Childminder in Gloucestershire

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 15 February 2017 14 November 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 uses feedback from parents and children extremely well to inform practice and make changes to her provision. For example, she has changed the days she goes on outings to make sure the different children get a chance to go on them.  The childminder makes excellent assessments of children's learning and development, and identifies when they may need extra support. She plans exciting and engaging experiences for children based on their individual needs and interests. Any gaps close rapidly and children make outstanding progress.  The childminder provides children with highly stimulating play areas. All play materials are accessible to the children. Children make independent choices about what they want to do and play. Children are highly motivated and extremely confident in making decisions.  The childminder has strong partnerships with parents. She regularly shares information with parents and provides advice and guidance for them, such as how to support

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This provision is outstanding

weaning and toilet training. Children receive consistent help at home and with the childminder.  The childminder is vigilant about protecting children. She has used information from recent training to update risk assessments and policies to support vulnerable children and those who have special educational needs and/or disabilities. Children are kept very safe.

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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

 build on children's interest in modern technology to extend their learning further.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of the childminder's teaching in the home.  The inspector took into account the views of parents through parents' testimonials and responses to questionnaires.  The inspector carried out a joint evaluation of children's learning with the childminder.  The inspector spoke with the childminder and the children at appropriate times during the inspection.  The inspector sampled paperwork, including policies and procedures, self-evaluation, risk assessments and children's records.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The childminder provides high quality care and education for all children, using thorough evaluations of her practice. For example, she introduced new ways of gathering information from parents about what children have already achieved, to make sure she plans effectively from the start. Training courses have helped her to reflect on how children learn best and to assess children more precisely to inform future planning. The childminder understands fully what may make a child vulnerable and is extremely confident about how to act on concerns about a child's welfare. Safeguarding is effective.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder develops children's communication skills exceptionally well. She extends conversations, asks searching questions and extends children's ideas and thinking highly successfully. For example, children concentrate and persist as they work out how to make the dough big enough for the cutter to fit on. The childminder teaches children to recognise numbers extremely effectively. She encourages them to solve simple calculations, such as recognising that she is holding up four fingers instead of three. Children are keen to show what they know and can do. For example, they eagerly, and competently, explore an electric guitar. However, the childminder recognises that, at times, she does not support children fully to expand on their information and communication technology skills.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The childminder sensitively boosts children's confidence in new social situations. She provides superb individual support and comfort, such as having favourite toys on hand when children have to say goodbye to parents. Children take part in exciting outings. For example, they thoroughly enjoyed a picnic and a journey on the bus. Children handled money and bought their own tickets. They were fascinated as they discussed the different things they saw through the windows. The childminder prepares children highly successfully for moving on to playgroup and school, including through shared visits.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are eager, curious learners. They show excellent imagination as they create elaborate storylines in their play about being stuck in a traffic jam when playing with the toy cars. Children make excellent links and progress in their learning. For example, they match the sound of home-made shakers to the rain hitting the roof of the conservatory and talk with the childminder about how rain comes from clouds in the sky. Children develop excellent self-care skills and understand healthy practices. They eagerly crack eggs into a bowl to make omelettes for lunch, use knives and forks to eat, and help to clear plates away to be washed.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY442866 Local authority Gloucestershire Inspection number 1080010 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 0 - 8 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 11

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 14 November 2012

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2012. She lives in the village of Bishops Cleeve, near Cheltenham in Gloucestershire. The childminder offers care from 8am to 5.30pm on Monday to Wednesday and from 7.30am to 5.30pm on Thursday and Friday. She operates all year round, except on Friday, which is term time only. The childminder has two registered assistants for emergency cover.

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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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