Childminder EY358781

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 12 May 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

 Children are highly animated and show exceptional levels of interest and engagement in the rich, vibrant and stimulating environment. This is superbly attuned to their individual needs, stage of learning and interests. Children readily explore and investigate a wealth of inspiring activities. This includes innovative and exciting resources made by the childminder.  The childminder has high aspirations for what children can achieve and recognises that their learning journey is unique to them. She undertakes meticulous individualised observation, assessment and planning, helping children to make outstanding progress.  The childminder's motivational approach ignites children's natural curiosity and inquisitiveness superbly. Her excellent questioning and engagement in children's play builds on their learning fantastically. The childminder is an excellent role model. This contributes significantly to children developing essential social skills in readiness for

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This provision is outstanding

moving on to nursery.  Children's safety and physical well-being is promoted to an extremely high standard. As part of this, their understanding of keeping themselves safe and healthy through practical first-hand experiences is fostered exceptionally well.  The childminder gains an excellent insight into children's uniqueness, family life and home routines to help them settle. Children have developed wonderfully positive relationships with the warm and loving childminder. This helps them to feel safe and secure and to develop exceptionally high levels of self-esteem and confidence.  The childminder has an outstanding commitment to self-reflection and seeking ways to continually improve, including her precise focus on her own professional development. This contributes significantly to the childminder's high-quality provision and her constant pursuit of excellence.

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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

 enhance the strategies for engaging parents in their children's learning to the highest level.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact this has on children's learning.  The inspector completed a joint observation with the childminder.  The inspector spoke to the childminder and children at appropriate times throughout the inspection.  The inspector looked at relevant documentation, such as the childminder's self- evaluation, children's records of learning, feedback from parents and evidence of the suitability of those living on the premises.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. There are meticulous risk assessments, and stringent safety practices are continually discussed with children. Excellent sources of information are used to help the childminder to keep up to date with changes, enhance resources and implement new initiatives. Parents receive exceptionally well targeted questionnaires. The childminder has a thorough knowledge of child protection issues. She is constantly adding to her comprehensive childminding information files which include a designated safeguarding file. The childminder precisely focuses on what will have the most significant impact when utilising funding, accessing training and identifying key areas for improvement. These include wonderful enhancements to her gardens, becoming accredited to deliver funded early education and gaining a level 3 qualification.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder keeps highly insightful records of learning and parents are continually informed about and involved in their children's learning. Consideration is now being given to optimising this to the highest level. Children are engrossed and the childminder enhances their enjoyment and thirst for learning skilfully. They develop superb imagination and early literacy skills as they play in excitingly equipped role play areas. The superior garden areas enable children to explore and investigate. Children delight in playing in the wooden activity tepee, creatively designed and made by the childminder. They also enjoy weighing and measuring intriguing natural objects using wooden home- made scales. Children observe windmills whizzing around and enthusiastically search for creatures in the miniature bug hotels. They carefully build towers with different sized numbered logs, made by the childminder following a visit to her local timber yard.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children's individual needs are assessed and met to a high standard through extremely close parent consultation. Children thrive on the childminder's positive interaction, enjoying regular cuddles. Their sense of belonging is fostered further as they place their own photograph on the Who's here today? house. The childminder uses lively and engaging dialogue and children delight in singing and playing African musical instruments. Children spontaneously reflect on and recall their learning as they observe displayed photographs. The childminder delights in children's achievements as they help to put on their own shoes. This helps to foster children's positive approach to learning new skills. Children learn about how fruit grows on trees and help to grow herbs and vegetables, enthusiastically putting on their gardening gloves to water these.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children flourish, make exceptionally good rates of progress and develop an outstanding understanding of how to be a successful learner from a young age. They display high levels of self-confidence and independence and are well behaved. They are developing early social skills and a great appreciation of diversity, for instance, through displayed images and resources that include genuine cultural artefacts. Children acquire key skills and an excellent foundation for moving on to nursery.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY358781 Local authority Bradford Inspection number 863570 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 2 - 8 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 3

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Telephone number

The childminder was registered in 2007 and lives in the Denholme area of Bradford. She operates all year round from 7am to 6pm, Monday to Friday, except for bank holidays and family holidays. The childminder holds an appropriate qualification at level 3. She provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.

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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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