Ismail, Katriona

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 22 March 2016 11 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's outstanding teaching skills help her to promote children's learning exceptionally well. For example, her enthusiastic and friendly interactions with children have an extremely positive effect on children's motivation and enjoyment for learning.  Assessments of individual children's progress are exceptionally precise and accurate. For example, the childminder develops highly detailed progress checks for children aged two years. She plans extremely efficiently for individual children's learning and they make rapid progress from their starting points.  The childminder works in excellent partnership with parents to settle children in when they start. For example, she visits the children in their homes and invites parents into her setting, which helps them to work extremely well together to help promote children's emotional well-being.  The childminder reflects on her practice highly effectively to strengthen further the

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This provision is outstanding

already exceptional standards in children's learning and care. She plans extremely well to drive improvement and raise the quality of the provision, with an exceptionally sharp focus on promoting children's achievements.  The childminder promotes a highly inclusive practice in which all children and their families feel very welcome.

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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 develop the highly effective monitoring system further, to assess and plan even more exciting activities for specific groups of children.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the children and their interactions with the childminder.  The inspector viewed a sample of documents, including children's learning records.  The inspector held discussions with the childminder.  The inspector took account of the views of parents and children.  The inspector assessed the childminder's self-evaluation procedures.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The childminder continually strives for excellence and uses her training knowledge and skills exceptionally well to improve outcomes for children even further. For example, she has further strengthened procedures for positive behaviour management, which helps children to thrive in confidence and self-esteem. She supervises her assistant effectively and ensures that he has had all the required training, such as paediatric first aid and safeguarding. Her excellent partnership with local schools helps her to ensure a smooth transfer for children who move to school. Safeguarding is effective. The childminder completes thorough risk assessments of her premises and outside areas, and she has an excellent understanding of child protection procedures.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder has high aims for children and effectively uses her comprehensive knowledge of child development to assess precisely and plan extremely efficiently for children's learning. She has not fully developed procedures to monitor specific groups of children to support their learning even further. Young children flourish in a rich language environment. The childminder consistently models language and extends their early communication skills exceptionally well. She provides challenging and exciting learning experiences for older children. For example, they were very excited as they had the responsibility of carefully handling and painting a real egg and completed the task without dropping it.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The childminder consistently promotes children's self-choice. For example, when children engage in a pretend phone call with her, she very skilfully makes use of the opportunity to find out what they would like to have for lunch. Children thoroughly enjoy an excellent range of activities outside, which consistently helps them to develop a healthy lifestyle. The childminder makes excellent use of regular opportunities to develop children's sense of responsibility and independence. For example, she involves children in setting up the table for lunch.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children develop their physical, communication and social skills extremely well, which helps them to develop strong foundations for future learning. They enjoy exciting opportunities to develop their thinking skills, for example, as they listen to music and guess the song that will follow. Children learn mathematical language, such as 'up' and 'down' and 'big' and 'small', which helps them to build on skills for the future. Children who need further support in their learning make rapid progress from their starting points and benefit from close partnerships between the childminder, parents and professionals.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 153278 Local authority Lewisham Inspection number 826005 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 9

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Name of provider

Date of previous inspection 11 November 2011

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2001. She lives in Catford, in the London Borough of Lewisham. She holds a level 3 qualification in childcare. She provides childcare all day on weekdays, for most of the year. The childminder occasionally works with an assistant.

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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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