Gibbens, Caroline

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 21 March 2016 14 November 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 is an outstanding teacher. She uses her experience and excellent knowledge of how children learn to help them develop through a range of high-quality and exceptionally well-planned play experiences.  The childminder continues to offer outstanding provision. She attends training that greatly enhances her knowledge and skills, and this builds on her already outstanding practice. She sets herself challenging goals and strives for continual improvements to raise the outcomes for children.  The childminder checks children's progress in great detail and extremely well. This helps them to make excellent progress in all areas of learning. She knows exactly where each child is in their development and plans exciting, and highly stimulating, activities and experiences to help them achieve what they need to learn next.  The childminder has excellent relationships with parents. She communicates with them

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This provision is outstanding

exceptionally well and they are extremely involved in their children's learning. Parents hold the childminder in very high regard.  The childminder has excellent relationships with children. The highly nurturing care children receive helps them settle quickly and they are exceptionally confident and happy in her care. Children are taught excellent social skills and this helps them build positive relationships with their friends and behave very well.

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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

 foster even more opportunities for children to learn and practise their skills using technology.

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Inspection activities

 Discussions took place with the childminder at appropriate times during the inspection.  The inspector observed activities and the childminder's interactions with children in the home and garden and on a walk.  The inspector looked at documentation, including a sample of children's records, planning and assessments, and checked the suitability of the childminder and other household members.  The inspector took account of the views of children, the childminder and parents through discussion and sampling documentation, and of the childminder's self- evaluation.  The inspector completed a joint observation with the childminder.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The childminder is highly driven and continually builds on her knowledge and wealth of experience to raise the outcomes for children. She has an excellent knowledge of child protection. Safeguarding is effective. The childminder teaches children how to stay safe, such as on walks to and from nursery and school, and through practising fire evacuation in innovative ways. The childminder has highly effective partnerships with local schools and early years settings that children attend. This is helping her to ensure the best possible outcomes for children and offers a great deal of continuity in learning and care. They share their detailed summaries of children's progress with one another. The childminder has a wide network of early years colleagues who she works very closely with, to develop her provision and maximise her professional development.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder is highly skilled in letting children lead their own learning. She interacts with them and extends their learning through introducing wider learning opportunities and activities linked to their interests. Children have opportunities to use a range of toys that help them learn to operate things and explore cause and effect. However, there are some missed opportunities for children to use a further range of technology to extend their learning even further. The childminder has very strong teaching skills and encourages children to use language at every opportunity. They speak exceptionally well. The childminder supports children to respect each other's differences and learn about the world around them exceptionally well. They learn about a range of people and ways of life through extremely well-planned activities and experiences in and out of the home.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children have daily opportunities to be physically active, including exciting opportunities to learn outdoors in the childminder's garden and a variety of natural environments in the local community. For example, they spend time on the childminder's allotment planting and growing vegetables, and exploring nature. The children's self-esteem is promoted very well by the childminder as she praises and encourages them regularly. Children are extremely well supported in being independent and demonstrate that they are willing to do things for themselves before asking for help.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are highly motivated learners and they explore the learning environments with enthusiasm. The extremely well-planned play areas, indoors and outdoors, engage the children fully and support their development exceptionally well. Children demonstrate very high levels of concentration, excellent listening skills and understanding. They have an exceptional range of skills to support high achievements in their future learning.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 132077 Local authority Kingston upon Thames Inspection number 825526 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 6 Number of children on roll 12

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Name of provider

Date of previous inspection 14 November 2011

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 1996. She lives in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey. She operates her service all year round, all day, from Monday to Friday, before and after school and in the school holidays. The childminder is in receipt of funding for the provision of free early years education for children aged three and four years. The childminder has a relevant childcare 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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