Childminder EY343760

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 22 March 2017 26 January 2015

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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 is dedicated to her role. She is extremely committed to ensuring that she keeps herself updated in her skills and knowledge, including for example, extensively reflecting on her practice after gaining a professional qualification.  The childminder uses robust policies, procedures and risk assessments to significantly guide her practice in supporting children's health, safety and well-being. There are excellent partnerships with others sharing care of children, such as links with nursery and pre-school staff to ensure continuity for children's development.  Children's behaviour is exemplary. They show high levels of self-control and respect for each other and their environment. Children have extremely warm bonds with the nurturing childminder who has an excellent knowledge of children's starting points.  The quality of teaching is outstanding. Children make rapid progress in all areas of their

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This provision is outstanding

learning and thoroughly enjoy activities that engage them incredibly well.  The childminder has implemented highly effective practice to monitor the progress children make and to close any gaps in their learning. All children thrive in the childminder's care.  The childminder is highly skilled in adapting activities so that all children can take part. For example, she proactively changes the environment, resources and tools, so that the youngest of the children can plant seeds, as well as their older friends.

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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

 support children's curiosity further by helping them to offer more ideas, and learn how to predict what may happen as they enjoy activities that support their active learning.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed children during their play indoors and outdoors and during their interactions with the childminder.  The inspector spoke to the childminder about her aims for activities during the inspection, and how she plans for children's learning.  The inspector sampled the childminder's documentation and children's records.  The inspector read feedback from parental and children's questionnaires. She spoke to the childminder about how she works with her co-childminder and how they evaluate the quality of the provision.  The inspector discussed with the childminder how she updates her skills and knowledge.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The childminder is passionate about her role and consistently strives to improve her practice. She is highly reflective about the ways to improve outcomes for children. For example, she highlights how she has actively assessed the learning environment indoors and outdoors to enhance outcomes for children. She is extremely proactive in seeking the views of children and acting on these. Safeguarding is effective. The childminder demonstrates an exemplary knowledge of how to protect children. Partnerships with parents and others are extremely well established.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder is highly confident in how she interacts and is particularly enthusiastic in helping children to have fun. She offers an extremely interesting and challenging environment where children are exceptionally well motivated to engage in their play. However, she acknowledges that building further on the questions she asks children could improve their curiosity even further and help them think more about how to predict what may happen, such as when planting and growing. The childminder implements meticulous planning for children's next steps, which she shares with parents on a regular basis. She is extremely proactive in developing highly successful strategies to engage parents in children's learning at home related to the current topic. For example, she provided them with plants for identifying colours of flowers, and measuring their growth.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The childminder plans the stimulating learning environment meticulously. She is extremely proactive in helping children recall what they enjoyed most during the day to gain a positive insight of how children view their learning and to support growing confidence in their play. Children demonstrate exceptional self-control in their activities. They listen intently as the childminder explains the importance of hand-washing routines and as she shows them how to prepare fruits for snack time. She proactively supports the wider ways children reflect on differences, including taking part in activities where children learn about diversity, such as in games and eating food from other cultures.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children demonstrate an exceptional range of skills that support their readiness for future learning. Children engaged incredibly well as the enthusiastic childminder read stories using a puppet as a prop. They were extremely attentive and interacted with the puppet showing high levels of interest in early literacy and in particular of books. The younger children excitedly found similar books for the childminder to read again. Children are inquisitive to grow tomato plants and sunflowers, and carefully plant these following the childminder's instructions. All children quickly reach their full potentials.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY343760 Local authority Hampshire Inspection number 1086848 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 1 - 4 Total number of places 4 Number of children on roll 6

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 26 January 2015

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2006. She lives near Chineham, Basingstoke, Hampshire. The childminding provision operates Monday to Thursday, all year round. She holds a childcare qualification at level 6. The childminder works with her husband, who is her co- childminder. The childminder receives funding for the provision of free early education for children aged three and four years.

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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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