Childminder in Hackney

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 30 June 2017 Not applicable

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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 Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Good 2

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 2

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This provision is good

 Children behave well. They respond positively to the childminder's warm and frequent praise. They learn to share and be kind to others.  The childminder and her assistants provide highly exciting and challenging activities for children. Their meticulous observations and assessments of children's learning identify accurately what they need to learn next. This helps children to make rapid progress from their starting points.  The childminder evaluates every aspect of her setting. She considers how to further develop her and her assistants' skills and knowledge. The childminder seeks the views of staff, parents and children to help inform her ongoing improvement plans.  Children's language and communication skills flourish. The childminder and her assistants are attentive and maximise every opportunity to help children think, recall and extend their language.  The childminder ensures children have a broad range of experiences to develop their

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This provision is good

awareness of the wider world and to teach them about differences between themselves and others.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 The childminder's assistants do not have the very secure level of safeguarding knowledge that the childminder has. They are not all confident about how to identify children who may be at risk from extreme behaviours and views.

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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

 ensure all assistants have an extremely robust knowledge and understanding of the wider issues of safeguarding.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the childminder's teaching and its impact on children's learning.  The inspector checked documents, including the childminder's background, suitability checks and training certificates.  The inspector held discussions with the childminder about children's individual learning and development.  The inspector carried out a joint observation with the childminder regarding a planned activity.  The inspector looked at a range of the childminder's policies and procedures, including those relating to safeguarding.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

The childminder shares information effectively with other settings that children attend to help support continuity in their experiences. Safeguarding is effective. The childminder has a good, secure knowledge of the local procedures for reporting concerns about children's welfare. The childminder and her assistants regularly review the progress children make. The childminder uses highly effective systems to help her to identify any gaps in children's progress. She regularly reviews the effectiveness of her practice and that of her assistants to help children to maintain their excellent progress. The childminder provides her assistants with good guidance and support to meet the needs of all children.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder has a superb understanding of how to plan challenging and purposeful activities and experiences that help children of all ages make rapid progress. She ensures that her assistants also have a secure understanding of how to effectively assess and plan for children's future learning and development. Children show exceptionally high levels of concentration and perseverance for their age and consistently demonstrate high levels of engagement in activities. Children's current interests are extremely well provided for. For example, a current interest in the life cycle of a butterfly has sparked various activities. Children have made model caterpillars and put them in dark cupboards to 'hatch', made fruit salads to represent what the caterpillar ate and are about to hatch their own caterpillars, watch them grow into real butterflies and then release them in the garden.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Children enjoy good opportunities to develop their muscles and coordination through regular exercise in the well-resourced garden. They are very confident as they balance, climb and jump. The childminder and her assistants develop children's understanding of the benefits of following a healthy diet well. For instance, they discuss the 'good' and 'bad' foods the caterpillar eats in a story and talk about why he has a stomach ache after eating all the unhealthy food. The childminder and her assistants prioritise children's safety and emotional well-being. They are vigilant about hazards as they arise. They gently support children to understand how to keep themselves safe, for example, to be careful when jumping on the trampoline and to hold on while climbing.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children make exceptional progress in their learning and development from their starting points and are extremely well prepared for when they start school. They develop excellent social skills and are very confident and settled in their surroundings. Children have great fun at this setting. They are constantly engaged in exciting activities indoors and outdoors. For example, younger children laugh, giggle and babble with adults and their friends. Older children are highly stimulated and concentrate extremely well as they learn about sounds and the letters they represent, and write their names.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY488038 Local authority Hackney Inspection number 1010955 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register Age range of children 0 - 8 Total number of places 13 Number of children on roll 11

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2015. She works with four assistants. She operates from 8.45am until 3.30pm on Monday to Thursday, and from 8.45am until 12.30pm on Friday, during term time only. The childminder holds a relevant qualification at level 3. The childminder receives funding to offer free early education for children aged two, 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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Telephone number

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