Childminder EY423098

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 18 March 2016 18 July 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

 Children benefit from inspirational teaching. The childminder has an excellent understanding of how children learn and develop indoors and outdoors. Children thoroughly enjoy exploring and making choices and decisions about their play. They are extremely independent and confident, and they develop an excellent range of skills for their future learning.  The childminder assesses children's progress accurately. She monitors their achievements precisely to identify and close any gaps in their learning and development swiftly. She quickly puts support in place to help children catch up, so they all make excellent progress from their starting points.  Settling-in procedures are highly effective. Children have extremely close bonds with the childminder. These warm and very positive relationships clearly help children to feel very safe and secure, and contribute highly to their well-being.  The childminder has developed highly effective partnerships with parents and keeps

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This provision is outstanding

them fully informed about their children's progress. Parents actively contribute to the childminder's extremely accurate assessments of their children's development.  The childminder monitors and evaluates all aspects of her practice rigorously in order to continually improve. She very successfully involves parents and children in helping to identify areas for improvement.

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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

 share newly acquired skills with parents to enable them to more effectively promote children's secure and developing speech and language development at home.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the childminder playing and interacting with the children.  The inspector spoke to the childminder and children at appropriate times throughout the inspection.  The inspector discussed self-evaluation and the impact of training on children's learning with the childminder.  The inspector looked at policies and procedures, children's progress records and the childminder's training records.  The inspector took into account the written views of parents.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder has an excellent understanding of how to keep children safe and is extremely vigilant in her care. The childminder is inspirational. She is dedicated to providing an exceptionally high quality service to strengthen and improve outcomes for children. The childminder is committed to her professional development and constantly seeks to improve her already outstanding practice. For example, following training on supporting children with their communication development, she has provided more activities that strengthen children's developing language skills. This has enabled the youngest children to communicate their needs even more successfully. The childminder works extremely well with parents but has yet to share these new skills more fully to enable them to develop the same communication strategies at home.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder respects children's individuality and provides excellent and innovative opportunities and experiences to help them learn and progress at their own pace. She is skilful at helping children to be part of planning their own learning, keeping them motivated and inspired. For example, the childminder noticed that children were particularly interested in creative play. She encouraged them to be instrumental in developing their own 'Creation Station', where they could choose a broader range of creative resources more easily and use their imaginations to the full.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Innovative settling-in routines help children to develop a very strong sense of belonging and to flourish in the childminder's care. For example, the childminder creates a 'Welcome Box' for each child, which includes their favourite toys, pictures of their family and comforters from home. The childminder also includes items that she knows the child likes, to help them feel special and highly valued. The childminder promotes children's physical development highly effectively, using a range of planned and spontaneous activities. For example, children enjoy growing and harvesting their own fruits and vegetables. The childminder encourages children to be confident for their move to school, such as practising the route to school and using photographs to help them become familiar with their new environment.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children make excellent progress in readiness for school. They enjoy a broad range of exploratory play, indoors and outdoors, that enables them to develop secure skills in early writing and mathematics. Children's communication and language are excellent. Children are independent and highly confident. Their behaviour is exemplary and children show great respect for others.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY423098 Local authority Reading Inspection number 822720 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 1 - 6 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 6

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Name of provider

Date of previous inspection 18 July 2011

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2011. She lives in Reading, Berkshire. The childminder operates her service from Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm, all year round. She holds an appropriate qualification at level 3.

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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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