Childminder EY405848

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 5 April 2016 17 December 2010

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This inspection: Good 2

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Good 2

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This inspection: Good 2

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 2

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This inspection: Good 2

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1

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This provision is good

 Children make excellent progress in their physical, and personal, social and emotional development. They have a superb understanding of how to keep themselves healthy and safe. Children engage in exhilarating physical activities, such as riding bikes down hills and tree climbing in the garden.  The environment is welcoming and well equipped with play and learning resources.  The childminder uses well-established and effective processes to assess, track and plan for children's progress. She provides interesting and fun activities that interest and challenge children. They make good progress overall.  The childminder forms strong partnerships with parents. She keeps them very well informed about children's learning and development, and involves them fully in reviewing and planning for children's progress.  The childminder is professional and has a strong commitment towards ongoing improvement. She knows her strengths well and, overall, makes good use of self-

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This provision is good

evaluation to identify and target priorities for improvement.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 The childminder's planning for children's understanding of shape is not as well developed as that for other areas of mathematics.  The childminder does not fully extend children's knowledge and understanding of why things happen and how things work.

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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

 develop further opportunities for children to learn about shape  extend the range of activities to support children's understanding of how and why things work.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed children engaged in activities and the childminder's interactions with them indoors and in the garden.  The inspector discussed the childminder's practice with her, including the impact of her teaching methods, and use of observation and assessment to support children's progress.  The inspector took account of the views of parents as detailed in children's progress records.  The inspector sampled a range of documentation relating to safeguarding, children's progress and well-being, and the childminder's suitability and self-evaluation process.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder completes thorough and effective risk assessments on her home and for outings. She keeps herself fully up to date about child protection matters and has clear procedures in place for acting on concerns about a child's welfare. Since the last inspection, the childminder has achieved a childcare qualification at level 3 and has attended a wide range of training days. The childminder makes good use of what she learns from these opportunities to improve her practice. For example, she places more attention on teaching children about diverse cultures and faiths. The childminder reflects on her practice and children's progress well overall. For example, she has identified, and is currently targeting, the need to establish a stronger partnership with the pre-schools that children attend.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

The childminder uses a range of effective strategies to help children develop good communication and language skills. She introduces children to the themes of activities and explains facts really well, such as that 'minibeasts are the smallest, and dinosaurs are the oldest, creatures on the planet'. Children listen attentively and with interest to what the childminder has to say. She provides lots of different opportunities to encourage pre- school age children to link letters to sounds and to develop their early writing skills. In most respects, the childminder has high expectations of what children can achieve. For example, she challenges them to match the first and second objects they find to numerals one and two. When children's interests suddenly change, for example, from bug hunting to watering flowers, she follows their lead and extends their learning.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children are extremely confident. One of the childminder's phrases is 'my home is your home', and children's strong sense of belonging shows that they know this. Children very competently manage their own personal care, such as washing hands and putting on coats and shoes. The childminder teaches children important safety rules, such as wearing helmets when using scooters and not undressing themselves in public places. The childminder teaches children to be kind and to respect each other. They say that 'sharing is caring'. The childminder provides children with a wide range of healthy snacks and meals. Children's knowledge of what foods are good for them and why is excellent.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children gain important skills in readiness for starting school. For example, they recognise, and are beginning to write, their names. Children are also starting to work out simple words, such as 'cat', by sounding out and blending together letter sounds. Children are confident and articulate communicators. They are independent and sociable with others.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY405848 Local authority Surrey Inspection number 831425 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 1 - 3 Total number of places 4 Number of children on roll 2

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Name of provider

Date of previous inspection 17 December 2010

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2010. She lives in Addlestone, Surrey. The childminder has a childcare qualification at level 3. She works full time throughout the year.

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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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