Childminder 220429

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 6 July 2016 22 July 2013

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This inspection: Good 2

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Good 2

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This inspection: Good 2

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 2

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This inspection: Good 2

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 2

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This provision is good

 The childminder has taken steps to improve her provision since the last inspection. She has fully addressed a potential risk to children's safety in the garden. The childminder reviews her provision, in order to improve. Early years information is shared between herself and other childminders.  The childminder uses her observations and assessment of children's learning to plan activities that challenge them successfully. She promotes individual children's learning effectively while she supports their play.  Children are happy and settled in the childminder's care. Relationships are very good.  Children make good progress in their communication and language development. The childminder provides good support as children express their views and begin to use more complex sentences.  The childminder provides a wide variety of activities for children to practise their good manipulative skills.  Children gain a strong understanding of how healthy food contributes to their good

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This provision is good

health.  Children engage in imaginative role-play. While playing with a toy farm, they pretend that the animals communicate with each other, using the sounds that different animals make.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 The childminder misses some chances to extend children's mathematical knowledge with regard to size, weight and comparison of quantities.  Children are not fully supported in making spontaneous and independent decisions about their play.

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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 children's mathematical knowledge with regard to size, weight and comparing different quantities  extend opportunities for children to be more independent and spontaneous in their choice of activities and resources.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed activities as children played in the indoor and outdoor play areas.  The inspector observed activities and discussed teaching methods with the childminder.  The inspector looked at evidence of the childminder's training and checked evidence of the suitability of adults.  The inspector looked at a selection of children's assessment records and planning, policies and procedures and a range of other documentation.  The inspector spoke with the childminder and children at appropriate times throughout the inspection.  The inspector took account of the views of parents.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. The childminder assesses and minimises risks in her home and garden successfully. She is aware of the local safeguarding procedures and her responsibility to protect children from abuse and neglect. The childminder ensures that children are always supervised. Necessary suitability checks for all adults have been completed. The childminder welcomes advice from local authority representatives, in order to review and improve her provision. Children's welfare is addressed well. The childminder keeps her child protection and first-aid knowledge up to date. Communication between the childminder and parents is good. The childminder shares information about individual children with other settings they attend, in order to promote continuity of care and learning.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

The childminder uses what she knows about children to ensure that they are challenged effectively to reach the next steps in their learning. She supports children effectively so that they acquire skills and a capacity to learn. Children make good progress. The childminder supports children's thinking skills and language development well. She gives children time to put their thoughts into words when she asks them questions. The childminder ensures that children who are a little less confident than others have equal chances to be heard. Children eagerly explore and investigate. They choose to play with sand and know that it is too dry to make sandcastles successfully. Children mix water into the sand and compare this to their actions during baking activities. They explore the change to the mixture and after patting it down describe it as flat and smooth.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Children enjoy their learning in a safe and welcoming environment. They play cooperatively and behave well. The childminder boosts their self-confidence as she praises their efforts, achievements and positive behaviour, such as sharing and helping each other. Children develop an understanding of dangers, for example, they know the rules for climbing up and down steps in the garden safely. Children's good health is promoted well. They manage their own self-care needs hygienically. Children are physically active and they eat healthy food. They help the childminder to choose and buy fresh fruit and vegetables, and play games that support their learning about healthy eating. Children's interest in the natural world is fostered well. They are growing potatoes and know that they will soon take them home to be cooked.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children develop good skills in readiness for the move on to pre-school and school. They are prepared well emotionally for moving on, for example, as they interact with other adults and children at groups. Children happily choose whether to play on their own or opt to play with their friends. Pencil control is developing well and children describe their own drawings. Children's vocabulary is good and they readily engage in conversation with the childminder. Older children are learning to link sounds and letters. Children count while they play and older children are able to recognise numerals up to 10.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 220429 Local authority Northamptonshire Inspection number 1043226 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 3 - 3 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 2

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 22 July 2013

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Telephone number

The childminder was registered in 1996. She lives in Daventry, Northamptonshire. The childminder operates all year round from 8am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, except for bank holidays and family 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

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Telephone number

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Telephone number

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