Childminder EY412959

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 22 November 2016 12 July 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

 The childminder has an extremely strong commitment to continuing her professional development to expand her knowledge of early years education. She reflects on new learning outstandingly well to support excellent outcomes for children, such as finding innovative ideas to support children who have special educational needs.  Very rigorous observations and assessments, and the childminder's extremely high expectations of all children, support her very well to plan highly stimulating challenges. These very skilfully extend children's learning. The childminder monitors children's progress meticulously and ensures all children make excellent progress in their learning from their starting points.  There are superb partnerships with parents. They comment extremely positively on the additional advice and professional support the childminder offers. She offers excellent support to parents in how they can support children's learning in the home even

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This provision is outstanding

further.  Children develop a superb understanding of how to keep themselves safe. For example, on walks into the local community the childminder supports children incredibly well to understand the importance of looking and listening for approaching cars. She helps children to decide when it is safe to cross the road.  Children display incredibly high levels of confidence and independence. For example, they are self-sufficient in putting on their outdoor clothing.

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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 build on the already excellent support and learning opportunities for children to understand about what makes them and their families unique.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed children engaged in activities and the interactions of the childminder with them.  The inspector sampled various documents, including children's learning records, the childminder's self-evaluation and relevant policies and procedures.  The inspector held discussions with the childminder in relation to observations of the children's play, learning and progress.  The inspector took into account the written views of parents.  The inspector accompanied the childminder and children on a walk in the local area.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder has an extremely secure understanding of how to keep children safe. She completes regular training and she has a thorough understanding of child protection and the procedures to follow to safeguard children from harm. The childminder uses in-depth self-evaluation to reflect on her provision and includes the views of parents and children in the process. She identifies priorities to develop her provision further. The childminder develops highly effective partnerships with other early years settings. She keeps them fully informed of children's progress and involved in their learning to support excellent continuity for children's continued learning.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder has an expert knowledge of how children learn. She plans activities to challenge children to develop superb mathematical understanding. For example, children precisely estimate and check numbers of objects as they categorise them into groups. The childminder is skilful at introducing new mathematical language and concepts such as 'diagonal' into their learning as they make patterns and arrangements. She is very skilled in knowing when to interact with children's play and when to give them time to consolidate their thoughts and ideas through investigating and exploring.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children form particularly strong relationships with the childminder and develop immense confidence. She seeks in-depth information from parents about their home routines and people that are important to them to ensure she knows their children thoroughly. However, the childminder has identified that she can further extend ways to support children to understand how they and their families are unique. Children develop excellent physical skills and coordination. For example, they experiment with and choose different ways of moving their bodies as they sing enjoyable songs on their walks.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children make substantial and sustained progress consistently in all areas of learning. They show high levels of interest and become deeply absorbed in play activities. Children are incredibly observant and ask questions about very detailed similarities and differences of the things they see. For example, they notice and ask 'Why do some leaves look very dark and dirty on the footpath compared to others?' Children have superb opportunities to develop pre-writing skills. For example, they write letters to their parents and comment on the 'wiggly' and 'long lines' they make. Children demonstrate an amazing understanding of positional language. For example, on walks they make decisions to make right or left turns to get to places they are familiar with in the community. Children are exceptionally well prepared to develop the skills for future learning and school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY412959 Local authority South Gloucestershire Inspection number 1062391 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register Age range of children 2 - 4 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 3

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 12 July 2013

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2010. She lives in Bradley Stoke, South Gloucestershire. She receives funding for the provision of free early education for children aged two, three and four years. The childminder works all year round, Monday to Friday.

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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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