Welcome to Bonding School, your number one family service provider voted (Best Community Business) Strive Business Awards 2015.
We are dedicated to giving you the best services, with a focus on families, bonding, life skills, and amazing childcare.
Our Director Teamara Adams registered Bonding School in October 2013, after writing plans during any lightbulb moments that she had, whilst working as an SEN Teaching Assistant. Communications with a range of children, constantly had her questioning her path, how she bonded with her family, what she felt was missing, and what she could do to make a difference for other families.
Her past led her to become passionate about raising her own talented, happy, educated, loving family, as well as being a devoted carer and educator to other children and families around her.
Bonding School has come a long way from its humble beginnings upstairs in her twin’s bedroom where she first piloted family sessions to groups of her friends.
When Teamara first started out, her passion for encouraging families and children to bond together, through learning a range of different life skills, and encouragement from other parents, drove her to do intense research and quit her day job as an SEN Teaching Assistant.
Quitting her job did not come lightly, as she loved her job role, but as she was planning to build and operate Bonding Schools services during weekends and school holidays, her own childcare issues arose just after half-term, which happened to be the same half-term in which Teamara gained funding for Bonding School.
She took this as a sign, and has been a Registered Childminder for 7 years, working alongside other passionate assistants including her partner, Gavin.
Whilst running Bonding School, they become oversubscribed and they decided to take a leap of faith to open their first nursery, Bonding School Nurseries.
So Let’s ‘Bond Together Stay Together’.
Doreen Jean Barton
STAFF PROFILES
TEAMARA ADAMS
Position: Director / Practitioner
Childcare Experience: Mother, 8 Years Agency & Ofsted Registered Childminder, Pre-School Room Leader, SEN Teaching Assistant, Childminding Assistant, Nanny, & Self-Published Children’s Author.
Education/Certificates:
Enhanced DBS
Paediatric First Aid
NCFE CACHE L3 Award in Preparing to Work in Home Based Childcare
NCFE Level 2 Award In Support Work In Schools
First Steps Healthy Early Years London Certificate
L3 Food Hygiene & Safety (Supervisor)
L2 Food Hygiene & Safety (Catering)
Care Planning
Care Certificate
Preventing Radicalisation
Person Centered Care
Communication & Record Keeping
Child Sexual Exploitation Awareness
Managing Challanging Behaviour Promoting Positive Behaviour
Safeguarding Of Children Advanced
Conflict Resolution
Disability Awareness
GDPR Awareness
Health & Safety Awareness
Moving And Handling Of People Awareness
Nappy Changing and toileting
GAVIN ALDRIDGE
Position: C0-Founder / Practitioner
Childcare Experience: Father, SEN Music Tutor, 5 years as a Childminding Assistant.
Education/Certificates:
Enhanced DBS
Paediatric First Aid
Food Safety & Hygiene
Child Safeguarding Level 1 & 2
FGM
Becoming A Manager
Mental Health & Young People
Food Hygiene
Positive Behaviour In The Early Years
COSHH
Other Interesting info: Gavin is a musician, who has a very wide imagination and enjoys creating music and fashion garments in his spare time.
He is also a happy naturally gifted carer who children adore.
DENISE BURRELL
Position: Nursery Manager (Bromley)
Childcare Experience: Mother, Deputy Nursery Manager, 15 years of early years experience working in nurseries.
Education/Certificates:
Enhanced DBS
Cache Level 3 NVQ in Children’s care, Learning and Development
Becoming a manager L2
Safeguarding Level 1, 2 & 3
Autism Awareness
Makaton Level 1
Level 2 Health & Safety
FGM
Food Hygiene
Allergens
Ofsteds Early Years Inspection Framework
Positive Behaviour In Early Years L2
Safer Recruitment L2
Data Protection & The GDPR L2
RONDA TURNER
Position: Nursery Teacher/Yoga Session Provider
Childcare Experience: Ronda is our part time Nursery Teacher who is also the Founder of Help Me Ronda Coaching.
She delivers weekly Storytelling Yoga sessions linked to our monthly themes; which encompass movement whilst nurturing wellbeing and holistic development through engaging and thought-provoking activities.
The sessions boost children’s confidence, self-regulation, flexibility, balance and posture.
Her experience as a Primary School Teacher, holds her in high esteem to teach phonics to our children aswell, as she really values the importance of early years literacy.
Education/Certificates:
Qualified Yoga and Mindfulness Teacher
Qualified Teacher Status
First Class Honours Degree in Early Years Childhood Studies
Current DBS
NSPCC Safeguarding Certificate
Paediatric First Aid Certificate
TYAN JONES
Position: Dramagical Session Provider
Childcare Experience: Tyan is the Founder and Director of Dramagical –
Self empowering musical storytelling workshops.
She creates safe spaces filled with excitement and emotion where children are the main character in their own self empowering story.
She delivers weekly culturally diverse musical storytelling workshops, linked to our monthly themes, aswell as themes including hair, race, manners, family dynamics, friendship, love, kindness, loss, worry, heroes, role models, and channeling your inner King and Queen; with added British Sign Language.
Education/Certificates:
BA Hons Theatre
Academy of Play and Child Psychotherapy Introductory Course
Mental Health First Aider
BSL Level 3
