Childminder EY466927

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 9 February 2017 9 April 2014

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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's teaching practice is outstanding. She has an exceptional knowledge of children's individual needs and capability to learn. She makes superb use of what she knows children can already do to support, extend and challenge their learning and development. Children make rapid progress from their starting points.  The childminder's communication with children is excellent. She provides children with an exceptional role model. She is patient and talks respectfully with children to build their social skills. Children thoroughly enjoy the involvement of other children in their imaginative play, for example, inside dens made from furniture and blankets.  Children are exceptionally motivated in their play. The childminder provides children with an outstanding learning environment and develops their confidence as they gain new skills. She introduces resources that extend children's interest in learning and their

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This provision is outstanding

concentration extremely effectively.  Partnerships with parents are excellent. The childminder works with parents exceptionally well to help children feel happy and secure. For example, she changes the daily routines so children are confident to separate from their parents.  The childminder meticulously reviews and updates her skills to benefit children. For example, a speech and language course has helped her skilfully support children to become highly effective communicators.

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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

 consider ways to support children to read simple words and sentences to build on their excellent early reading skills.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector and the childminder observed children during an activity and completed a follow-up discussion about children's learning, progress and behaviour.  The inspector talked with the childminder and children and observed indoor activities.  The inspector looked at a sample of documentation.  The inspector took account of parents' comments within documentation.  The inspector discussed self-evaluation with the childminder.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder regularly seeks information that continually develops her outstanding understanding of child protection procedures to keep children safe. The childminder uses evaluation to improve her professional development and her outstanding teaching practice. Since the last inspection, the childminder has used information about how to develop children's learning outdoors extremely effectively. For example, she skilfully helps children to increase their excellent understanding of the world while looking for birds, which they match to pictures. The childminder accurately monitors children's learning and development and uses her assessments to help children make the best possible progress.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder plans an exciting range of activities to meet children's individual needs and provide them with excellent challenge. For example, during cooking activities, she encourages children to recognise numbers on weighing scales. She uses language such as 'more' and 'less' to help children learn about quantity. Children enjoy chopping and mixing the ingredients, cracking eggs into a bowl and learning to use tools, for example, an electric mixer. The childminder challenges children's thinking and language development extremely effectively, although, on occasions, she does not extend children's excellent pre-reading skills to help them read words.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children are very well behaved, polite and remember to say 'please' and 'thank you' at appropriate times. The childminder forms very close emotional relationships with the children. Her caring approach to meeting their individual needs is exceptional. She skilfully includes all the children she cares for in activities. The childminder develops children's awareness of their good health and safety very effectively. For example, she talks with children about visits to the dentist and the care of their teeth. The childminder provides excellent opportunities for children to understand and value differences in society. For example, children make 'I have a dream' posters and masks in recognition of Martin Luther King day.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children make rapid progress in relation to their developmental starting points. They learn a vast range of skills that prepare them extremely well for starting school. Some children are exceeding typical levels of development for their age. Babies grow in confidence to play independently alongside other children. Older children confidently name their favourite dinosaurs, understand and recall the meaning of words such as 'carnivore'.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY466927 Local authority Hampshire Inspection number 1069608 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 4 Number of children on roll 2

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 9 April 2014

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2013. She lives in Havant, Hampshire. The childminder is in receipt of funding for the provision of free early education for children aged three and four years. She offers care for children from Monday to Friday, for most of the year.

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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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