Childminder EY433311

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 7 October 2016 5 October 2012

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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 is well qualified, extremely knowledgeable and well organised. She ensures children are nurtured, thrive and achieve exceptionally well. The childminder carefully supervises children, calmly fostering their health, safety and comfort during routines and activities. She skilfully enthuses children to be confident and purposeful during exciting and suitably challenging activities.  Parents highlight the childminder's high degree of professionalism, excellent variety of activities and her love and care for their children. She exchanges information about their children's care and development every day. Parents' views about their children's learning needs are reflected in the childminder's planning and teaching and in ideas for activities for them to follow up at home.  The childminder's excellent assessments, planning and teaching promote children's outstanding progress. She astutely checks children's progress and expertly assesses

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This provision is outstanding

and plans for their future learning needs in partnership with parents and other providers. The childminder consistently reflects on the impact of her interactions and use of resources and activities on children's enjoyment and skills.  The childminder skilfully interacts with children. She encourages and praises them so they eagerly join in, persevere and try hard. The childminder expertly focuses on children's individual learning priorities to promote their rapid progress. She adeptly reinforces younger children's developing speech and vocabulary and builds on their interest in recognising and using numbers, colours and shapes.  The kind and attentive childminder calmly comforts children who soon settle and confidently explore the extremely inviting, well resourced and child-friendly surroundings. Children are reassured because the childminder follows up information from their parents about their interests, routines and favourite toys. Parents really

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This provision is outstanding

appreciate her regular feedback about how their children are getting on.

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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

 review the planned changes to provide children with even more exciting and challenging opportunities to explore textures and use different media and materials in various ways, and evaluate the impact this has on their learning.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities and assessed the impact this has on children's learning.  The inspector carried out a joint evaluation of an activity with the childminder.  The inspector spoke with the childminder and children at appropriate times during the inspection.  The inspector looked at children's assessment records and a range of other documentation, including policies and procedures.  The inspector checked evidence of the childminder's training and suitability and discussed her plans for improvement.  The inspector took account of the views of parents from her discussions with them during the inspection and from their written feedback to the childminder.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The childminder is extremely enthusiastic and committed to her professional development. She completes regular training, including safeguarding, paediatric first aid and food safety. The childminder draws on her personal research, links with other providers and involvement in a toddler group to influence her care and teaching. This has helped her to develop her highly effective teaching of letters and sounds and enhanced children's enjoyment of music and movement. The childminder adeptly plans for improvement. Her use of an online assessment system has consolidated her thorough assessments and excellent relationships with parents. The childminder intends to further extend children's use of media and materials and to evaluate how these influence their imagination and discoveries. Arrangements for safeguarding are effective. The childminder has a thorough knowledge of abuse, neglect and local safeguarding procedures. She carefully monitors

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

children's welfare and knows exactly what to do if she has concerns about a child.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder plans and organises rich and varied activities that reflect children's abilities, needs, interests and ways of learning. She enhances their understanding and skills through toddler activities and outings. These offer children new experiences and challenges. Children confidently play with other children, use different toys and equipment and tackle more demanding physical apparatus. They relish investigating and exploring natural materials and new surroundings. Children create colourful pictures from collage materials, chalks, pencils and paint. They dress up and imaginatively act out roles. The childminder uses these and other activities to build on children's life skills. A child safely 'cuts' wooden play food while the childminder prepares vegetables for their meal.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children thoroughly enjoy being with the childminder and form close bonds with her. She ensures children know what is happening next, encourages their choices and helps them to get on well with other children. The childminder successfully fosters young children's sharing, attentive listening, turn taking and being helpful. Children learn about the needs of others through activities and socialising and learning with other children. They are very well cared for and helped to independently manage their self-care. Children understand about healthy eating as they enjoy delicious, nourishing meals and join in cooking activities. Children relish being outdoors. The childminder adeptly develops their stamina and control in movement, balance and climbing. She ensures children safely use utensils, toys and equipment and teaches them about road and fire safety during activities.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are extremely confident, focused, creative and resourceful learners who are proud of what they achieve. They are very well prepared for their future learning including starting school. Children become articulate speakers who use a wide vocabulary. They recognise and use letters and sounds and thoroughly enjoy songs, rhymes, books and stories. Children confidently use numbers for counting, comparing and problem solving and eagerly identify colours, shapes and sizes.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY433311 Local authority Worcestershire Inspection number 1059945 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 0 - 10 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 5

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 5 October 2012

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Telephone number

The childminder was registered in 2011 and lives in Redditch in Worcestershire. She operates all year round from 8am to 6pm, Tuesday to Friday, except for bank holidays and family holidays. The childminder holds an appropriate qualification at level 3. She provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children. The childminder runs a local parent and toddler playgroup once a week in a nearby village where she has close links with a pre-school.

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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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