Fox, Seema

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 1 March 2017 5 March 2013

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This inspection: Good 2

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Good 2

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This inspection: Good 2

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 2

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This inspection: Good 2

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 2

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This provision is good

 The childminder makes meaningful and accurate assessments to identify potential gaps in development and help children with the next steps in their learning. All children, including those who speak English as an additional language, make good developmental progress from their starting points.  The childminder works effectively with her co-childminder to continually reflect on her service. She understands the importance of involving others in this. For instance, she encourages feedback from parents and older children, through regular questionnaires, and develops her provision taking their views into account.  Children are happy and settled. The childminder manages their behaviour well. She provides a home from home environment for children to investigate, and they are keen to explore what is on offer.  The childminder encourages early reading skills. For instance, children help to turn the pages and lift the flaps during a story, learning how to carefully handle a book.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 At times, the childminder does not provide the best possible opportunities for young children to express and use their creativity in some activities.  The childminder does not make the most of opportunities to extend children's understanding of how to follow a nutritious balanced diet and have a healthy lifestyle.

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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

 help younger children to extend their creativity further in adult-supported activities  build further on children's developing understanding about the importance of eating well and having a healthy lifestyle.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the interactions between the childminder and children during activities.  The inspector sampled a range of documentation, including children's development records, policies and procedures, self-evaluation and risk assessments.  The inspector spoke to the childminder and children at appropriate times throughout the inspection.  The inspector read written feedback from parents and considered their views.  The inspector discussed children's learning with the childminder.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder has a good knowledge of safeguarding and knows how to keep children safe. She knows what to do and who to contact if she has a concern about a child's welfare. The childminder works closely with her co-childminder to identify areas for improvement in their provision. The qualified childminder builds on her professional development well and extends her knowledge, for example, from training and links with other early years professionals. This helps her obtain guidance and information to develop her practice further. The childminder routinely shares good information with parents, such as progress in children's learning, or discusses concerns.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

The childminder provides activities that encourage children and motivate them to learn. For instance, children are excited to play in the water tray, filling containers and pouring water through water wheels, showing delight as they make the wheels turn. Children learn about diversity, for example, they access resources that promote positive images of children from other cultures and storybooks in other languages. The childminder skilfully extends children's learning, such as by adding books and reading stories about fire engines as children choose to play with the engines and fire station. The childminder supports children's communication and language skills well; and builds on their development effectively. For example, she adds more words to the sentence as she talks to children to help increase their understanding.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

The childminder ensures that all aspects of her provision and the activities children take part in are fully risk assessed. This helps to keep children safe. The childminder and her co-childminder are highly responsive to children's interests. For example, they joined in enthusiastically with children in a favourite 'fall down' game. All children had an enjoyable time demonstrating their developing physical skills, building on their levels of confidence and their awareness of space. The childminder encourages good hygiene routines. For instance, she uses a hand washing song to encourage young children to make lots of bubbles while they wash their hands before snack.

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Outcomes for children are good

All children make good progress from their starting points and develop the skills they need for the move on to nursery or school. For example, children experience and develop early mathematical skills, including counting backwards, as they sing a variety of number rhymes. Young children investigate the early stages of technology, for example, as they play with children's computers. They learn about cause and effect as they push the buttons, laughing as they hear a duck 'quack'.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY303824 Local authority Hampshire Inspection number 1061888 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 1 - 7 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 6

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 5 March 2013

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Telephone number

The childminder was registered in 2006. She lives in Aldershot, Hampshire. The childminder works with her husband as a co-childminder. She operates from Monday to Friday between 6.30am and 7.30pm, all year round. The childminder holds a childcare qualification at level 3.

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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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