Childminder EY387489

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 7 March 2016 18 March 2010

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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 self-evaluation process is highly reflective and includes the views of parents and children. For example, the childminder meticulously evaluates her practice to identify her training needs and set improvement goals which will have the most impact on children's learning.  The childminder has very high expectations of children and an excellent knowledge of how they learn. Her meticulous planning, informed by sharply focused observations and assessments, helps her to engage children in stimulating and challenging experiences.  The childminder quickly identifies and tackles any potential gaps in children's learning. She implements highly successful strategies, which she shares with parents, to help children to make excellent progress in all areas of learning.  The childminder is nurturing and highly skilled in helping children to form secure emotional attachments to her. For example, she works extremely closely with parents to

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This provision is outstanding

tailor the settling-in process to precisely meet the needs of each child. Children feel at ease and play very happily in the childminder's care.  Very young children develop excellent creative skills. For example, they use their imaginations extremely well to pretend to cook on the hob and in the microwave, making appropriate noises to show their pretend food is delicious.

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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

 enhance younger children's enjoyment of stories even further.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed all areas in the house used by children.  The inspector spoke to children about their play.  The inspector observed the childminder and children playing together.  The inspector and childminder participated in a joint observation.  The inspector reviewed a sample of documentation.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The childminder uses highly successful strategies to build strong partnerships with parents to effectively support children's needs. For example, she updates them by text, shares her planning with them on a weekly basis and suggests innovative ideas for them to support their children's development at home. Safeguarding is effective. The childminder has an excellent and up-to-date understanding of how to identify and report potential concerns about a child. She has a fully embedded programme of professional development. She does extensive online research to provide the best possible learning experiences for children. For example, she has created a container full of everyday items which provides young children with unlimited opportunities to explore, discover and broaden their understanding of the world.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder uses every opportunity to extend children's current skills and cleverly guides their learning during activities. For example, for young children learning to walk, she uses their interests in clipping and unclipping their dolls into pushchairs to encourage them to push the dolls around the room and practise their walking. The childminder is exceptionally good at extending activities so that they cover a range of additional learning opportunities. For example, a messy play activity skilfully becomes a learning opportunity for extending toddlers' language, physical development, early mathematical skills and creative play. Children relish looking at familiar books and using story sacks. The childminder has identified ways to build on the already excellent opportunities to extend children's enjoyment of stories even further.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The childminder has very high expectations of children's behaviour and makes excellent use of opportunities, such as outings, to help them learn to be polite and share with their peers. Children have excellent opportunities to learn about the world around them as they visit a vast range of different places, including an aquarium, the zoo, a farm and Clapham Common. The childminder works very closely with parents to ensure children have a healthy diet, including organic meals. She uses imaginative ways to help young children learn about their personal self-care needs, pretending that a doll needs a nappy change. Children carefully wipe the doll's bottom and put a clean nappy on it.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children flourish with the childminder. They confidently lead their own play and eagerly engage with a wide variety of activities that interest and challenge them. Children make excellent progress from their starting points, reaching high levels of achievement. They are very well prepared for the next stage of their learning, including starting nursery.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY387489 Local authority Wandsworth Inspection number 822385 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 1 - 1 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 1

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Name of provider

Date of previous inspection 18 March 2010

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2009. She lives in the London Borough of Wandsworth. She works from Monday to Thursday, from 8am to 6pm, for 48 weeks a year.

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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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