Routledge, Linda Ann

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 19 May 2017 6 May 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 uses her knowledge and skills to provide children with a rich and stimulating experience. The children are exceptionally enthusiastic and enjoy exploring the wide range of exciting activities that the childminder designs. The childminder very effectively helps the children to further explore ideas and develop their imaginations.  The childminder combines her excellent understanding of how young children learn with her knowledge of the community. She takes children to local farms, parks and music groups, extending their understanding of the world around them and providing further opportunities for them to practise their language skills.  Children have very high standards of behaviour and levels of confidence. They help themselves and each other to share toys that extend their play. Children are very respectful and help to tidy away all the activities. They demonstrate very high levels of

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This provision is outstanding

emotional well-being, independence and social skills.  Partnerships with parents are exceptionally well developed. Parents appreciate the childminder's homely setting. The very close working relationship between parents and the childminder helps them to be fully involved in their child's learning and care.  There are extremely effective relationships with practitioners from the other settings the children attend. Children make exceptional progress and are very well prepared for their next stage in learning.

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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

 continue to refine self-evaluation processes to review and maintain high-quality teaching and excellent outcomes for children.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector looked at a wide range of documentation, including children's records, the childminder's qualifications and her self-evaluation.  The inspector took account of parents' and children's written views.  The inspector observed and assessed the quality of teaching and learning.  The inspector held discussions with the childminder in relation to observations of children's play, learning and progress.  The inspector observed play outside and discussed the children's experiences.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The childminder is highly motivated and has extremely high expectations of herself and others. She constantly challenges herself to enthuse and motivate all children. They benefit from her exceptional ability to understand child development. The childminder's very close monitoring of children's achievements helps her to ensure that all children's progress is rapid and consistent. She helps her childminding assistants to reflect on their practice and attend relevant training, which helps them to continue to improve their practice. The childminder intends to continue reviewing the effectiveness of the teaching to make sure that children continue to make excellent progress. Safeguarding is effective. The childminder places a high priority on ensuring that everyone working with the children understands the local child protection procedures.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder's exceptional assessments help to inform her planning and keep children eager to play and learn. As needed, the childminder gains help from other professionals to support children's speech and language development. When playing a lotto game, the childminder makes it interesting and relevant for each child by asking questions they can answer from their own experience. She uses spontaneous learning opportunities highly effectively. For example, when the children were playing outside, she encouraged them to think about the very changeable weather. They collected umbrellas to carry on playing outside in the rain. They listened to the noise the raindrops made and sang songs about it. When the sun came out, the children were encouraged to look for the rainbow.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children are confident and extremely happy. They know they can help themselves to toys to extend their play. For example, they suggest they should have a race and children collect bicycles and bouncing balls to use for this. They ask to use the windsock as the starting flag. Children enthusiastically join in. They sustain their concentration, remain very focused and communicate their ideas extremely well. Children are encouraged to develop independence in their learning and their personal care needs.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children make consistently high rates of progress. They talk with confidence and have extremely curious, developing, enquiring minds. They ask questions and answer a range of questions about things they find. For instance, they asked the childminder about the weather and noticed when rain changed to hail. Children's language skills are exceptionally well developed. They are developing skills they will need in readiness for learning to read. Children are supported to learn how to write their own names. They are very well prepared for the next stage in their learning.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 131040 Local authority Brighton & Hove Inspection number 1089432 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 12 Number of children on roll 9

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 1993 and lives in Hove, East Sussex. She works with one other childminder and three assistants, who work at different times of the week. The childminder works all day on Monday to Friday, for 51 weeks 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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