Childminder in Isle of Wight

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 12 April 2016 15 October 2009

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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

 The well-qualified childminder uses her wealth of childcare experience to promote children's personal development, behaviour and welfare to the highest level. Children are very happy, show extremely high levels of confidence and enjoy excellent relationships with one another and the childminder.  The childminder places a strong emphasis on children developing good communication skills. During purposeful play, the childminder's interaction challenges children and enables them to make good progress.  The childminder forges good partnerships with parents. For example, they regularly exchange information about children's care and development, and work together as the children's first early years educators.  Children are taught about healthy lifestyles well. For example, they play regularly in the garden to exercise and relish the home-made hot meals.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 The childminder does not fully consider how resources are organised to enable children to continually explore their own ideas.  The childminder does not make the best use of opportunities for children to develop mathematical skills, such as counting, number recognition and problem solving.

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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

 evaluate and develop the organisation of resources to enable children to explore their own play and learning ideas more freely  strengthen opportunities to extend children's early mathematical skills.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching and the support for children's learning.  The inspector talked to the childminder about her understanding of safeguarding procedures and how to keep children safe. She sampled a range of written documentation.  The inspector carried out a joint observation with the childminder.  The inspector talked to the children and evaluated their views.  The inspector interviewed parents and carers as they collected their children and read feedback letters from other parents.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

The childminder, who has recently moved to new premises, reflects on her practice and is keen to develop new ideas. For example, after attending training on best practice for under-threes, she now has closer links with the health visitor to share and discuss children's developmental assessments. The childminder monitors her assistant to ensure he is aware of his role and responsibility. Safeguarding is effective. The childminder knows what action she must take if she is worried about a child's welfare. The premises are safe and she supervises children well. The childminder maintains good partnerships with children's pre-schools, enabling them to work successfully together to promote children's learning and well-being.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

The childminder has good teaching skills and a secure knowledge of each child's interests and how they prefer to learn. She observes children's learning closely, tracks progress and uses this information well to plan activities which fully engage them. For example, she puts shapes in the sand for them to find and name. The childminder helps families of children who are below typical levels of speech development to seek specialised help and then delivers targeted support. The childminder knows when to ask questions to extend children's thinking skills and when to give them time to talk. For example, she promotes conversations during lunchtime to discuss the morning's activities.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children's well-being is completely supported. They benefit greatly from the highly attentive and extremely dedicated childminder. She juggles the needs of a large group of young children expertly, following their home routines closely. For example, children swiftly go off to sleep on mattresses with their comforters and friends close by, which effectively promotes physical growth and development. The childminder capably extends children's respect for their own space and others, dealing with children's typical behaviours with ease and high skill. Children have enjoyable community learning experiences, such as travelling on a bus each week to toddler group. They learn the rules of how to keep safe near busy roads, with the childminder's close support and expert guidance.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children show enthusiasm for learning and communicate well. They develop a good range of skills which help them prepare for school. For example, they eagerly participate in the well-planned song time, listening well and joining in with the words of the songs. They show a keen interest in books. Some children aged two years are beginning to become very familiar with their favourite stories and they recite the title excitedly to the visitor. Children show off their paintings on display and talk about a famous painter, which inspired the childminder's planning of the activity.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY390104 Local authority Isle of Wight Inspection number 822412 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 0 - 8 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 8

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Name of provider

Date of previous inspection 15 October 2009

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2009. She lives in the village of Brading on the Isle of Wight. The childminder's operational hours are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday all day, all year round. She is qualified to level 3 in early years. The childminder sometimes works with her husband who is her 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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Telephone number

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