Childminder in Surrey

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 8 June 2016 5 November 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

 Children benefit from exceptional interactions with the childminder. Children are excited and highly engaged as they play.  The childminder uses assessment in an excellent way to plan for children's learning. She uses tracking to expertly identify any gaps in children's development and quickly helps them to make consistently excellent progress from their starting points. This is particularly effective for those children who have special educational needs or disability.  The childminder has built highly effective relationships with parents. Children benefit from a very consistent, joined-up and in-depth understanding of their needs and interests.  The childminder has a highly positive impact on children's experiences. For example, she develops her knowledge and skills extremely well, to improve her teaching abilities. She uses what she knows to constantly build on children's learning.  The childminder supports children's understanding of the emotional needs of others

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This provision is outstanding

exceptionally well. Even the youngest children learn to respect and consider others.

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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 further the already excellent outdoor provision for those children who prefer to learn outside, to help them make even more progress in their learning.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector and the childminder jointly evaluated the effectiveness of an activity together.  The inspector conducted a meeting with the childminder to discuss the quality of her provision.  The childminder sampled a range of documents, including children's learning journals.  The inspector observed the childminder's interactions with children throughout the inspection.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder has a highly effective and excellent understanding of safeguarding procedures and child protection issues. She reflects expertly on her practice, to bring about changes that have a significantly positive effect on children's play and learning. For example, she has greatly improved opportunities for children to select materials and tools, and to work on their own creative projects. The childminder works really well with other settings to make sure that children experience continuity and are very well prepared for school. The childminder works in an exceptionally focused and targeted way to continually bring about improvement.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder ensures that children are challenged and excited in their learning. Children enjoy having running races and the childminder introduces stop watches and a finishing line to extend their learning further. Children often follow their own ideas and solve problems. For example, they engage in an elaborate game by building a bus stop and practise their literacy skills extremely well as they make tickets. Children work really well together and stay interested for long periods. They enjoy taking the outdoor temperature each day and also bring back information about the weather from their holidays to make a detailed chart. They develop an excellent understanding of the world around them.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children play extremely well together and their behaviour is impressive. For example, they work very hard together to transport and count wooden bricks as they build a very complicated road. They independently line cars up on the structure and use sticky labels to number each one. Children enjoy constant access to the garden and lots of exercise. Together, they learn how to record the time it takes to sprint from one end of the garden to the other. The childminder plans to continue to develop the already excellent outdoor area to enhance children's experiences further. The childminder has built extremely positive relationships with children that provide them with a firm emotional start from which they make excellent progress.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children develop high levels of independence and confidence ready for their eventual move to school. They access the things that they need and make lots of choices about where they would like to play and what they would like to do. They show maturity in their learning; for example as they hold books correctly, carefully turn the pages and retell stories. Children learn to share, respect each other's wishes and consider the feelings of others.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY398729 Local authority Surrey Inspection number 830915 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register Age range of children 2 - 8 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 4

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 5 November 2010

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2009 and lives in Epsom, Surrey. The childminder works with her mother, who is also a childminder. The childminder operates on weekdays from 8am to 6pm, all year round, except for bank holidays.

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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

procedures set out in the guidance ‘Complaints procedure: raising concerns and making complaints about Ofsted’, which is available from Ofsted’s website: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ofsted. If you would like Ofsted to send you a copy of the guidance, please telephone 0300 123 4234, or email enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk. achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. It regulates and inspects childcare and children's social care, and inspects the Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service (Cafcass), schools, colleges, initial teacher training, work-based learning and skills training, adult and community learning, and education and training in prisons and other secure establishments. It assesses council children’s services, and inspects services for looked after children, safeguarding and child protection.

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Telephone number

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Telephone number

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Telephone number

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