Childminder in Bexley

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 10 March 2016 18 April 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 a highly successful drive to improve and keep her knowledge up to date. For example, she undertakes extremely effective self-evaluation, informed by parent questionnaires, daily practice reviews and regular training.  Highly effective monitoring helps the childminder to identify children's individual needs and she implements specific programmes of support to close any gaps in learning swiftly.  The childminder maintains highly effective partnerships with parents to help provide the best possible care for the children.  Very carefully planned strategies help to enable all children to be fully included and enable them to explore people, families and communities beyond their own.  Teaching is consistently of very high quality, inspirational and highly responsive to the children's needs. The childminder provides an exceptional range of resources and provides activities that value the diversity of children's experiences.

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This provision is outstanding

 Children show high levels of confidence in social situations. The childminder maintains genuinely caring relationships with all of the children, helping them to feel secure.  Children are very well prepared for the next stages in their development, and the childminder skilfully supports children when they move to school.  Children benefit from an excellent range of exciting indoor and outdoor activities.

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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

 continue to extend the excellent range of opportunities for children to develop their creativity even further.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed children at play within the childminder's home.  The inspector discussed with the childminder how she meets the requirements.  The inspector examined a sample of relevant documentation and children's records.  The inspector undertook observations on the childminder's teaching and jointly reviewed these with the childminder.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The childminder is highly organised and dedicated to providing the highest level of care and learning for every child. She has an outstanding knowledge of how young children learn and how to promote their development. Safeguarding is effective. The childminder has an excellent knowledge of how to protect children and follows her detailed safeguarding policies and procedures. The childminder maintains extremely effective partnerships with parents and outside agencies to help her meet the needs of children. For example, she works very closely with them to devise activities to effectively target plans so that children make the best possible progress.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder makes accurate assessments of children's skills. For example, she makes careful observations of children while they learn and play. She uses her assessments extremely well to plan challenging activities that are well suited to children's needs. The childminder seizes every opportunity to develop children's skills. For example, children are eager to learn more about planting and growing, following the opportunities they had to plant and nurture flowers for Mother's Day. The childminder introduces new words such as 'wilted' and 'roots'. She encourages the children to count the seeds into the ground and recognise how deep the hole is by measuring the depth. The childminder provides children with excellent opportunities to be imaginative. However, there are slightly fewer creative materials freely available to the children to follow their interests.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children thoroughly enjoy their time with the childminder. She is highly successful in promoting children's personal development and well-being. Children become increasingly independent. For example, children enjoy preparing their own lunch, enabling them to assess risks and build upon their growing understanding of how to keep safe and healthy. The childminder manages children's behaviour exceptionally well. For example, she uses a very respectful communication system when the children want to talk to someone who is busy; they simply put a hand on the person's forearm. This shows excellent levels of self- control, particularly based on the age of the children.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are highly confident, independent and eager to learn. They make outstanding progress from their starting points. Children have very good communication, literacy and mathematics skills. Children show great consideration for others, share equipment and toys, and behave exceptionally well, always using their manners well without being prompted. For example, older children very kindly help the younger ones to find their coats and shoes when preparing for outdoor play.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY418027 Local authority Bexley Inspection number 822656 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 1 - 4 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 4

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Name of provider

Date of previous inspection 18 April 2011

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2010. She lives in Erith, in the London Borough of Bexley. She provides care Monday to Friday, all 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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