hepworth gallery, toddler groups and a soft play centre, as well as the beautiful rural walks around pugneys water park. We also love to explore in the wider world with amazing outings.


I am a qualified nursery nurse with experience of working as a nanny and in school. I have 3 grown up children and I am an Ofsted registered childminder. I am situated very close to The Thornes road area of Thornes.

We have a beautiful setting with an amazing and fantastically equipped playroom that supports every aspect of a child's development and this allows free - flow exploration and engagement, with the indoor and outdoor resources and play spaces. We pride ourselves on our clean and safe environment for children to learn through play.

The playroom opens into our extremely secure outdoor play area. It is an amazing play space equipped with an eclectic and exciting mix of resources that have been developed by my amazing assistant who is an early years specialist. My assistant has also helped many local authority early years settings in the district, to set up and arrange their play environment to make them better and more succesful for children to learn and play in.

We are both highly qualified and highly skilled practitioners. We also both have training in paediatric first aid and food hygiene as well as training in food allergens
We are fully training in advanced child protection and safeguarding.

We are a team of highly qualified and experienced early years experts and have our own early years consultancy service, which is run alongside my childminding business. I also work as a freelance consultant area lead, for the childminder mentor programme which is run by the Department for Education.

My assistant who is also an early years specialist and qualified early years teacher. He had been trained as an ofsted and agency inspector of early years and has also worked as a moderator of early years for Wakefield Authority early years team.

Contact us for information regarding spaces and availability
We have a waiting list that's free to join.

Contact us to arrange a visit and check whether you qualify for a funded childcare place with us, offering government funded places for eligible 2,3 and 4 year olds.

Our ethos is that children learn through play, in a happy, nurturing and very caring home from home environment, where they are cared for and supported to enable them to develop to their fullest potential.


We provide the children with lots of enriching opportunities to learn and explore in the wider world, with fantastic trips and outings that build upon each child's experiences of the world around them.

We work in close partnership with parents and carers to get to know your child. We record each childs development and progress as an individual child and this information will be shared with parents and carers at regular intervals, in our patent and carer reviews. The reviews are a chance for us to chat and talk about your child and their care, as well as their progress. We are a friendly and approachable professional team, with your childs best interests and safety always at heart.

We provide fantastic food and balanced nutrition with home cooked meals. We support breast feeding mums too.

My husband who is my registered assistant, after being an early years reception teacher for 30 years, as well as an early years moderator for Wakefield education authority. He has two degrees in early years and is an excellent teacher who will be able to help get the children off to an excellent educational start, before they begin their formal education journey at school.

We support the "Whole Child" and their learning and development across the seven areas of learning.

We have memberships for National Trust and Lotherton bird gardens and we often do amazing walks with the children and have some amazing outdoor story sessions on our walks, that are so much fun!

We have a brand new car which was chosen for its high safety standard awards, to ensure the children are as safe as possible when travelling.

We have a close working relationship with our Local Authority early years team and we often deliver early years training to other childminders out of working hours.

I am an approved Local Authority provider of funded places for 2, 3 and 4 year old children and we also offer the 30 hours funding subject to eligability and space.
We also accept childcare choices payments.

My registration certificate and DBS certificate are available to view when you visit us.

I welcome visits with you and your child to my setting to meet for a friendly chat about your childcare needs, so please dont hesitate to contact me. I look forward to hearing from you.

if you would like an Emailed information pack about Park View Childminding, please message us with your email address and we will send it to you.