Childminder in Kingston upon Thames

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 20 April 2016 24 May 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 organises and manages her practice extremely well. She maintains an excellent, safe, highly stimulating environment for children. Children totally relax, actively engage in play and thoroughly enjoy themselves.  The childminder's teaching and care are outstanding. She astutely draws on her expertise as a teacher and keeps up to date through research and information sharing with other providers.  The childminder has extremely strong relationships with children. Children in her care display exceptional levels of personal, social and emotional development.  Children enjoy a very wide variety of outdoor learning experiences, which helps to promote their physical well-being very successfully.  The childminder has exceptional relationships with parents and others involved in children's care. Parents speak highly of the childminder's care and support for their children's development. She keeps them fully informed about the progress of their

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This provision is outstanding

children and provides excellent ideas to help parents support their children's learning at home.  The childminder has high aspirations for continual improvement and sets challenging targets to help maintain extremely high standards in the setting.

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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

 strengthen further the already high-quality teaching practices, to help continually improve on the excellent outcomes for children.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed areas of the home used for childminding.  The inspector observed interactions between the childminder and the children while they were playing.  The inspector sampled a range of documentation, including records relating to children, safeguarding procedures and feedback from parents.  The inspector talked with the childminder and the children.  The inspector sampled parents' letters to gain their views about the childminding provision.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Arrangements for safeguarding are effective. The childminder has an excellent understanding of how to protect children from harm and promote children's safety. She is vigilant in checking for possible hazards and minimises them very effectively. The childminder has high aspirations for continual improvement. For example, following training the childminder provides much more nutritious foods to promote children's awareness of healthy lifestyles even further. She also audited and developed her environment, including creating stimulating activities and resources to support younger children in her care. To enhance her excellent practice, the childminder is very keen to extend the programme for her own professional development.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder has an excellent understanding of how children learn. Her extremely close attention to monitoring and assessing children's learning helps her to plan effectively for their learning needs. Children make rapid progress in developing their skills. The childminder skilfully interacts with children, encouraging babies' responses, and she uses questions and explanations to build on children's expressive language and developing vocabulary. Children become fully engrossed in their play, for example, they discover which shape and size of object will fit onto the various pictures that the childminder fixes to the wall. Babies and children are captivated by the many enjoyable, exciting and challenging activities. For example, they are intrigued by interesting sea creatures and they show great delight as they explore the various habitats.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Babies and children flourish and are extremely settled and happy. They form close attachments with the kind, approachable childminder. She supports children to keep trying and persevere in challenging circumstances. She listens attentively to what children have to say, establishing extremely positive relationships and valuing the uniqueness of each child. The childminder enables children to learn exceptionally well about eating healthy meals and snacks. For example, they grow their own fruits and vegetables. Children also enjoy a very wide variety of outdoor learning experiences, which helps to promote their physical well-being very successfully.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are exceptionally confident and independent. They demonstrate a very strong motivation to learn. They continually engage in highly stimulating activities which help them to make excellent progress as they develop the skills they will need for the future. Children are quietly confident and have an excellent time playing and learning together. They are extremely kind to each other.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 138068 Local authority Kingston upon Thames Inspection number 825696 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 6 Number of children on roll 7

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 1993 and lives with her family in the London Borough of Kingston. The childminder provides care from Monday to Friday, throughout most of 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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