Childminder 111642

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 23 February 2016 17 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

 The childminder has an extremely secure understanding of safeguarding procedures. Robust checks of her home and garden help her to identify and address any potential hazards, so children can explore and play safely and securely.  The childminder is meticulous in overseeing her effectiveness. She very carefully monitors the quality of her provision, seeking the views of parents and children. She accurately assesses her strengths, weaknesses and impact to drive consistent improvements. Regular and targeted training helps the childminder to use excellent teaching skills to ensure children make very strong progress.  The childminder has extremely high expectations of the children. She has a remarkable understanding of how children learn and how best to support their needs. Monitoring of children's progress is a high priority and is rigorous. This results in children who are very securely ready to start school and extremely confident to attend other settings.

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This provision is outstanding

 Children are extremely independent and develop genuine, warm and close relationships in a highly nurturing environment. The childminder is an excellent role model and very successfully builds children's emotional security, ensuring they thrive under her expert guidance.  Extremely effective partnerships with parents and other settings that children attend help to promote a very strong and shared approach to children's care and learning.

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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

 gather detailed information from parents more regularly about what children learn at home to better inform the planning process.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the children during activities inside and outside.  The inspector carried out a joint observation with the childminder.  The inspector sampled a range of paperwork including the self-evaluation document, risk assessments, policies and procedures and children's learning files.  The inspector discussed the provision with the children and the childminder at appropriate times during the inspection.  The inspector gathered the views of parents from the childminder's letters of referral and questionnaire evidence.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder has an excellent understanding of her role and responsibility to ensure children are safe and protected from harm. She accesses a broad range of training courses and regularly meets with other professionals to share her high- quality practice. Training has very successfully led her to adapt her environment and planning to better support children's communication and language skills. The childminder superbly adapts activities to make sure all children access excellent learning opportunities at all times. There are very close and meaningful partnerships with parents to promote children's learning and development. The childminder keeps parents up to date about how the range of activities that she provides supports children's next steps. Although the childminder seeks information from parents about what their children do at home, this is not always frequent or thorough enough to influence her planning more regularly.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder observes children closely and uses her observations extremely well to plan for the next steps in their learning. She specifically sets up learning experiences based on children's individual learning needs. This helps children of different ages and abilities to engage in activities for significant periods. The childminder is highly enthusiastic and responsive to children's ideas. Her interaction and excellent range of activities challenge and motivate children extremely well. For example, as children used scented and different coloured playdough to cut out letters and numbers, she very skilfully talked to them about their experience, encouraging them to explore and experiment in more depth; helping them learn letter and number sounds and names.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The childminder promotes children's health and understanding of healthy lifestyles very well, so they understand healthy routines, enjoy plenty of physical activity and eat well. The childminder makes her expectations of children's behaviour clear, helping them to manage their emotions and feelings very successfully. Older children are very considerate of the younger ones while they play. Children develop excellent social skills. They learn to negotiate, share and take turns extremely well. The childminder has a significantly positive impact on children's emotional and physical well-being.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children focus and concentrate in play exceptionally well and are highly motivated to learn. They have an excellent understanding and awareness of their own and others' needs, and learn about their similarities and differences. Children display excellent manners and are very thoughtful towards others. Children develop excellent early reading and writing skills, and show great curiosity and enthusiasm in their learning.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 111642 Local authority Hampshire Inspection number 824974 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 0 - 5 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 5

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Name of provider

Date of previous inspection 17 March 2011

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 1990 and lives in Andover, Hampshire. She has a level 3 childcare qualification and cares for children all year round. The childminder receives funding to provide free early years education for children aged two, three and four years.

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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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