Marlene's Reviews

Couldn't be happier

Our daughter has been at Marlene's since she was 8 months old and there was never a day when she was not excited to go. The setting is always very clean and with an impressive range of toys and educational activities (books, messy play, bread baking, butterfly garden, etc). Marlene creates a welcoming family environment and the children love to join in the daily activities, which fosters independence. Marlene gives us lots of feedback and tips on how to deal with upcoming challenges. With Marlene's encouragement and support our daughter completed her potty training shortly after she turned two. Marlene organises lots of indoor and outdoor activities in local parks, London Zoo, Transport Museum, and regularly joins play groups with other local childminders. We couldn't be happier!

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by Henrique about Marlene on 15/05/2021

Excellent!

My daughter has been going to Marlene’s since she is 12 months old. She will start school next September. Our experience with Marlene has been excellent.
She provides a personalised approach, with several outdoor activities (museums, zoo, parks, children groups), and early education, in a very clean and safe environment. She has a lot of teaching materials (books interactive toys, etc), and she organises a lot of activities which allow the children to explore and understand their environment (they are currently waiting for caterpillars to hatch into butterflies). Over the last three years, my daughter was always happy to go to Marlene’s.
Highly recommended!

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by Manuel about Marlene on 13/05/2021

Highly recommended

Our 18 month old daughter has been with Marlene for the last 6 months and we couldn't be happier. Marlene provides a nurturing and homely setting, with an emphasis on fun as well as learning new skills. As new parents we were really nervous about leaving her but felt confident with Marlene's approach from day one. We get lots of feedback, photos and videos of how she is doing. She had lots of cuddles when needed and settled quickly into a great routine for nap time. We love that they do activities like baking and story time at home, as well as go out to groups and excursions. She has already been to several museums, London zoo many times, and many local parks. The children she looks after seem to stay for several years, and we can see why.

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by Laura about Marlene on 12/12/2018

Amazing childminder in Islington

I found Marlene using this site a week before I was due to go back to work from maternity leave, and she quickly accomodated to my needs. Obviously, as a parent of a young baby, chosing the right person to look after your little one can be a difficult and daunting decision, and I definitely made the right one.

From the start, my son was given a settling in period and he adjusted to this environment extremely quickly. Her house is child safe, clean and is a great place for children to be. All the children she looks after love being in her company and she has a lovely husband and two children who my son adores. She is very active, taking the children on regular field trips and to the local children's centre. One of my worries was that my son wouldn't get the interaction with other babies like he would have done at nursery, but I soon realised this wasn't the case at all. I have been impressed at how quickly he has been developing and every week, he's picking up new things.

I was very impressed at her attention to detail. She keeps a journal and writes daily updates of what your child does, what they eat, nap times (and duration) with a summary of how they are getting on. This is reassuring as even though I'm not there during his day, I feel like I have a real insight into what has been going on.

Marlene is a kind and caring individual, who really loves and enjoys being a childminder. I would highly recommend her to anyone.

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by Parent about Marlene on 01/07/2012