Childminder in Oxfordshire

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 22 May 2017 26 June 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 fully committed to providing the best possible care and education to the children she looks after. Since the last inspection, she has continued to evaluate and improve what she does and her provision is now of an outstanding quality.  The childminder shows consistently excellent teaching skills. She plans activities that fully capture children's interest and makes sure that they are continuously learning and achieving throughout the day.  The childminder has high expectations for all children and wants them to achieve to their full potential. All children, including those who face greater challenges in their learning, make outstanding progress from their starting points.  Children are proud of how skilled they are at staying safe and looking after themselves and others. They show great empathy for the needs of each other. They demonstrate exceptionally high levels of emotional well-being.

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This provision is outstanding

 The childminder works in extremely close partnerships with other professionals. She seeks advice and support and fully shares information about children's progress and needs. These strong partnerships have a very positive impact on outcomes for all children.

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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

 explore additional professional development opportunities to help build further on existing outstanding practice.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the childminder and children in the childminder's home and accompanied them on a walk in the local community.  The inspector discussed the learning that was taking place with the childminder.  The inspector took account of the views of parents and children.  The inspector spoke with the childminder about her understanding of safeguarding and first aid.  The inspector looked at some documentation, including the childminder's policies and children's records.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder takes active steps to ensure her knowledge remains current. She has a thorough understanding of what to do if she is concerned to protect a child's welfare. She makes ongoing reviews of what she does, for example, making further improvements to her already strong assessment arrangements. She builds outstanding partnerships with parents. For example, she successfully helps parents obtain the extra support or help they may need to enable their children to close any gaps in their learning. She updates her skills to ensure she can fully meet the needs of individual children, such as learning an extensive range of techniques to communicate with children who are slower to talk. She recognises the need to continue to develop her teaching skills in order to maintain her extremely high standards.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder makes excellent use of her skills to guide and inspire all children to learn. She monitors each child's progress very thoroughly and quickly identifies any gaps in learning. She then puts in place extremely effective strategies to enable these children to learn and achieve to a high level. For example, older children with less developed speaking skills are in no way disadvantaged because the childminder uses signing and pictures to communicate and extend learning. She uses what she knows about children's interests to plan and deliver experiences that inspire each child to extend their skills. For example, she used children's passion for a particular computer game to build their creative and literacy skills. They made a model of the buildings and wrote captions about the characters. Children were extremely proud of the end result.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children thrive in the positive, productive environment which the childminder creates. They show great consideration towards each other. They fully understand that some children are still learning skills that they have already mastered and are proud and helpful friends to each other. Children show a highly developed awareness of safety procedures. The childminder builds their confidence to manage their own safety, such as on walks to and from school. All children learn to enjoy all the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, such as when playing outdoors or choosing healthy snacks, and behave extremely well for their age.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children make excellent progress from their starting points and are extremely well prepared for their future learning, including the move to school. They develop a highly positive view of learning. They learn to value and appreciate the similarities and differences between themselves and others and the true value in being kind, helpful and respectful.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY261931 Local authority Oxfordshire Inspection number 1091714 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 0 - 4 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 4

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 26 June 2015

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2003 and lives in Littlemore, Oxford. She holds a relevant qualification at level 3. She offers care all day, Monday to Friday, throughout 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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