Childminder EY479555

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 8 September 2016 Not applicable

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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 a good understanding of how children learn. She listens to children as they play and provides them with a good range of resources to support their interests. The childminder successfully helps children to make good progress in their learning.  The childminder completes the progress check for children between the ages of two and three years. She identifies children's age and stage of development and involves other professionals when necessary to support children's progress.  The childminder reflects on the service she provides to families. She gathers the views of parents to help her to identify improvements that have a positive impact on children's learning.  Settling-in arrangements are effective in helping parents and children to become familiar with the childminder and her family. The childminder provides a happy, safe and secure environment, where children show that they are emotionally secure.

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This provision is good

 Children behave very well. They learn to share and take turns. The childminder is a good role model and reminds children to use good manners and to be kind to each other.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 The childminder has not been successful in involving all parents in their child's learning.  The childminder does not always vary her teaching techniques to ensure that children are constantly able to learn as much as possible from activities.

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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

 explore ways to involve all parents in their children's learning, both in the setting and at home  enhance professional development to help raise the quality of teaching so that children are able to learn as much as possible from activities and make more than good progress.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities indoors and outdoors and assessed the impact this has on children's learning.  The inspector completed a joint observation with the childminder.  The inspector spoke to the childminder and children at appropriate times throughout the inspection.  The inspector looked at relevant documentation, such as the childminder's training certificates.  The inspector checked evidence of the suitability of the childminder and adult members of the household.  The inspector took account of views and comments left by parents.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

Arrangements for safeguarding are effective. The childminder has a good understanding of the signs and symptoms of abuse. She keeps her child protection training up to date and receives regular information from the internet and local authority about changes in legislation. She assesses her home daily for dangers and removes any hazards. The childminder carries out regular fire evacuation procedures with children. She helps them to understand what to do in an emergency in her home. The childminder monitors her assistant's practice and shares her policies and procedures with him. She ensures that he has completed the required training to help him deal with a child's medical emergency. This helps her assistant to take an active part in the service they provide for children, even though he only works with the childminder occasionally.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

The childminder uses observations and assessments to monitor the good progress children are making and to identify next steps in learning. She provides a varied and exciting range of toys and equipment to support children's interests indoors and outdoors. The childminder plays alongside children and supports their communication and language skills as she talks to them about their play. Children are motivated to learn and enjoy challenges that the childminder sets them. For example, she asks them to crack an egg when they make cakes. She introduces mathematical language into activities. Older children look for numbers on weighing scales and count out the number of cake cases in the tin. Younger children enjoy developing their physical skills as they stir the mixture and spoon it into cases.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

The childminder takes children to the park to develop their upper body strength. They extend their physical skills as they ride on scooters and chase each other in the childminder's garden. Children demonstrate their independence. The childminder reminds them to wash their hands prior to eating. They have free access to the indoors and outdoors to extend their play and learning. The childminder helps children to prepare for their move on to school. She takes them to different groups to play with other minded children, where they develop their social skills and learn to share and take turns. Children have a good understanding of their local community and history. The childminder takes them to the museum where they dig for artefacts in sand. They visit the library, where children develop a love of books and listen to the childminder as she reads them stories.

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Outcomes for children are good

All children, including those in receipt of funding, make good progress from their starting points. Children develop good mathematical skills. They confidently put puzzle pieces together and learn about how shapes can be fitted together to make a picture. Children have a very good imagination. They pretend to fly to space in a tent rocket and say they need petrol to make it fly. They count 'one, two, three, blast off'. Children are confident and have good communication and language skills in readiness for school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY479555 Local authority North Lincolnshire Inspection number 988754 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register Age range of children 1 - 5 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 6

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Telephone number

The childminder was registered in 2014 and lives in Scunthorpe. She operates all year round from 7.30am to 7pm, Monday to Friday, except for family holidays. The childminder receives funding for free early years education for three- and four-year-old children. She holds a childcare qualification at level 6 and occasionally works with an assistant.

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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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