Childminder 145052

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 11 August 2016 10 December 2012

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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 maintained her good-quality practice. She has undertaken further professional development and uses her new knowledge effectively to improve the outcomes for children. For example, she works very consistently with her assistant to help children learn to respect others and to play exceptionally well together.  The childminder seeks parents' and children's views to help improve her provision. For example, she involves children in deciding new activities from perusing relevant internet sites. She plans and provides stimulating experiences that children thoroughly enjoy. Children make good progress from their individual starting points.  Children are happy, and clearly at ease in the adults' company and welcoming environment. They enjoy choosing what to do and, for example, make their own decisions about whether to play indoors or outdoors.  Strong partnerships with parents help the childminder meet children's individual care

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This provision is good

needs effectively. The childminder keeps parents fully updated about children's progress, and they keep her informed of what children achieve at home.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 Adults do not always give children time to think and compose their responses before intervening and providing them with answers to questions.  The childminder does not use writing resources expertly to help younger children when they are keen to write, and misses chances to encourage older children's writing skills.

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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

 extend even further the support and encouragement given to children to develop and use their early writing skills  give children sufficient time to compose their answers to questions to extend their thinking and language skills.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector viewed all areas used by children, indoors and outdoors.  The inspector talked with childminder, her assistant and the children.  The inspector took account of parents' views through written references and a conversation.  The inspector read a variety of relevant paperwork, including some policies, documents relating to children's assessments, the record of attendance and documents relating to the childminder's suitability to work with children.  The inspector and childminder completed follow-up discussions about children's learning, progress and behaviour, following two specific activities, one indoors and one outdoors.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder has a clear understanding of her responsibilities to protect children from harm and keep them safe. She assesses new activities carefully to make sure that children can safely undertake them. She makes sure that her new assistant knows how to implement the safeguarding procedures. The childminder checks the quality of her service regularly. She makes good use of her experience to decide aspects for improvement. She supports her assistant and guides her professional development effectively to give a consistent approach to teaching and children's behaviour management. The childminder makes effective use of her assistant to support children's learning; for example, to provide children with a choice of indoor or outdoor play. Adults support diversity and gender equality effectively.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

The childminder involves parents in assessing what children can do when they start. She has a clear understanding of the progress children make and what each child needs to learn next. She follows children's interests well and keeps them engaged purposefully in challenging activities. The childminder extends children's learning skilfully and adapts her expectations for children's different stages of development. For example, when children chose to create paper 'fruit people', she helped younger children learn to fold paper and expected older ones to do it themselves. The childminder extends children's vocabularies well. For example, children learnt to 'concertina' their paper-folds and described their growing tomatoes as 'orangey-red'.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Children understand the childminder's high expectations for their behaviour. For example, they respect house rules, including closing doors quietly and eating together at the kitchen table. Children know that the childminder will help them, such as in sorting out any minor disagreements. She helps children learn to negotiate and, for example, teaches them about 'fair play'. Children learn to behave in safe ways, such as by walking indoors. Adults support children's understanding of healthy living effectively. For example, children enjoy chatting with everyone at sociable mealtimes, discuss whether flavoured water is healthy and try different fruits. Children celebrate others' differences, successes and ideas, such as trying blackberries in pancakes.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children are well prepared for their next stage of learning. They have positive attitudes to learning and willingly try new experiences. They listen carefully to adults. They are helpful, for example, when offering to lay the table. Children learn to speak clearly, are polite and confident. They learn to count, recognise shapes and sound letters in names.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 145052 Local authority Wiltshire Inspection number 1058760 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 12 Number of children on roll 7

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 10 December 2012

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 1996. She is located in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. The childminder operates her service each weekday from 7.30am until 5.30am. She is available throughout the year, with the exception of bank holidays and family holidays, and two weeks at Christmas.

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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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