Childminder in Devon

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 11 May 2016 6 October 2010

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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

 All children make excellent progress relative to their starting points. The childminder's extremely good assessments ensure all children consistently exceed expectations in their learning.  Children are highly confident and their self-esteem is excellent. They have very strong relationships with the childminder, and show through their behaviour that they feel extremely emotionally secure.  The childminder has extremely good relationships with parents and carers. She very successfully involves them in identifying their children's starting points, and helping to plan for their ongoing development. The childminder regularly talks to parents and carers about how to extend and build on their children's learning at home.  The childminder provides excellent support to children who have special educational needs or disability. She develops very strong relationships with other professionals. Extremely effective inter-agency communication helps to ensure consistency in planning

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This provision is outstanding

for children's future progress.  The childminder constantly seeks to improve her knowledge and skills, and very effectively measures the efficiency of improvements by the impact they have on children's learning. She has undertaken training on children's communication to further refine how well she monitors their speech and language progress.

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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

 provide older children with more opportunities to learn about simple adding and subtracting.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the childminder and children engaged in learning activities.  The inspector spoke to children, parents and carers to gain their views.  The inspector talked to the childminder about her systems of monitoring children's progress in learning.  The inspector sampled documents and records, including procedures for safeguarding children.  The inspector reviewed the effectiveness of the childminder's self-evaluation and action plans for improvement.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The childminder is extremely committed to achieving and sustaining exceptionally high standards. She rigorously monitors all aspects of her practice and children's progress to ensure that outcomes for children are consistently excellent. Self-evaluation is extremely thorough. This results in precise action plans for further improvements that extend children's learning. For example, the childminder identifies that she sometimes misses opportunities to extend some aspects of older children's mathematical learning and is currently addressing this. Safeguarding is effective. The childminder's understanding of procedures to safeguard children is excellent and she implements these very well to help protect them from harm. She makes sure that childminding assistants also have a thorough understanding of her safeguarding procedures and what to do if they have child protection concerns.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder uses her excellent observations of children to plan highly stimulating and challenging activities that promote individual learning very well. For example, she encouraged children to recall favourite stories and songs, in addition to their real-life observations when on outings, and they worked together to create a unique model of their ideal imaginary garden. The childminder is very experienced in supporting children whose main communication is sign language. She routinely teaches this to all children, who show a very good understanding and use of signing to communicate with each other. This supports children's awareness of difference and diversity extremely effectively.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children's behaviour is extremely good. The childminder is an excellent role model. She uses clear and simple explanations so that children very securely understand what is expected, and how and why to adapt their behaviour. The childminder uses daily routines extremely effectively to develop children's understanding of health and safety. For example, children helped to prepare and cook food for lunch. They carefully chopped vegetables and talked with the childminder about different ways of cooking them, developing an excellent awareness of a healthy diet.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children receive very good support that prepares them exceptionally well for their next stage in learning, including going to school. Children are extremely enthusiastic learners who very confidently manage change well. They are highly independent, and their social skills are excellent. Children listen and pay attention exceptionally well, and confidently communicate their needs.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY302562 Local authority Devon Inspection number 827071 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 3 - 8 Total number of places 12 Number of children on roll 6

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Name of provider

Date of previous inspection 6 October 2010

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2005. She lives in Starcross, near Exeter in Devon. The childminder works Monday to Friday, all year round. She offers flexible hours to meet individual needs. The childminder provides funded early education for children aged two, three and four years. She occasionally works with an 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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