Childminder EY259981

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 8 March 2016 17 May 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 excellent working partnership with his wife, who is his co- childminder. He has a very good understanding of his role, and for the requirements to work with and support their assistant in her responsibilities to safeguard children.  The childminder promotes equality and diversity well. Children benefit from a broad range of resources and activities, and the home environment is welcoming and inclusive. Children respect one another, and their behaviour is exemplary at all times.  The childminder has an excellent understanding of the children attending his provision. His teaching practice is very good. He interacts with children purposefully to promote their wider learning. Children are making outstanding progress in their development in relation to their starting points.  Children are very emotionally secure in the childminder's care. They have extremely warm bonds with him. Children are highly motivated to join in and to learn.

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This provision is outstanding

 The childminder is very reflective of his practice. He is extremely keen to continue to improve the setting. These improvements have included, for example, a refurbishment of the garden to promote children's 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

 build on the ways children continue to learn mathematical language, to give them more opportunities to use and understand concepts relating to length, time and distance, for example.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed children in their play, indoors and outdoors, and during their interactions with the childminder and his co-childminder.  The inspector sampled the childminder's documentation and children's records.  The inspector spoke with the childminder about how he reflects on his practice and how he plans for future improvement. They discussed how the childminder builds on his skills and knowledge through further training.  The inspector discussed how the childminder and his co-childminder plan for children's learning and how they review children's progress.  The inspector spoke with the childminder about how he works in partnership with parents and other professionals.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder demonstrates a very secure understanding of child protection procedures and is extremely aware of the importance of updating this knowledge regularly to ensure he is up to date with best practice. The childminder attends purposeful training and works extremely well with his co-childminder. He reflects on the ways to improve the outcomes for children, and implements new legislation very effectively. Together with his co-childminder, he maintains highly supportive partnerships with parents and others who share the care of the children. His highly effective practice includes regular meetings with parents to discuss the excellent progress of their children, encouraging parents to extend children's learning at home. Workshops to support parents in helping their children move on to school, or for their understanding of promoting mark making, have proved highly effective in helping their children to succeed.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder is highly confident in promoting children's learning through his excellent teaching skills. His extremely calm approach leads to children building warm relationships with him. He uses focused observations to plan for children's next steps, and to review and reflect on the progress children make. The childminder is very confident in extending children's engagement in activities. He is incredibly patient in showing, demonstrating and explaining skills to the children, for example, helping them use scissors correctly during craft activities, so they are highly confident in their abilities.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The childminder promotes children's confidence and independence extremely well, for example, inviting children to help him give out drinks at lunchtime and helping them to put on their own fluorescent tabards for the school walk. He encourages children to make decisions and to talk about what they do, for example, they are articulate in describing their badge creations after their art activity. Children benefit from regular outdoor learning, including nature walks and highly purposeful play in the childminder's garden.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children have high levels of fun in the childminder's care. Children are highly motivated to learn, and they make exceptional progress, talking enthusiastically about their topics. For example, they are eager to learn about the role of the police when discussing their topic about 'those who help us'. They excitedly join in conversations about the police motorbike or the police officer's horse standing outside Buckingham Palace. Children confidently seek the childminder's attention, for example, when making paper aeroplanes outdoors. Some opportunities are missed to further develop the children's language skills by engaging them in thinking mathematically when carrying out other activities.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY259981 Local authority Hampshire Inspection number 826584 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 1 - 8 Total number of places 12 Number of children on roll 10

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2005. He lives in Church Crookham, Fleet, in Hampshire. The childminder works with his wife, who is also a registered childminder, and occasionally with an assistant. The childminder holds a professional childcare qualification at level 3. The childminder works weekdays, for most weeks of the year. He can offer funded places 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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