Nancy is amazing. With my maternity coming to an end, we were debating whether to put our son, George, into a nursery or with a childminder. At the time George was 9 months old and I was so worried about leaving him while he was so little. After a few settling in sessions we decided to put George in with Nancy, and we definately feel we made the right choice.

When George went in full time, Nancy was so reassuring and would regularly communicate throughout the day how George was doing, and would summarise in a Daily Log book. We always receive formal updates on his milestone progress with helpful little tips on what they were learning and we can do at home to help George with his development.

We spoke to Nancy a few times about our concerns with what we thought was a delay in George's speech, and she reassured us that he was fine and gave us activities to do with George, which she also did and now, we can't get him to stop talking.

George has made lots of friends whilst being with Nancy, the children all gel extremely well and I think this is a credit to Nancy. She's always off taking them for a new adventure, they do park visits, farm visits, safari parks, picnics, sports day, Halloween and Christmas parties and much more. When we're off on holiday we've been asked to take him a little Paddington Bear to take with us and take pictures, so that he can share his pictures with his friends when he gets home. George absolutely loves being there with his friends and it has never been a struggle to take him in and leave him.

George's relationship with Nancy is wonderful. Nancy is very caring and very patient with George, and is teaching him so much. Every week he has come home with bits of craft work that he has created that week, from road safety, healthy eating, manners to pirates, celebrations of different religions and commemorating Remembrance Day. He often comes home with different books that we are encouraged to read with him. She is so flexible and accommodates our sometimes changing hours, with my husband having to do shift work, and at short notice. I know that if an accident ever happens he is well looked after, I'm informed of the incident and George is happy to receive cuddles from Nancy until we pick him up.

During the pandemic Nancy was so so helpful, whilst we had George initially due to government instructions, as soon as she possibly could she had George, as my husband and I are key workers. In the time that she couldn't have George, she kept us informed of all the ever changing guidance and checked in on us regularly. She set up calls with George over Facetime, and as he celebrated his birthday during lockdown, she managed to reach out to all the parents of his playmate's to ask if all the children could sing him a happy birthday song and send is through. Which he absolutely loved. It's the little, personal things like this which make her so amazing.

Last year Jo joined Nancy and Jo is also incredible. George had spent time with Jo as Nancy would often meet up with Jo when Jo was childminding and they would take all their children to play with each other or picnic together. I've seen Jo on the floor with the children and is really engaging with them, I often think that George forgets that she's not his age when he talks about the fun things they have done.

Nancy and Jo have been so helpful in getting George school ready, they have been encouraging him with his writing and independence skills, we've noticed how much he is changing. We often get helpful activities we can again do to help them be more school ready, and Nancy and Jo will tell us on a personal level what we can do specifically to help George.

Whilst we are excited George is starting a new chapter at school, we are sad that he's leaving Nancy and Jo. Thankfully, George will be returning to Nancy and Jo for some of the school holidays.

I could not recommend Nancy enough, and I thank her for all that she has done for George and for us.

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