Childminder in Buckinghamshire

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 15 October 2015 2 March 2011

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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

 Children respond enthusiastically to the highly stimulating indoor and outdoor environments, and become deeply engaged in chosen activities.  The childminder plans practical and creative activities to promote children's all-round learning. She uses her excellent knowledge of the needs of every child to assist them in becoming confident learners. She equips them to make swift progress.  The childminder is extremely perceptive in knowing when to move learning on or to deepen it by consolidation.  The childminder strongly promotes communication and language skills, for example, by excellent use of conversation in every activity and varying her questions to ensure children's understanding.  She has high expectations, a nurturing manner and well-established routines to support children's excellent behaviour.  Children feel safe and secure.  The childminder provides an exceptionally well-targeted range of activities to develop

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This provision is outstanding

children's physical skills.  While children actively participate in indoor and outdoor activities, they learn with enjoyment about the world and how things work. They make clear links between their outdoor and indoor learning.  The childminder arranges frequent visits and outings to places of interest to provide an extensive range of experiences.  The childminder works highly effectively with parents and adults in other settings, to ensure that children are extremely well prepared for their next stage in learning and school.

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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

 pursue the goal set to increase opportunities for children to think critically and explore their own ideas further

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed activities in the childminder's home and outdoors, and the impact they had on children's development.  The inspector spoke with the childminder at appropriate times during the inspection.  The inspector carried out an observation with the childminder during the inspection.  The inspector took account of parents' views.  The inspector looked at children's records, planning procedures, tracking records, learning journals, policies, procedures and other relevant documentation.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The childminder provides an extensive range of activities indoors and outside to inspire children's learning. For example, in addition to building sandcastles or seeing castles in books, children visit a real castle to understand its size and purpose. The childminder constantly seeks to improve her practice. Currently, she is working on teaching children to ask their own questions so they develop enquiring minds. Parents fully appreciate her methods and practices. She shares with parents the progress their children make. Parents recognise her ability to cater for different needs. The childminder ensures that child protection and safeguarding procedures are followed closely to promote children's welfare and safety, and to protect them from any harm. Safeguarding is effective.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder excels in promoting communication and language development. She uses her teaching skills to enable children to be imaginative and articulate. For example, she models how to create a simple rhyme about herself and children challenge themselves to do the same. Children recognise their own and each other's written names on place mats. They learn songs, rhymes and jingles, and share books. They experience a broad range of physical activities to develop large-muscle control and precise handling towards developing writing skills. They explore materials first-hand. They mix water with mud in the 'mud kitchen' to change the consistency, crunch dry leaves in the forest and learn how leaves turn back into soil. At snack time they identify and count fruit, match numbers and begin to recognise fractions. The childminder pays close attention to each child's understanding and adjusts her teaching to precisely meet individual learning needs.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children are delighted to show photographs and videos of their outside activities on a tablet computer. They clearly enjoy what they do with the childminder and talk with animation about different places they have visited. They talk about who is in the pictures and their relationships with each other. The childminder encourages children to value one another and their behaviour is outstanding. Children learn how to dress appropriately as their outdoor adventures cover different activities in all seasons. The childminder has set up an exceptionally attractive 'mud kitchen' under a tree in the garden. Here, children take turns to share utensils and bake 'cakes'. While the cakes bake, they occupy themselves busily by choosing to 'paint' the branches of the tree with water, using skills learnt previously.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children's progress is impressive. They are confident, independent and motivated, and love the inspiring range of activities.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 107853 Local authority Buckinghamshire Inspection number 839506 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Age range of children 0 - 8 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 3

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Name of provider

Date of previous inspection 2 March 2011

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 1996 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. She cares for children from 7.45am to 6pm throughout the year. The childminder receives funding for the provision of free early education for children aged two, three and four years. She holds a relevant level 3 early years qualification.

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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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