Kellycare has been the ideal early years setting for our daughter - the best we could have hoped for. It was recommended to us by a local family and we can see why most of her families come to her by word-of-mouth. It was by far the nicest childminder setting we saw - and we visited a lot!

Kelly's home setting is such a beautiful space, with a large, well laid-out playroom ideal for the children's learning and play and very well equipped. There is a homely kitchen for the children's meals and both spaces lead out to the garden where there are outdoor play resources and a climbing frame. It’s like a little nursery, but with the close relationships and consistency of carers that comes with a childminder – this has been the best of both worlds for us. Kelly formed such a caring, supportive relationship with our daughter as did her wonderful assistant who is also brilliant with the children. Our daughter's had lots of individual attention and it's obvious she's flourished because of it - in her learning and development but also in growing into being a happy, confident child who looks forward each day to coming to Kellycare and comes home full of happy stories each day. She's also benefitted from playing daily with slightly older toddlers and we feel this has boosted her learning.

Our daughter has learned a lot in her time with Kelly - Kelly does not simply provide care but is also an experienced early years educator and integrates learning into the play, activities and outings the children go on. The activities provided clearly have an impact on her as she comes home being able to do things we wouldn’t have thought to introduce to her yet, eg. identifying letters in her name and counting to large numbers. We have really appreciated the exciting outings you have taken the children on, giving our daughter lots of new experiences and fun with the other children.

Kelly has always communicated well with us as parents, giving us daily updates at pick-up and sending through ad-hoc updates and photos through WhatsApp during the day. We also receive monthly home learning packs that outline our daughter's achieved milestones and next steps. Kelly has always been flexible with us around adding extra childcare days, switching days etc, and this has been really helpful for us as working parents.

Kelly has expertly prepared our daughter for joining her big brother at school in the autumn. We feel very lucky to have been recommended Kellycare and are very happy that our daughter gets to spend her days away from us with you. Our daughter will definitely be coming back to you in the school holidays. Thank you for taking such good care of her!

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