By The Brook Childminding

27/09/2026

🌿 BY THE BROOK CHILDMINDING IS RETURNING! 🌿

I’m so excited to announce that By The Brook Childminding will be reopening! 🐻💚

After stepping away from childminding to pursue a different career path, I’ve realised that my heart has always been in providing children with a warm, nurturing and homely environment where they feel happy, secure and valued.

Following my recent redundancy from my Nursery Practitioner role, I’m taking the opportunity to return to what I love — and I couldn’t be more excited to welcome By The Brook families back. 🌱

✨ I’m currently in the process of re-registering and preparing everything behind the scenes, with the hope of reopening by the end of the year, all being well.

I’ll be offering:

🌿 A warm, home-from-home environment
🎨 Play-based learning and meaningful experiences
🌳 Plenty of outdoor play and exploration
📚 A strong focus on children’s individual development
💚 Small numbers and a personal approach
🏡 A setting where children can learn, grow and simply be themselves

📅 Spaces will be available
Term time, Monday–Thursday, 8am–5.30pm.

If you’re looking for a small, nurturing and family-focused setting for your child, please send me a message to register your interest.

I’ll be sharing updates here as registration progresses, so follow the page and keep an eye out for more! 👀🌿

By The Brook Childminding — growing little minds, one adventure at a time. 💚

27/09/2026

19/05/2025

1 Space Available on Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays from September 2025.
Message for more information.

19/05/2025

Recently the children have been observing the miraculous metamorphosis of caterpillars into butterflies 🦋 sparking curiosity and wonder in the natural world and providing lots of opportunity for language development as well as building personal skills like observation and patience. The older children also used their mathematical skills for sequencing, measuring and counting.

16/03/2025

The importance of child led play.

24/01/2025

Some very tasty home cooked food, using all fresh ingredients.
After a successful game of freezer Tetris it’s all stored ready for the children to enjoy when I return from Maternity leave next month.
The 7 veg sauce was blitzed down to a smooth sauce to hide all those nutritious vegetables. 🤫And the blueberry pancake bites have no added sugar at all, just bursting with berry goodness. 🫐

11/01/2025

We had a fantastic time this week making potions. We expanded our language with words like foam, bubble, fizz, crackle, shimmer and sparkle. We also explored maths concepts like full, half full, empty and brought number into the activity by adding 1 sq**rt to the potion and giving it 2 stirs. The children enjoyed exploring what happened when adding the different powders to water and found it very exciting when they potion bubbles over the bowl 😆

06/12/2024

Christmas colouring.
Little miss is understanding about staying in the lines when colouring in and her fine motor skills and pen control are really improving. She is consistently choosing marker pens over pencils now and has also applied Christmas theme stamps to some pictures.
She was free to colour as she wished and I love the extras she’s applied to the pictures.

15/11/2024

Spaces are now available for January/February 2025. Please get in touch for more information and to arrange a viewing. 💫

13/12/2023