Childminder EY453509

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 10 November 2016 8 March 2013

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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

 Children make extremely good progress, relative to their starting points. The childminder uses her excellent knowledge and skills to consistently extend their learning through highly effective teaching. Children's confidence and self-esteem are excellent. Children are curious and inquisitive and they show through their exemplary behaviour that they feel extremely emotionally secure.  The childminder is strongly committed to developing her skills to achieve consistently high quality outcomes for children. For example, developing her proficiency in using sign language with children has had an extremely positive impact on their developing communication, particularly for babies and children with limited speech.  The childminder has excellent relationships with parents, and successfully involves them in their children's learning from the very beginning. Extremely effective systems of sharing information enable the childminder to include children's achievements at home

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This provision is outstanding

when planning for their future learning.  The childminder provides unusual activities for children to explore and investigate. For example, they were fascinated as they looked at gel-filled shapes and numbers with a light-box, and the childminder's excellent communication skills helped children to describe what they could see and feel.

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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

 continue to develop activities that provide children with further sensory experiences, particularly for those who prefer to learn outdoors.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the childminder and children engaged in learning activities indoors and outdoors.  The inspector spoke to some parents and read written feedback from others.  The inspector spoke to children about the activities they chose to take part in.  The inspector talked to the childminder about how she safeguards children, and reviewed her safeguarding policies and procedures.  The inspector reviewed the effectiveness of the childminder's planning for children's individual learning and her systems to monitor their progress.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The childminder's self-evaluation is rigorous. She constantly strives to continually improve children's learning experiences. For example, she has developed excellent story sacks that contain extremely good resources to use alongside books when reading together, to bring stories to life. This has particularly benefited younger children in helping them learn to focus their attention and develop their listening skills. She plans to provide more sensory play for children who enjoy learning outside. Safeguarding is effective. The childminder's knowledge of local safeguarding procedures is extremely good. She has a thorough understanding of what to do to help protect children from harm.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder uses her extremely precise assessments of children's progress very effectively to identify and close any gaps in learning. She plans excellent activities that are interesting, challenging and extend children's learning very well. For example, the childminder hid numbered poppies around the garden, and children thoroughly enjoyed searching for these. They counted them to see if they had found all 15, and calculated how many were still to find. The childminder encouraged children to lay the poppies in number order to identify which were still missing. The childminder regularly bakes with children, making excellent use of activities like this to develop children's knowledge of where food comes from. For example, she takes children to visit the cows at the dairy farm to see where their milk comes from. Children talk knowledgeably about how butter and cheese are made. The childminder develops highly successful relationships with other

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

early years providers, sharing information and planning together for children's progress.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children enjoy excellent activities that encourage them to be active, and they eagerly join in these. For example, they pretended to be different animals and moved their bodies like dinosaurs and horses, and counted how many jumps to get from one side of the garden to the other. Children's safety awareness as they use apparatus to balance and climb is extremely good. They also demonstrate this very well in role play, such as using gloves to remove pans from the oven because these would be hot in a real-life situation.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children consistently achieve highly and are extremely well prepared for the next stage in their learning, including going to school. They are very independent. For example, children under two years of age determinedly tried to put on waterproofs and wellingtons without the childminder's help. Children develop extremely good skills to prepare them for future learning. They communicate very well, and they confidently make their own choices and decisions throughout the day.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY453509 Local authority Somerset Inspection number 1063042 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 1 - 10 Total number of places 4 Number of children on roll 7

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 8 March 2013

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2012. She lives in Yeovil, Somerset. She works Monday to Friday from 8am to 6pm, all year round.

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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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