Childminder EY384522

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 6 July 2017 10 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 provides an exceptionally welcoming and highly stimulating home environment that supports children's needs and next steps in learning extremely well.  Children help to create exciting areas of interest, such as an outdoor kitchen and displays of the many interesting resources they collect during beachcombing activities.  Children form an exceptionally strong attachment to the extremely caring, sensitive and highly attentive childminder. This successfully supports their sense of well-being.  The childminder uses highly accurate and very precise systems to monitor and assess children's progress. She provides very enjoyable learning experiences to ensure children make exceptional progress from their starting points.  The childminder very successfully safeguards children. She supervises children very closely to ensure they are safe at all times, especially outdoors.  The childminder completes training, shares practice with other practitioners and reads

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This provision is outstanding

early years research. She continually extends her knowledge and skills exceptionally well. This has helped her to increase children's literacy skills, for example, by teaching them how to form lower-case letters, in readiness for early writing at school.  The childminder monitors and evaluates her practice exceptionally well. She takes account of the views of children and parents to help identify areas for improvement.

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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

 help children more to make links during their play and learning, and help identify and plan for future goals.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector viewed the premises, toys and equipment.  The inspector engaged in discussion with the childminder and children at appropriate times.  The inspector sampled documentation, including safeguarding procedures, suitability checks and children's records.  The inspector took account of recently written feedback from parents.  The inspector observed interactions between the childminder and children.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder has a very secure understanding of how to identify concerns and follow the local safeguarding procedures if required. She is very thorough in assessing and managing risk, and actively involves children in this process to raise their awareness of how to keep themselves safe. For example, children agree safety procedures for outings and the garden, and make safety information posters to display around the home. The childminder has very successfully improved outcomes for children since the last inspection. For example, she gathers excellent information from parents about children's starting points, to plan highly challenging learning experiences from the outset.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder provides a vast range of highly exciting and stimulating activities to extend children's learning exceptionally well. She makes excellent use of the local environment, such as the beach, to ignite children's natural curiosity and inquisitiveness. For example, children greatly enjoy finding unusual 'treasure' to study. The childminder encourages children very well to question what these objects are, where they have come from and how the sea has affected them. For example, she highlights the importance of recycling, extends children's awareness of the wider world and increases their understanding of recent history. The childminder quickly identifies and addresses any gaps in children's learning, but occasionally misses some opportunities to help children further their understanding of their own learning, and identify and plan for future goals.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The childminder knows children exceptionally well and meets their individual care and learning needs very successfully. Children follow her excellent example and are extremely well mannered, polite and helpful. They follow exceptionally good health and hygiene procedures and understand the importance of healthy eating, physical exercise and self- care. Children are eager to attend the setting and feel fully at ease as they move freely to select favourite toys and explore the garden. The childminder listens to and eagerly acts on children's suggestions, which enhances children's sense of self-esteem and self-worth. Children develop a very positive attitude to people's differences. Partnerships with parents and other providers help to support shared care and learning exceptionally well.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are extremely settled, confident and eager to learn. Their language skills are very well developed. They express themselves freely and clearly, to make suggestions for play, recall past experiences and celebrate achievements. Children recognise letters of the alphabet and can place them in the correct order to form their name. They count with ease and confidently add and subtract to solve problems. Children recognise numerals and use this skill extremely well to develop exciting activities, such as making their own tombola. Children demonstrate exceptionally high levels of independence and are keen to take responsibility, in readiness for their move to other settings and school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY384522 Local authority Cornwall Inspection number 1093648 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 3 - 10 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 5

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 10 June 2015

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2008. She lives in Penzance, in Cornwall and provides care for children on weekdays during term time. The childminder is in receipt of funding to provide free early education to 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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