Childminder, Out-of school day care in Southampton

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 3 July 2017 Not applicable

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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 excellent knowledge and skills to provide a rich and stimulating experience. The children are exceptionally enthusiastic and enjoy exploring the wide range of exciting activities that the childminder designs. This helps the children to further explore ideas and develop their thinking skills.  The childminder combines her excellent understanding of how young children learn with her accurate assessments. This helps her to plan exciting, creative activities that help them to practise their language and counting skills. For example, children enjoy playing with hidden treasures in the sand. When they find an object they create a story about a magic shell that has adventures.  Children have very high standards of behaviour and confidence. Older children suggest games to play, such as hide and seek. They count to 20 and hide so that younger children can find them easily. This helps to support children's 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. They are extremely appreciative of the service they receive.  There are extremely effective relationships between professionals, including staff at 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 support parents to capture significant learning moments at home and regularly share them with the childminder.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector looked at a wide range of documentation, including children's records, certificates and the childminder's self-evaluation form.  The inspector took account of parents' 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 in the outdoor area.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The childminder is highly motivated with extremely high expectations. She constantly challenges herself to improve the setting and to excite and motivate all children. They benefit from her enthusiasm for learning and awareness of living things all around them. The childminder's very close monitoring of children's achievements helps her to be sure that all children's progress is rapid and consistent. Occasionally, she does not get relevant information about the children's progress at home from all parents. The childminder develops high-quality resources using children's interests. For example, children are enthralled as they make a 'cake' in the mud kitchen, and plant seeds and flowers to take home. Safeguarding is effective. The childminder places a high priority on ensuring her knowledge is up to date and knows where to seek help for any concerns about children's welfare and care.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder's exceptional assessments help to inform her planning and keep all children eager to play and learn. For example, she introduced a large piece of card on the fence, which helped children to be curious and find pens and pencils to draw and write. Children wrote their names and made drawings of their parents. Younger children came to join in. Older children helped them to be successful at making marks with pencils. The childminder is very aware of how and when to support children, and when to observe. This helps her to support all children to achieve their very best. For example, when children start to play the drums with pencil and card, she helps them to find a box and turns it over to make a drum.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children are confident and extremely happy, and they help themselves to toys to extend their play. For example, they collect a slide and small balls to experiment and watch in wonder as the balls spiral down to the bottom. The very high standards of behaviour and consistent expectations of the children help them to develop their emotional well-being and resilience even further. The children are encouraged to be independent. For example, they help to clean up the soil that spills when they are carrying their flowerpots. The children learn respect, for instance, as they stroke the family cat very gently. Children have great fun as they run, jump and hide. They practise their balance as they kick balls and bounce around the garden on large balls.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children make exceptional progress. Older children are able to talk with confidence and are extremely curious, imaginative and fun-loving. They ask questions about things they find. For instance, when they find a worm, they look at it closely using a magnifying glass. Children's language skills are exceptionally well developed. They recall stories, instructions and rhymes. For instance, they sing about ducks and practise their subtraction skills, checking their answer by counting the number of ducks that are left each time one is removed. Children are very well prepared for their future learning.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY482985 Local authority Hampshire Inspection number 1005477 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register Age range of children 0 - 4 Total number of places 3 Number of children on roll 3

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2014. She is based in West End, Southampton and works flexible hours, all year round, to suit parents' needs.

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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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Telephone number

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