Childminder EY472723

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 24 June 2016 Not applicable

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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 observes, assesses and checks children's progress precisely, and plans for their next steps in learning based on their individual interests and needs. Children are totally absorbed in their activities and spend long periods testing out their ideas. They make excellent progress in their learning and development.  The childminder uses ongoing professional development extremely well to make improvements to the children's learning opportunities. For example, following training, she introduced more interesting ways for all children, especially boys, to develop their hand muscles in readiness for their early writing.  Partnerships with parents are very strong. Parents contribute information regularly about their children's learning at home. The childminder uses this information to plan and agree next steps in learning with parents, and offers exciting ideas for them to continue encouraging their children's development at home.

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This provision is outstanding

 Children's behaviour is exemplary. The childminder is an excellent role model. She values and listens to children's ideas, and responds to their needs extremely well. Children learn to take care of others and include them in their play.  Children have many enjoyable activities to support their understanding of healthy eating. For example, at snack time they make healthy fruit faces, talk about pictures of foods that they stick on to their models, and learn about the benefits of vitamins on their hair and skin.

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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

 continue to enhance how children's views are considered when identifying even further areas for improvement.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the childminder interacting with the children, indoors and outdoors.  The inspector spoke to the childminder and children at appropriate times during the inspection.  The inspector sampled documentation, including children's learning records, mandatory training certificates and safeguarding information.  The inspector took account of the written views of parents.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder has a thorough knowledge of child protection issues and the procedures to follow in the event of concerns about a child. She attends a wealth of training and conducts her own research to keep updated with government legislation and to make ongoing improvements to her teaching practice. The childminder evaluates her provision effectively, and uses the views of parents in this process, to identify precise areas for improvement. For example, she has clear plans to enhance children's understanding of nature, growth and decay through the use of her newly acquired allotment. She is currently considering more ways to gain the children's views.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder plans exciting activities that children are keen to engage in and that meet their needs exceptionally well. For example, to support children's hand muscles in preparation for early writing, she made a washing line for them to sort and match socks to hang on it with pegs. She knows and uses children's interests extremely well to encourage them to reach their next steps in learning. She has developed children's love of cutting and sticking by making a craft 'tool box' for them to make their own resources to support their imaginative play. The childminder skilfully encourages children's communication and language. She takes every opportunity to talk to children, to question them and encourage their thinking, and for them to communicate their own ideas. When children joined materials together to make their models, she encouraged them to think of the different ways that they could stick them together, so they could find out which worked best. They

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

tested out various ways to apply the glue until they succeeded.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children form incredibly strong bonds with the childminder. They are highly independent, explore the activities and initiate their own play and learning, knowing she is close by for reassurance and help. For example, older children ask for help finding the end of the sticky tape, and younger children communicate their wish for a cuddle, which she responds to swiftly. Children are confident to express their own opinions, such as when they tell the childminder that they are not hungry for lunch yet. She values and respects their wishes, allowing them to continue with their activity until they want to eat.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are highly motivated and eager to learn. They concentrate well at activities, test out their ideas and are proud of their achievements. For example, older children tested whether the scales would fall over if they filled the tray up with too much rice. Younger children banged metal spoons together, fascinated by the 'tap tap' sounds they made. Children gain exceptional skills in readiness for their next stage in learning.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY472723 Local authority Hampshire Inspection number 961530 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 4 Number of children on roll 7

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2014. She lives in Basingstoke, Hampshire. She offers care from Monday to Friday, all year round, except for bank holidays and family holidays. She receives funding for the provision of free early education for children aged three and four years.

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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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