Childminder in Cambridgeshire

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 14 December 2016 27 September 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

 Since the last inspection, the childminder has skilfully enriched her understanding about how to teach and engage children exceedingly well. She plans and delivers very exciting activities. The childminder expertly extends everyday tasks and educational opportunities to superbly promote children's independence and progress to the highest level.  The childminder engages parents and children exceptionally well. She listens to their ideas and ably adapts her practice. For example, when parents seek specific advice the childminder provides them with time to talk, or detailed information and practical resources to assist them.  The childminder expertly notes the progress made by all groups of children within her setting. She accurately identifies where key skills are not in place and takes decisive action to skilfully close these gaps in children's learning. This is completed in partnership with children's parents and where required, other professionals, such as

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This provision is outstanding

speech and language therapists.  The childminder places equality at the heart of her practice. She encourages parents to share information about their cultural backgrounds and reflects these within her setting. The childminder is vigilant to possible instances of discrimination and provides activities that enable children to learn right from wrong. She also teaches them to use their voice to keep themselves safe.  The childminder provides an extremely rich, varied and imaginative range of experiences that children explore with great interest and enthusiasm. She gives her full attention to promoting their continued excellent development through fun, enabling play that impassions, engages and motivates them to learn.  Children make consistently excellent progress in relation to their starting points.

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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

 monitor the impact of training and development opportunities to further enhance teaching to make sure outcomes for children remain at an outstanding level.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities indoors and outside, and assessed the impact this has on children's learning.  The inspector completed a joint evaluation of an activity and discussed this with the childminder.  The inspector looked at relevant documentation and evidence of the suitability of people living in the household.  The inspector took account of the views and opinions of parents through emails and verbal feedback during the inspection.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. The childminder is vigilant about the well-being of each child in her care. Children are encouraged to keep themselves safe, for example, as the childminder promotes safety while children engage in foresting activities. Children learn about mushrooms, toadstools and berries. They learn from a very young age which ones are dangerous and which ones will not harm them. Children use resources to further embed their understanding and protect their personal safety, such as published, child-appropriate guide books that provide visual and written information about the plants they discover. The childminder pays excellent attention to evolving the overall quality of her practice and continually strives for excellence. She understands that her monitoring processes could include more precise evaluation of the impact her continuous training has on children's progress.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Children are highly involved in the planning of the stimulating activities. For example, they add photographs to their learning books and discuss what they would like to do next. Children effectively extend their vocabulary, reminiscing about activities they have thoroughly enjoyed. The childminder organises an exceptional range of opportunities that reflects and values the diversity of children's experiences. Children embed their communication, physical and social skills exceptionally well. They quickly become absorbed in personal learning as the childminder provides toys and resources that tempt their imagination and feed their most current interests.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children have tremendous opportunities to experience the wider world, increasing their physical and language skills. They explore the local countryside and woodlands. Children think critically as they create dens and learn about natural resources. For example, they find out that if you bump into a puffball fungus, it releases spores into the air that eventually land, helping more fungi to grow. Children closely observe changes in nature throughout the year. They are motivated to learn as they collect natural items, such as florescent pink berries with orange centres, taking these back to examine more closely, draw and paint. The childminder plans menus carefully, providing children with meals and snacks to help them grow and thrive. Children enjoy planting and growing fruit and vegetables, discovering how eating these provide their bodies with different types of nutrition.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

The children eagerly join in the wide range of extremely interesting and well-planned activities in addition to their own pursuits. All children, including those who receive additional funding, are extremely well prepared for the next stage in their learning and eventual move on to school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY438362 Local authority Cambridgeshire Inspection number 1059967 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 1 - 3 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 3

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 27 September 2012

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Telephone number

The childminder was registered in 2012 and lives in Caldecote. She operates all year round from 7.30am to 6pm, Monday to Thursday, except for bank holidays and family holidays. The childminder provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.

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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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