Childminder EY483994

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 20 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 provides an exemplary role model to children. Her drive, infectious enthusiasm and 'can do' attitude, coupled with the provision of highly stimulating learning environments, provoke children's curiosity and eagerness to try new things.  The childminder has very high expectations of each child. All children, including those with specific needs, make substantial progress from their starting points. Children develop their social skills extremely well. They get on exceptionally well together, forming friendships from a young age, and accept and respect each other's differences.  Children delight in their experiences, indoors and outdoors. They follow their interests enjoying imaginative activities that captivate their attention. For example, children play with water; discover how to create puddles of different depths and then jump in them.  The childminder evaluates her service perceptively. She knows where she needs to

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This provision is outstanding

improve her teaching skills and focuses her professional development on those areas.  The childminder knows precisely each child's background, current abilities and what they need to learn next. She engages parents in supporting their children's home learning, and has established links with other professionals involved with the children that help her to improve the children's outcomes. She fully meets their physical needs.

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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

 implement the plans for professional development to extend skills in working with children who have special educational needs, with particular regard to supporting their communication and language skills as effectively as possible.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the childminder's teaching and its impact on the children's learning.  The inspector and the childminder jointly observed the children's play and had follow- up discussions about the children's behaviour, learning and next steps.  The inspector took account of the parents' views.  The inspector checked the childminder's understanding of safeguarding matters, and sampled a range of documents, including risk assessments.  The inspector had discussions with the childminder about how she evaluates her service and plans improvements.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder places children's welfare at the heart of her work. She knows precisely how to keep them safe and protect them from harm. She implements robust policies and supervises children vigilantly, such as when in the garden. The childminder has high expectations for her professional development. For example, she is undertaking an early years degree. She has ambitions to expand her childminding service for children with special educational needs and identifies that she does not have a full range of skills to do so, such as how to use signing with full competence. The childminder actively seeks parents' and children's views on her service and acts on feedback received.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder uses her expert knowledge of how children learn to devise simple, innovative ways of furthering children's learning and development. For example, children choose from various-sized and different-coloured crockery and cutlery to decide which they wish to use when eating and drinking. This encourages them to decide whether, for example, to have a go at eating with a fork, using a knife to cut a banana or to try drinking from a mug without a top. The childminder plans specific activities to teach children new skills, such as how to fold paper to create a print. She works alongside the children and demonstrates this well, exciting children by the result, so that they want to do the same. She is careful not to stifle children's creativity or to curtail experiences abruptly so that, for instance, children mix paints freely and complete activities to their own satisfaction. Such highly effective learning boosts children's talking, physical skills and

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Trusting relationships between the childminder and children underpin children's confidence to investigate the exciting resources available. Children are independent learners who develop and find out about things through willingly 'having a go'. For example, they say, 'Take your shoes off!' to the childminder and she joins them in puddle-jumping saying, 'it's refreshing,' and asking whether they can hop, to further stretch their physical skills. Children follow high standards in hygiene. The childminder works closely with parents, for example, during potty training, to further consistency between home and the setting.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are extremely eager to learn and join in. They behave extremely well for their ages, following the childminder's exemplary model. They listen to her instructions and are very responsive to her expectations, such as sitting at a table to eat and asking when they may 'get down' and play. They have very positive attitudes to playing outside. Children are extremely well prepared for the next stage in their learning.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY483994 Local authority Swindon Inspection number 1001151 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 2 - 4 Total number of places 5 Number of children on roll 5

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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 the Woodhall Park area of Swindon, Wiltshire. The childminder operates her service each weekday throughout the year, with the exception of family holidays and bank holidays. The childminder holds a relevant qualification at level 3. The childminder is in receipt of funding 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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