Childminder EY476956

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 27 July 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 and her assistants pursue excellence in all they do. For example, they demonstrate an uncompromising, highly successful motivation to maintain the highest levels of quality. The childminder is extremely effective in undertaking self-evaluation and includes the views of the assistants, parents and other professionals.  Exemplary relationships between the childminder and her assistants help demonstrate excellent role models for children's behaviour. Children show extremely high levels of respect and consideration towards each other.  Teaching is highly responsive to the children's needs and it is of a consistently high quality. Children make excellent rates of progress in relation to their starting points.  There is an extremely sharp focus on helping children to acquire communication and language skills and on supporting their physical and personal, social and emotional skills for future learning.

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This provision is outstanding

 Highly stimulating activities help encourage children to be highly motivated and eager to join in. For example, children regularly access a variety of rich, natural learning environments, such as the beach and woodland.  Children have a rapidly growing understanding of how to maintain their health, for example, through nutritious foods and regular exercise. This has been recognised with an outstanding food award from the Children's Food Trust.

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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

 build on the already excellent opportunities for children to be even more involved in evaluating their achievements and learning.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed activities and the interactions between the childminder, her assistants and the children in the indoor and outdoor environments.  The inspector took part in a joint observation with the childminder.  The inspector took account of parents' views.  The inspector viewed a range of written documentation, including children's development records and policies and procedures.  The inspector spoke to the assistants about different aspects of their roles, including planning and safeguarding.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The childminder is exceptionally skilled in assessing individual and groups of children's progress and monitoring practice and the environment. For example, when children began moving to school, she altered the room layout. This helped to give children extremely rich and highly stimulating opportunities to explore their turn-taking, sharing and writing skills within a more structured environment. The childminder supports her assistants' performance exceptionally well to help maintain highly effective teaching practices. For example, they attend regular training sessions and use an extremely effective programme for professional development. Safeguarding is effective. The childminder and her assistants keep up to date with safeguarding practice and implement their procedures exceptionally well to help keep children safe from harm.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder and her assistants get to know children extremely well. They maintain a two-way flow of information with parents exceptionally well to help ensure they are fully engaged in their children's learning. The childminder precisely and accurately observes and assesses children's learning. The childminder and her assistants have extremely high expectations of children and interact exceptionally well with them to help extend their abilities and skills. For example, they use tools and resources, such as sand, to build on their creative skills and early handwriting to help challenge children even further. The childminder and her assistants follow children's lead appropriately and provide extremely effective and timely interventions to help challenge children's learning.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children are extremely eager to join in. They lead their own play effectively and develop their own ideas. The childminder appreciates that she can extend this further for children to be even more involved in evaluating their achievements and learning, to help build on the ownership of their individual needs. The childminder is extremely effective in helping children to have a very positive sense of themselves and their place in the world. For example, they value, celebrate and explore children's home lives exceptionally well in rich and varied ways. The excellent key-person system helps to sensitively support children to become emotionally well prepared for the next stage in their learning.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are extremely well prepared for the next stage of their education. They are highly motivated and eager to engage in the activities on offer. They value and respect each other's ideas and often work in collaboration to achieve goals within their play. Children receive an exceptional range of activities that reflect and value others and gain an excellent understanding of diversity beyond their immediate experiences.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY476956 Local authority East Sussex Inspection number 972612 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 1 - 8 Total number of places 12 Number of children on roll 17

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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 Ninfield, East Sussex. The childminder has a childcare qualification at level 4. The childminder employs four assistants. Two hold relevant level 6 qualifications and one has qualified teacher status. The provision is open Monday to Friday from 7am until 6pm. The childminder receives funding for early education for children aged two, 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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