Childminder in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 7 October 2015 6 October 2009

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1

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This provision is outstanding

 The childminder's continual drive for improvement and ongoing professional development means that she constantly improves her practice, benefiting children.  Children thrive due to the extremely strong bonds they develop with the childminder. Their individual needs are exceptional well met, and the childminder ensures all children are valued and respected.  The childminder skilfully adapts her involvement with children to accurately target children's identified next steps in their development and provide them with a good level of challenge. This helps all children make rapid progress in their learning and prepares them well for school.  Children receive outstanding support to develop their communication and language.  The childminder has an excellent understanding of safeguarding and child protection. She is very clear about her roles and responsibilities to keep children safe.  Children enjoy a highly stimulating environment with fun play activities and

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This provision is outstanding

experiences, both indoors and outdoors. As a result, children are highly motivated and they explore the play environment with confidence.  Highly effective partnership working leads to excellent outcomes for children.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

To further improve the quality of the early years provision the provider should:

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

 provide even more opportunities for children to discover similarities and differences in relation to their lives and families.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed activities and interaction between the childminder and the children during play.  The inspector spoke with the childminder at appropriate times throughout the inspection.  The inspector viewed the areas of the premises used for childminding.  The inspector sampled a range of documentation including records relating to children, the systems used by the childminder to evaluate her provision and comments from parents.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The qualified childminder has an extremely strong commitment to providing high-quality provision and has very high expectations for children. She continually observes and assesses children's learning to plan enjoyable, challenging experiences that help all children make very good progress. The childminder constantly updates her knowledge and skills to help her improve her provision to benefit children. She meets with parents to discuss new practices to successfully involve them in supporting children at home. For example, she explained to parents the importance of using the correct pronunciation of words when talking with children. The childminder works exceptionally well with other early years settings to ensure continuity for children's care and learning. Safeguarding is effective. Children receive very good support to teach them how to keep safe and healthy.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder uses her excellent knowledge of how children learn to provide rich, varied and stimulating play experiences. Children engage in purposeful play that promotes their active learning extremely well. The childminder constantly models language to build on younger children's vocabularies and they babble in response. She skilfully questions older children as they use their imagination to make pretend meals, to help them develop their thinking skills. The childminder adapts the play activities exceptionally well to support children's learning further. For example, she asks children to count how many eggs they have and how many are left when one is taken away. She promotes children's understanding of numbers and teaches them to solve problems very successfully. Children enjoy looking at books with the childminder. She is very animated and captivates children's interests, and they eagerly turn the pages to see what is on the next page.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children benefit enormously from the welcoming and nurturing environment. They show high levels of confidence as they independently select their play activities from the broad range of toys and resources. Children demonstrate positive behaviour. The childminder teaches children to listen to each other and to respect the opinions of others, ensuring all children are valued. She does not always make full use of opportunities to promote discussions about children's families and home lives, to help them learn about differences and similarities. Children enjoy challenging physical play activities in the garden. They learn to take risks as they climb and balance on the play equipment, reassured that the childminder is close by. Children gain confidence in their abilities.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children's language and physical, personal, social and emotional development are extremely well supported. Children acquire excellent foundations for their future learning.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY369931 Local authority Poole Inspection number 827869 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Age range of children 0 - 8 Total number of places 5 Number of children on roll 7

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Name of provider

Date of previous inspection 6 October 2009

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in March 2008. She lives in Poole, Dorset. The childminder receives the nursery education funding for children ages three and four years old. The childminder holds an early years qualification at level 3.

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Telephone number

This inspection was carried out by Ofsted under sections 49 and 50 of the Childcare Act 2006 on the quality and standards of provision that is registered on the Early Years Register. The registered person must ensure that this provision complies with the statutory framework for children’s learning, development and care, known as the Early Years Foundation Stage.

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Telephone number

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Telephone number

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Telephone number

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