Childminder EY412701

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 14 March 2016 18 January 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

 Partnerships with parents and other professionals are outstanding. Communication sharing is highly effective, and the childminder encourages their excellent ongoing involvement and input to promote continuity in children's learning and development.  Children's care needs are extremely well supported by the childminder. She has exceptionally strong and secure relationships with all children and this helps to build on their emotional well-being even further.  The childminder has an extensive awareness of safeguarding and child protection procedures. She is proactive in keeping her knowledge up to date and uses this to continually support the safety and well-being of children in her care.  The childminder's assessments of children's learning are sharply focused and precise. She uses these to help plan activities that directly link to children's identified next steps in development. Children make outstanding progress in their learning from when they

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This provision is outstanding

start.  The childminder evaluates her practice rigorously. Her self-evaluation is detailed and precise. She uses her evaluations extremely well to help her to take targeted actions to continually improve her provision, and to meet children's care and learning needs to a consistently high standard.

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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 opportunities to develop children's understanding of early addition and subtraction to build on their already very good mathematical skills.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector looked at documentation, including a selection of policies and procedures, and children's records.  The inspector held discussions with the childminder and engaged with children at appropriate times during the inspection.  The inspector observed the childminder engaging with children in a range of activities.  The inspector observed the children playing independently.  The inspector checked safeguarding information and saw the areas of the premises children used.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder uses her precisely detailed observations and assessments to plan activities and monitor progress. This helps her to enable children to make rapid and sustained progress in their learning. The childminder prioritises her ongoing professional development. For example, she makes excellent use of training and support networks to keep her up to date with current best practice. The childminder has excellent knowledge of her responsibilities, and parents speak extremely highly of her and the progress that their children make.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder plans relevant and meaningful activities that are highly effective in meeting children's needs. For example, she extends children's individual interests, such as the solar system, and incorporates research visits to the library and exploration of the topic together safely on the internet to build on these further. The childminder makes excellent use of her home and the outside environment. For example, she belongs to a childminding group that uses the natural environment to actively extend children's learning and their experiences of the world around them.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The childminder expertly teaches the children about the importance of sharing, taking turns, respecting each other and the beliefs and cultures of others. She provides a wide variety of learning opportunities and helps children learn to be proud of their own culture while also celebrating the diversity of the wider community. Children behave extremely well. The childminder ensures that children fully understand the daily routines and organises resources so they can easily make their own choices about their play. She provides excellent opportunities for children to be physically active and learn about healthy lifestyles. For example, the childminder uses the natural environment and living things to extend children's learning, such as when they look for minibeasts, explore using mud and paddle through shallow streams. The childminder uses these activities to expertly extend children's language and mathematical skills, although, at times, she does not build on this

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

further, such as through the use of early addition and subtraction.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children benefit from an excellent balance of child-initiated and adult-led activities. They have high self-esteem, are confident, and are motivated learners who freely express their thoughts and opinions. For example, they confidently explain which plants they like in the garden and what they grow at an allotment. Children focus during their play exceptionally well. They develop excellent early reading and early writing skills and are making excellent progress in preparation for their future learning and their move on to school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY412701 Local authority Greenwich Inspection number 832026 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 3 - 6 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 3

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Name of provider

Date of previous inspection 18 January 2011

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2010. She lives in Charlton, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. She works from Monday to Wednesday, 8am to 6pm, for most of the 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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Telephone number

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