Childminder 507571

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 23 March 2016 25 November 2009

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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 forges excellent relationships with parents and other professionals. They work together to promote children's learning, care and development exceptionally well.  The childminder makes outstanding use of her knowledge and skills, gained through training and in-depth research, to enhance her already excellent practice and further improve the outcomes for children.  The childminder constantly and effectively reviews her evaluation process. She seeks the views of both children and parents to drive improvements. This helps her to draw up an action plan to continuously provide extremely high quality outcomes for children.  Children are highly independent and initiate their own ideas to extend their learning. The childminder provides an extremely warm, safe and stimulating environment in which children have the confidence to play, explore and learn. All children make excellent and very rapid progress.

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This provision is outstanding

 The childminder has a highly effective monitoring process. She reviews the impact of changes on children's progress and targets very precisely any gaps in learning.  The childminder develops exceptionally warm and loving relationships with the children in her care. She gives them great encouragement to become independent, which helps them to gain excellent skills ready for school.

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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

 build further on children's already excellent understanding of how to keep themselves safe when using information technology and their understanding that there are risks when retrieving or viewing information.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed interactions between the childminder and the children.  The inspector conducted a joint observation with the childminder.  The inspector sampled documentation, including planning, children's development records, and policies and procedures.  The inspector took the written views of parents into account.  The childminder gave the inspector a tour of the premises.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The childminder is meticulous about keeping up to date with legislation and changing practice and sharing this with parents. This helps to keep them fully involved in the setting and their children's learning. The childminder greatly values children's views, which has a very positive impact on their learning and motivation. For example, children identified the need for a mini-allotment in the outdoor area. The childminder and children then purchased resources, such as seeds, spades and gloves. Safeguarding is effective. The childminder has an exemplary understanding of the signs that a child may be at risk of harm and is extremely confident about what to do if she has any concerns.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Children are inspired to learn. The childminder uses her excellent teaching abilities to identify the different ways that children learn and incorporates this into her planning. For example, she followed a child's interest and created a role play shoe shop. The childminder was then able to extend the child's learning by introducing measuring tools. The childminder uses daily routines effectively to extend children's learning. For example, after wiping their hands with flannels, she shows children how to fold the flannels into different shapes. The childminder uses interesting activities to encourage children's literacy skills. For example, they played a game where the childminder hid letters around the room and the children had to listen to the sound and find the corresponding letter. This innovative activity helps them learn to link letters and sounds in readiness for school.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The childminder is an excellent role model. Children's behaviour is exemplary; they confidently interact, take turns and share with others. They develop highly effective social skills, preparing them for the next stage of their learning and school. Children are very aware of their own safety. For example, before starting to dance, they clear the floor of toys, saying to the younger children, 'You might trip over and hurt yourself.' However, some older children could build even further on their existing understanding of how to keep themselves safe when using information technology.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

The childminder has an excellent range of resources and is able to engage children very successfully in their learning. For example, children sing rhyming songs and make up their own words as they develop literacy skills in preparation for school. Children spontaneously sing and dance and enjoy physical activity. For example, a group of children of all ages decided to do yoga. They followed the simple yoga moves from a book, imitating the positions. The childminder uses lots of praise to encourage and build children's confidence and self-esteem.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 507571 Local authority Surrey Inspection number 826183 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 12

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Name of provider

Date of previous inspection 25 November 2009

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 1985. She lives in Oxted, Surrey. She operates from Monday to Thursday from 7.30am to 6pm. She works with a co-childminder.

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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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