Anna

My Summary

My Experience

I have good initiative and create a caring and stimulating environment for the children, this can involve playing games: building very tall lego towers is a skill I’ve been perfecting, as is blankets forts!
Doing arts and crafts, baking, dancing, and playing outdoors, as well as reading and supervise homework, and generally any agreed activities.

I teach baby sign language, as seen in Sing and Sign.
This is the use of manual signing allowing infants and toddlers to communicate emotions, desires, and objects prior to spoken language development.

About the workplace:
I'm open to do light housekeeping chores, and especially keen on cooking meals.
I'm have no problem handling food intolerances and disabilities.
I'm comfortable working in a household with pets: I’m a very committed cat person, but all animals welcome. I'm a non-smoker.

I have experience with children various ages:

Catrin and Emmy - I’m currently looking after these lovely 2 y/o twin sisters, since January 2023 and until January 2025, when the family will move away from Edinburgh. I’m responsible for their meals, daytime activities, naps & outdoors exploring. We travel on public transport all order the city, zoo, museums, parks and soft play are some of their favourites places. Occasionally I will stay overtime and manage bath time, dinner and bedtime routine. One morning a week, with one of their parents, we bring them for swimming lessons.

Taka - I looked after Taka from September 2021 to January 2023, starting when he was 15 months.

He’s an enthusiastic walker, and together we’ve explored all around Edinburgh. Among our favourite outdoor activities there’s visits to the Zoo, Botanics, Gorgie City Farm.
Trips to the Museum, swimming pool, softplay, and toddlers activity groups are often the choice on rainy days, and not forgetting cooking.
Taka is a competent sous-chef, particularly talented in squishing pizza dough and sampling ingredients.

In April 2022 his parents attended an event abroad and I looked after Taka around the clock for a week while they were away. It meant a lot to me to be entrusted so completely with their little one, and it was a truly enriching experience.

Connie - I started when she was 16 months in August 2020 and stayed on until late summer 2021, when her mum went on maternity leave for the arrival of her second baby!
Outdoors activities would take up a lot of our time. We’d play in the garden, where she loves chasing around the family dog and pick up small rocks that inevitably would end up being entrusted to me…
We’d look for frogs and snails, collect leaves to draw their shape, play with the sandpit, plant sunflower seeds.
Among the most important indoors activities is making blankets dens, reading her favourite books, playing tea party with Winnie the Pooh &Co and of course The Tiger Who Came to Tea would often join in as well.
Some of my duties included preparing and supervising her lunch, as we transitioned from being spoon fed to self feeding, with increased confidence. Nap time would follow during which I’d take on some house chores and prep dinner.
Connie was born with hip dysplasia, and at the start of 2021 spent some weeks in a cast to recover from surgery.
During this time I learned to adapt to challenging new routines, but before I knew it Connie was back on her feet and running faster than ever.

Susie and Becky - 3.5 years old and 6 months old (August 2021- ongoing)
Playtime with Susie, who loves keepy-uppy, building things, and playing pretend/make-believe.
Bringing Becky out for her morning nap in the buggy.
+ Evening babysitting

Alfie - 9 months old
Evening babysitting

Elliot - 10 months old
Playtime and outdoors strolls about the neighbourhood

Evan, Zac & Annabeth - 9, 8 and 5 y/o
Daytime, afternoon and evening babysitting, including dropping-off/picking-up from school, playing games (blankets forts are a big favourite!), baking, making fun and creative crafts, reading.

Evie and Hal - I looked after these two rascals for two years, starting in October 2018 when they were 4 and 7 years old, to early autumn 2020, when they moved abroad, taking away a piece of my heart.
Daytime, afternoon and evening babysitting, including dropping-off/picking-up from school and nursery, playing games, baking, making fun and creative crafts, reading, bath, dinner & bedtime routine, trips outside (park, cycling, city centre, local library) supervise activities outside the house (swimming, tennis).

Gwen and Connie – 5 and 7 years old:
Games and reading.

Diana and Diego – 4 and 7 years old:
Picking up from school, afternoon babysitter, playing games, occasional trips outside.

Iacopo – from 5 to 10 years old:
Occasionally over the course of the years: playing games, reading, bed routine, walking to school.

Luisa and Pietro – 5 and 7 years old:
Bedtime routine, games, and reading.

Elisa – 1 to 3 years old:
Day time babysitter, routine, reading, making lunch, playing outdoors.

References available on request.

Further questions:
Please feel free to get in touch with any additional queries and I will try to get back to you as soon as possible.

Every family is unique therefore availability can be further discussed, I will do my best to meet your needs.

My Qualifications

Awarded the Childcare.co.uk Certificate of Excellence 2023

(Expiration date December 31st)

My Availability

I will be available in January 2025.
For the right family an earlier start is not out of the question and can be discussed.

My Fees

• Nannying from £15.00 per hour (gross)

Can be discussed.