Childminder EY246170

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's highly effective partnerships with parents and other professionals help to provide excellent consistency in children's care, learning and development.  The childminder is acutely aware of the importance of continual professional development. She frequently attends training and extends her knowledge in a variety of other ways. She reflects on the positive impact this has on her teaching and the setting. Children make excellent progress in all areas.  The childminder constantly and effectively reviews her evaluation process. She frequently seeks the views of both children and parents to drive improvements. This helps her to continuously provide extremely high-quality outcomes for children.  Children are highly motivated to learn. The childminder is very successful in supporting their emotional development. They develop great independence and confidence. The childminder prepares children extremely well for their move to school.

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This provision is outstanding

 The childminder has an excellent understanding of the developmental needs of all children, including those with special educational needs and those learning English as an additional language. She is skilled at giving simple explanations about differences to children and encouraging them to respect and value one another.  The childminder has exceptionally warm and secure attachments to the children. She provides great encouragement for them to become highly motivated learners.

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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

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder has an excellent understanding of her role and responsibilities in keeping children safe. She has a very effective system to keep her up to date with changing legislation. She keeps a log of all courses, training and research, and evaluates the impact this has on her practice. For example, after reading about Forest Schools she designed laminated sheets with pictures of mini beasts to encourage children to explore outdoors. The childminder has an excellent evaluation process. She meticulously evaluates her practice to identify strengths or areas for development, and develops a sharply focused action plan to help her improve.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder has extensive experience and superb skills in working with children, including those with special educational needs, to enable them to make the best progress possible. She uses innovative methods to help children learn. For example, she explains what diabetes is using different-coloured beanbags to represent sugar and insulin. She describes how the insulin has to catch the sugar to keep children well. The childminder uses her in-depth knowledge of each child to plan exciting activities that help them make excellent progress. For example, children are very interested in bird watching. They are able to locate specific birds in a book, read out their names and identify them in the garden. The childminder is skilled at extending children's language. For example, children discussed 'camouflage' after a mini-beast hunt.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The childminder provides a warm and nurturing environment and has extremely high expectations for the children in her care. She knows each child very well. She is able to promptly identify how they are feeling which helps her meet their personal development and physical needs very well. Children have an excellent understanding of how to stay safe, although some older children could build even further on their existing knowledge of e-safety. Older children sensitively take account of the needs of others. For example, after finding a stag beetle, they put the younger, shorter children at the front so everyone could see.

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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 make up rhyming songs which help them develop excellent literacy skills ready for school. Children are exceptionally creative. After reading a book about stick men, children reproduced this on a large scale, using a variety of resources to recreate the story, designing a bridge, making large stick-men out of brown paper and using packing material to make snow.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY246170 Local authority Surrey Inspection number 826498 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 2002. She lives in Oxted, Surrey. She operates her service from Monday to Friday, from 7.30am to 6pm. She has a recognised qualification at level 3. 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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