Gillie L

About Me

YOU WORK HARD TO LOOK AFTER YOUR CHILDREN……………..SO DO I ............


Hi there, my name is Gill/Gillie the children seem to prefer to call me Gillie, so either is cool.

I have been child minding now for 30 years, and have adapted to many changes over the years. I have been approved by Ofsted to work together from my home with my daughter Katie Shepherd we have now been working together for the pasted 3 years. My daughter Katie has been in child care for the past 4 years and has a level 2 in childcare, she has been DBS approved and also taken her Safeguarding level 2 and holds a current valid first aid certificate. Working together enables us to offer our parents continuity of care to our children while also offering more flexibility too. This is a great advantage to parents as it means we can easily look after families with siblings. It also means that you get two child minders for the price of one!!!! We open 52 weeks of the year, but we are closed on bank holidays.

I have three children of my own Kieran(32) Katie(29) and Zack (20). My eldest son (know to many as my boomer rang child...left home came back left home).....he has now left the building and is happily married. Katie is also now back with me! katie stays here in the week to assist me with the children. I think that they must all have Australian heritage!!! My youngest son still lives with me, working in sola Energy. So it's now one down two to go!!! I miss them really....but not the mess!!
We live in a quiet cul-de-sac and have a large spacious ground floor area, which the children have full access to.
The kitchen is used for messy play ie: painting, play dough (home made) sticking, gluing and colouring etc..
We have a wide range of educational and stimulating toys that covers ages from weeks old to 5 years. The toys are kept in boxes and are rotated daily according to the ages that we are caring for that day. There’s an area for reading and for the children to sit and snuggle or just sit to have quiet time if they so wish.

My garden is fairly large and at the bottom of the garden I have an area which has playground safety mats where the children can play. There's a slide, see-saw, sand pit, various bikes, scooters, dolls prams/push chairs, water play and a mud kitchen play area…. If the weathers nice in the summer I also get the paddling pool and water spray pool out!

We like to take the children out for picnic’s, walks in the woods, to various ponds to feed the ducks, animal parks, cinema trips as there’s two of us it makes this possible as we can split numbers according to the activity. All of which is caught on our camera's, so you won’t miss a thing.

There are many advantages of having a child minder as it becomes home from home for them. This is important especially for the younger ones. Over the years we have looked after many children youngest being 6 weeks old. Most have stayed with me for many years, until such time that a house move or school re-location intervenes. This is obviously a sad time for us, as after many years of seeing them develop and grow we then have to say goodbye but stay in touch. Though we still carry the fond memories of their valuable time spent with us.

Children need to feel relaxed and confident, so you can do your job effectively. We feel confident that this is achieved 100%. We have an open-door policy so if you have any worries we're here to help at any time.

I have Level 3 in childcare, along with other certificates for Behavior Management, Food Safety, Safeguarding, and First Aid. We follow the EYFS requirements, and I am a member of Pacey.
We take vouchers and Child Tax Credits.