Loretta Youngs Childminding Services

🔥 Another action packed week for The Grasmere Gang!

We hired a boat and took a leisurely river trip, seeing horses, goats, various birds, lots of fish and negotiated passing many swans and a big cruiser boat (yes the people waved lol) The children loved their whistles built into their life jackets and behaved impeccably as expected. Prior to the boat we had a nice walk in a forest.

A fun morning was had at the MK beach complete with buckets and spades, deckchairs and a fabulous Punch & Judy show. (So enjoyable we watched it twice actually!) While there we had a quick game of table tennis too.

One morning we called into our favourite toddler group where the Littles utilised their fabulous resources both inside and outside. Afterwards we went to the attached park and used our physical skills to jump, climb and balance. On the way home we stopped off to see the Disney Mater car

We had a brilliant time with our Theatre group in a park and the woods where the theme was ‘the seaside’. There were many games, fun and singing all centred on the seaside and we took the opportunity to enjoy that parks apparatus while we were there too.

We became Graffiti Kids playing football in the Graffiti Tunnel which is always a hit. Afterwards we picked blackberries, fed the best ducks in the world, found a random horse and went train spotting in our favourite place.

One lunchtime we went to McDonalds for lunch as requested by this weeks school leaver. Needless to say everyone enjoyed! This Little is leaving after 2 years, she’s been a pleasure to care for and we wish her all the best at big school and just know she’ll absolutely smash it.

At home we watched Punch & Judy in preparation for the real thing since nobody knew who they were and the Littles were totally engrossed. We carefully cut up different fruits to make fruit kebabs which the children took home. They created beautiful blossom trees using ear sticks dipped in paint, did wooden placing puzzles and had a wicked session of Jenga. We used our fruit and vegetable cards to talk about healthy eating and picked out and discussed our favourite things. We drew around our feet to compare how much we’d grown since the previous recording. The Littles had stories about starting school and spent time doing educational activities on our tablets. We also had a great singing and music session with all of our instruments. Our school leaver received cards and presents and of course we had our regular session of Grasmere Fitness where we got our hearts pumping and our faces smiling.

Booosh! 💥
(…..and you wouldn’t get none of this stuck in a Nursery I tell ya!)

🔥🔥🔥 One September childcare place remaining 🔥🔥🔥

1 Monday to Thursday place available (4 days)

This place is available all year round between 9am-5pm for a child aged approximately 22+ months in order to fit in with existing and new children starting. (I could possibly split the 4 days into 2x2 days)

* Can accept 30hrs Funded children
* Fully insured PACEY Member and ICO Registered
* Paediatric First Aid trained
* 35 years continuous Ofsted Registration
* Numerous EXCELLENT parental references and reviews
* 200+ Certificates of further training undertaken
* Conveniently located by Kempston Sainsburys
* Can accept all Government Funding/Tax Free Childcare payments & all Workplace Vouchers.

Please note: I do not offer any Nursery, preschool or school drops/collections or shared Funding.

Please visit www.childcare.co.uk/profile/loretta-young for lots more in depth information. There are many excellent parental reviews on there plus this page under the reviews section.

You’re welcome to call me on 07736 644977 to discuss your individual childcare requirements.

We had our annual Sports Day event in the secret place we found a couple of weeks back and very fabulous it was too! The children used all their skills to run, jump, climb, negotiate, throw, catch and balance. Top marks for listening carefully and remembering the next part of the course. Everyone had a certificate and a medal too.

One morning we took a bus ride into town and spent some lovely time alongside and admiring the river. We then had great fun in the giant Sand Pit which was complete with buckets and spades. More excitement on the way home as the bus was a double decker so obviously we sat up the top and sung ‘that song’ lol.

A nice relaxed morning was had in Elstow although the church was locked. We checked the progress on the new building which was exactly zero. We filled watering cans and watered some flowers and finished off with football on the village green under the shade of the trees. We also spent time in the Remembrance Garden where we sat quietly and spoke about the things we remembered-some of which were corkers!

We spent time at a different park for us where the children loved exploring. There were lots of balancing opportunities for them to utilise and they had the whole park to themselves. There was a lovely ‘we will miss you’ banner attached so we had a sneaky photo op for our biggest 3 children who are leaving us for school. Prior to this we stumbled across a church and cemetery we’d never previously visited.

Another morning we called into our current favourite toddler group. It was lovely and cool inside with wonderful play opportunities outside too. It’s nice the Smalls can still meet up with their friends during the holidays. Of course we finished off with singing and bubbles which is always a hit.

At home we’ve had 2 lots of water play, the dentistry teeth came out for us to remember the importance of dental hygiene, cornflakes with different containers and scoops made a reappearance, we used our blackberries and donned plastic gloves to mark make on a long roll of paper, the Littles stuck road track stickers on the floor to make a track for their cars and we used our new ‘magic’ pens to make lots of illusions.

We suffered some epic fails too though and I know everyone loves a fail lol. Most of which happened on the same morning. We went to Wootton Library instead of Bromham Library for an activity morning. Totally my fault but decided anyhow to stay in Wootton since we didn’t have to book the activity originally. While admiring the War Memorial we saw a secret road to investigate which we found led to a Church. Aha all good in our world….however, the Church was locked and they had zero watering cans for the flowers. After a brief look around, we decided to go to a local bakery cart where you open the doors of a cabinet to select things but it was completely empty. We drove and found a field full of cows but basically they didn’t want to know us. We ended up at the balancing park but then struggled to get out their car park with railings, the angle and size of my car. The other fails were to do with the blackberries-firstly the Littles got pretty much covered in purple while picking them including their mouths/faces and their lovely personalised Grasmere Fitness t-shirts, then once home, we forgot about them in our going out bag so didn’t get to eat them and they stayed there all night. The following day we decided to use them for mark making instead due to their sweatiness overnight. We used plastic gloves and cracked on only to realise we’d get left with all the pips on the paper so infact it became a collage!

Other than these hiccups we had a perfect week!

🔥 2 September childcare places still remaining 🥱

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What a fabulous couple of years we’ve had! So many happy memories, laughter and special moments. It’s been an absolute pleasure watching this Little Miss grow, thrive and blossom…..I’m definitely going to miss her when she heads off to big school in September!

Another cracker of a week for The Grasmere Gang. We had fun in a giant maze, visited the Fairy Garden, called into our Museum Club and visited the Museum afterwards. We took a miniature train ride, had a picnic in a forest, visited the Spooky House and fed the ducks. Lots of fun at home too plus one of our new September starters spent some time with us too which was lovely!

🔥 A 4 day and a 2 day September space are still available.

What a busy week! We had a fantastic day at a Splash Park and the Littles got involved in a children’s show in front of the audience. A great visit was had to Stockwood Discovery Centre where in addition to looking at all the marvellous exhibits-we did some nice organised activities within their grounds. We had a lovely sensory morning at Disco Tots (no pics allowed) and a visit to a local park. We revisited our local farm where the children got up close and personal with an array of animals and enjoyed all the activities and apparatus within the farm. We watched a spot of Show Jumping, went shopping for herbs to chop/use within an activity and also shopped for fruit to make ice lollies with which the Littles loved making. We also played with our frogs set up, had lots of pop-up tents out in the garden, used rice within an activity and did both relaxation and Musical Bumps.

Boosh 💥

Woah a bumper addition of pics this week!

We had our last leavers party with our friends over at MK where our 3 leavers received certificates. We enjoyed organised fun in a field, a visit to The Forest Centre, visited our friend the giant dinosaur and spent time in a giant rocket park. We went to a Children’s Hub (no pics allowed) another park, enjoyed activities at a toddler group and fed the ducks at The Mill. We found a fabulous large shaded area with black berries where we now plan to have our upcoming Sports Day. We also fed the ducks and fish at The Wixams and checked out a secret beach.

At home we had cucumbers on our eyes to relax listening to Zen music (not full blown Grasmere Fitness) We became scientists mixing potions of coloured water that got so mixed up…it all went black! Stickle Bricks made an appearance along with the wooden copy puzzles. Jenga was lots of fun, super models were made from Lego and lots of skills were used with giant tweezers collecting the corresponding coloured items into the correct coloured pots. We did mark making on boards with dry wipes, same on paper, and pen control activities in work books.

So week one of the holidays done and we packed so much in. Main thing is as usual we’ve been out and about in our community having so much fun and laughter in different environments with different learning opportunities. Always busy with always happy and smiley Littles…what more could you want!

🔥 As 3 full time children are sadly leaving us for September school starts, this opens up new opportunities (I did post vacancies yesterday on here but will do again here incase any ‘watchers’ missed it). We have 2 cute newbies already confirmed for September and all that remains vacancy wise now is a 2 day and a 4 day place-see C&P’d full details below.

🔥 Please, if you see or know anyone locally looking for quality childcare please share yesterday’s post/tag me on Facebook/give them my details. Thankyou muchly!

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Ofsted Registered Childminder in central Kempston has the following childcare places available from September as little ones head off to big school:

🔥 1 Monday to Thursday place available (4 days)
🔥 1 Monday & Tuesday place available (2 days)

Both places are available all year round between 9am-5pm for children aged approximately 22+ months in order to fit in with existing and new children starting. (I could possibly split the 4 day place into 2x2 days)

* Can accept 30hrs Funded children
* Fully insured PACEY Member and ICO Registered
* Paediatric First Aid trained
* 35 years continuous Ofsted Registration
* Numerous EXCELLENT parental references and reviews
* 200+ Certificates of further training undertaken
* Conveniently located by Kempston Sainsburys
* Can accept all Government Funding/Tax Free Childcare payments & all Workplace Vouchers.

Please note: I do not offer any Nursery, preschool or school drops/collections or shared Funding.

Please visit www.childcare.co.uk/profile/loretta-young for lots more in depth information and also check out my busy page for my weekly posts to see how we rock https://www.facebook.com/LorettaYoungRegisteredChildminder/ There are many excellent reviews on both platforms.

You’re welcome to call me on 07736 644977 to discuss your individual childcare requirements.

Ofsted Registered Childminder in central Kempston has the following childcare places available from September as current little ones head off to big school:

🔥 1 Monday to Thursday place available (4 days)
🔥 1 Monday & Tuesday place available (2 days)

Both places are available all year round between 9am-5pm for children aged approximately 22+ months in order to fit in with existing and new children starting. (I could possibly split the 4 day place into 2x2 days)

* Can accept 30hrs Funded children
* Fully insured PACEY Member and ICO Registered
* Paediatric First Aid trained
* 35 years continuous Ofsted Registration
* Numerous EXCELLENT parental references and reviews
* 200+ Certificates of further training undertaken
* Conveniently located by Kempston Sainsburys
* Can accept all Government Funding/Tax Free Childcare payments & all Workplace Vouchers.

Please note: I do not offer any Nursery, preschool or school drops/collections or shared Funding.

Please visit www.childcare.co.uk/profile/loretta-young for lots more in depth information and also check out my busy page for my weekly posts to see how we rock https://www.facebook.com/LorettaYoungRegisteredChildminder/ There are many excellent parental reviews on both platforms.

You’re welcome to call me on 07736 644977 to discuss your individual childcare requirements.

Childminder in Kempston - Childcare.co.uk 4 day Sept place available-Situated in central Kempston just by Sainsburys, I have been a fully insured Ofsted Registered Childminder for over 30 years. I am a fully Insured NCMA/PACEY Member...

We Tango’d it to another Splash Park this week with our friends from MK. A tad chilly but still lots of fun. While there we had a good mooch about and had a lake side picnic.

A great morning was spent at our music group where the children did lots of lovely singing along with some good tunes on their instruments.

Another morning we had an end of term party at another of our groups where the Littles also enjoined outside fun, had a good old sing and got presented with leaving gifts as they’re off to school in September.

We did lots of activities at our village group where the children met up with their other friends. Of course this involved more singing and more bubbles.

At the end of the week we went to a Children’s Centre but as previously mentioned we’re not allowed to take photos inside any longer. Nevertheless it was all good fun and actually nice to put my phone away and not bother! We had fun both inside and also outside in their newly revamped outside space.

On our travels, we shopped with mini trollies for ice lollies and also fruit for the tortoises, called in a play park, had a quickgame of footy, did some train spotting and fed the best ducks in the world.

At home, we enjoyed our ice lollies, chopped fruit and fed this to the tortoises, played at the sand table, used playdoh, had a request for the miniature dollies, got creative with kinetic sand and used our hand/eye coordination and fine motor skills with pom poms and giant tweezers. For our Grasmere Fitness we did a spot of yoga, some meditation and relaxed to Zen music with cucumbers.

🔥 September spaces post in the next few days as 3 big Littles are off to school 😭

A fans and ice cube rather short week for us with children off and also away on holiday….so much so on Friday I was on my tod! Take a lookie at our fun this week.

We enjoyed a fabulous day at Gulliver’s Land with lots of laughter, excitement and a few screams along the way as you can imagine!

We were invited to celebrate some very special twins turning 2 at a lovely garden party where the children had the chance to catch up with friends and enjoy some food and lots of outdoor fun together.

We also visited 2 of our favourite toddler groups with plenty of imaginative play, singing, dancing and smiles all round.

Our Museum Club focused on numbers this month. There’s always a different theme and the fantastic organisers make learning fun through hands on activities. Afterwards, we took the opportunity to explore the Museum and the children were completely absorbed in the archaeology section wearing hard hats and hi-vis jackets as they discovered the past.

We also visited our favourite ducks (IYKYK!). As always the ducks behaved impeccably.

One afternoon at home the Littles carefully chopped carrots into small pieces using their fine motor skills and excellent concentration. We had planned to feed the 12 horses I’d randomly found the evening before… only to arrive and discover they’d vanished. Either they were only visiting or I’d dreamt the whole thing! Instead, we found a lovely little park complete with a ‘proper’ rocking horse so fun was had there.

We were grateful to receive some Peppa Pig toys from a fellow Childminder who is sadly closing her setting. The children loved creating imaginative adventures with their new piggies who joined all our existing piggies.

Our curiosity continued with some magnetic construction activities. The Littles used critical thinking, problem-solving and fine motor skills to experiment with rods, ball bearings and magnetic shapes creating some amazing masterpieces in the not too hot sunshine.

On Friday we gave Grasmere Fitness a miss as some children were away for various reasons and the remaining two were collected early…..I’m not saying I didn’t do a happy dance instead tho! 😜