Happy Tots
Childminder in Surrey Heath (also available for babysitting)
Usually responds within 3 days
Female Member since Jan 2012 Last Updated Mar 2025 Last Login Mar 2025
My Summary
A Wonderful Mix Of Having A Home Based Childcare Setting With A Qualified Early Years Teacher
About Me
'OFSTED RATED OUTSTANDING'
Hello,
My name is Rachael and I am an 'Outstanding' childminder who has been educating and caring for little ones for 25 years, and as well as having two daughters of my own, I am a qualified NNEB nursery nurse and hold a Early Years Degree and a NVQ level 3 in Child care learning and development.
I have been on many courses to improve my practice and am constantly looking at new ways to improve and training opportunities. I am qualified in Paediatric First Aid and renew this qualification every 3 years. As a Registered Childminder, I and all members of my family are police checked as suitable people to look after children and I am regularly inspected by OFSTED (graded 'Outstanding' in February 2020, April 2016 & July 2012)
My aim is to provide a safe, friendly and interesting environment where your child will feel both secure and happy, and that you in turn will be able to return to work knowing that your child is well cared for.
I live in a detached 4 bedroom house just off the A325 in Camberley, close to Prior Heath school & Frimley Park hospital with my husband, my youngest daughter and our small and friendly dog, Freddie.
I have wonderful facilities including a large bright playroom offering the children free choice of many different toys and resources in a cosy and welcoming environment.
Enclosed garden with Wendy house, reading hut, sand and water play, mud kitchen, bug hotel, explorative play area, gardening patch and ride ons.
At Happy Tots, children can enjoy painting, sticking, role play, construction, small world toys, cooking, gardening, and many other activites.
Daily outings can include; parks, forest play, soft play, gym, library, rhyme time, toddler groups and visits to the farm,, zoo and national trust sites.
My Experience
More than 25 years experience of caring for and educating young babies and children.
I started my career as a Nursery Nurse in a day nursery followed by nannying for private families, caring for children aged 6 weeks to 10 years, including children with special educational needs and twins!
Managed a pre school and a Registered 'Outstanding' Childminder at every inspection.
Safeguarding Children Trainer.
Many excellent references available on request.
My Qualifications
Early Years Education Degree
Childrens Care, Learning and Development NVQ Level 3
NNEB
Paediatric First Aid
Safeguarding Children Board - Multi Agency Modules 1, 2 & 3
Train the Trainer
Effective Family Resilience & Levels of Need
Online Safety & Prevent
Emotional Health in the Early Years
Emotions matter
Early Help & Assessment
Inclusion and the Code Of Practice (Additional needs)
Food Hygiene
Early Arts
Every Child A Talker (ECAT)
Development training;
Supporting Childrens Speech & Language development
Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum
Letters and Sounds
Occupational Therapy
Observations
Planning for the EYFS
Children as Communicators
Block Play
Leadership and Management
My Availability
Currently no availability until January 2026.
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My Fees
- Babysitting from £12.00 per hour
- Childminding from £7.50 per hour
Daily fees include all meals, snacks, nappies, wipes, activities & outings.
Accept most Vouchers & 15 hours & 30 hours Goverment Free Entitlement for 9 month olds, 2 & 3 & 4 year olds.
My Local Schools
This childminder has not yet informed us whether or not they provide any drop off or pick up services at local schools.
My Ofsted Inspections
The inspection grades below have been obtained from the Ofsted website based upon the registration number the childminder has provided to us. You should verify this information yourself prior to using the childminder.
My Documents
- UK Passport (added 06/11/2022)
- UK Driving Licence (added 06/11/2022)
- Ofsted Certificate (added 06/11/2022)
- DBS Check (added 06/11/2022)
- Training Certificate (added 06/11/2022)
- First Aid Certificate (added 06/11/2022)
Reviews
5 out of 5
Latest reviews
Below are the latest reviews for Happy Tots. Please note that reviews represent the subjective opinions of other Childcare.co.uk members and not of Childcare.co.uk. Parents must carry out their own checks and references on childcare providers to ensure that they are completely happy before enaging in the use of their services.
Finding the right childminder is not easy but when I met Rachael for the first time I knew she was the right one for our son ☺️.
A true professional with many years of experience and most importantly doing it with love and devotion.
Rachael has always been very creative in her way of teaching the kids, through all sorts of activities, always spending a lot of the day outside exploring nature and learning new skills.
Our son stayed with her up until reception. She made sure he was more than well prepared and guiding us, the parents through the process too. She’s helped our son grow into a kind, gentle and clever boy, always supporting and leading him on the right direction.
Our son loved the time spent at Happy tots as well as Rachael and her wonderful family. We were truly lucky and so very grateful!
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Dayana
on 14/02/2024
Rachael is a fantastic childminder. Loving and kind to Jack, a beautiful and welcoming home and family. She provides both a fun and educational environment and has been such a support to us as a family. She sets good boundaries for the children and keeps us up to date on Jacks progress as well as photos of him out and about having fun. I love the fact he has a home environment but goes out daily on adventures to play areas, parks, classes, farms etc
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on 07/02/2018
The best telephone call I ever made was to Rachel before I had to return to work ! My son has been going to her for over 2 years now and loves every minute. He gets to do so many activities, go to exciting places and interact with lots of children as Rachael does so much with the children in her care.
Would totally and utterly recommend her to anyone looking for a warm, caring and fun childminder with a great family and warm, friendly environment for the children.
Also cooks every day for the children - my son loves her food!
An amazing lady all round : )
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Joanna_1
on 25/11/2014
Rachael is a super childminder! As a person she is conscientious, kind and caring, with great communication skills. Rachael has a wonderful, warm and safe environment for the children in her care.
Our son was very happy to go to Rachael every morning. Each day was filled with fun and appropriate activities and routines. Our son was intergrated into Rachaels family, building personal bonds with all members.
As first time parents, Rachael went above and beyond to help us, outside of 'working hours', and ease the transition to parenthood. We will be eternally grateful. Our family has benefited tremendously from meeting and working with Rachael.
It is only due to a change in our circumstance that we must, very sadly, leave Rachael.
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on 06/06/2012
Rachael is a lovely childminder, with years of experience in childcare including raising her own. We all took to Rachael the moment we meet, she is very friendly, patient and great with my 1 year old son.
Since day one it has been nothing but smiles from my little one which is not surprising when he has such a great time with her and her family.
Its made returning to work very easy as I know he is in good hands.
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on 01/06/2012
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