Childminder EY475788

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 5 September 2017 15 January 2016

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This inspection: Good 2

Previous inspection: Requires Improvement

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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 Good 2

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This inspection: Good 2

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1

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This provision is good

 Since her last inspection, the childminder has reviewed her documentation to ensure she meets all the requirements to maintain accurate records to keep children safe.  The childminder seeks good information on children's starting points and works well with other providers to be consistent in supporting children's development. She monitors their overall progress well to identify where they may need additional support.  Children learn as they participate in a wide range of challenging activities, which helps them make good progress in their learning and development.  The childminder plans her environment extremely well, indoors and outdoors. Children use an extensive range of high-quality resources that enables them to make choices, explore and investigate.  Children have very strong relationships with each other and the childminder. They are exceptionally secure, settled and happy. Children's behaviour is exemplary and they

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This provision is good

play together harmoniously.  The childminder provides excellent support for children's independence. She builds their confidence extremely well so that they want to try new skills and persevere.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 The childminder sometimes answers her own questions too quickly, not always giving children enough time to process their thoughts and respond.  The childminder recognises the importance of using information from parents to support her planning. However, she does not gain consistent feedback for all children to enhance their learning equally.

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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

 give older children enough time to think and respond to questions  seek consistent information from all parents on children's learning at home.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed activities and the quality of teaching indoors and outdoors.  The inspector spoke with the childminder and carried out a joint observation.  The inspector took account of the childminder's self-evaluation and parents' survey.  The inspector sampled documentation, including children's development records.  The inspector checked safeguarding information and the safety of the premises.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder ensures her assistant has the skills and information he needs to protect and promote children's welfare. For example, he has a paediatric first-aid certificate and knows how to implement safeguarding policies. The childminder keeps up to date with all aspects of children's safety and knows what to do if she has concerns. The childminder seeks parents' views to help her evaluate her practice. For example, she has looked at different ways of providing parents with information on their children's development. She has continued with her current system at their request. The childminder continually updates and extends her knowledge and skills. For instance, through training she has improved her teaching of mathematics in the outdoor area. She has found this particularly useful in supporting the youngest children.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

The childminder makes good observations of children's achievements. She notices what interests them and provides effective support to move their learning on. For example, older toddlers were fascinated by a tray of dry foods. The childminder helped them find different ways to scoop oats into containers and role modelled counting and mathematical words. Children copied saying 'full now' and found big and small pots. The childminder provides successful support to enable children to make choices about what they want to do and how they want to achieve it. For instance, children choose the colours and equipment they want to paint with. She engages children well in listening to stories and participating in action rhymes.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The childminder plans her excellent resources well to provide children with an outstanding range of experiences. For example, they pretend to cook with real fruits and vegetables. This enables them to feel the textures, see the sizes and shapes and smell and taste their differences. The childminder provides extremely sensitive reassurance to children, especially babies and children new to the setting. This helps to underpin their confidence to learn extremely well. For example, young children persevered with trying to cut a potato with a safety knife and kept going back to try again. The childminder supported them extremely well with understanding safety and encouraged them to keep going. They were exceptionally pleased when they eventually succeeded. Children thrive in the healthy environment. They have excellent opportunities to be active and understand the importance of safe and healthy practices.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children develop good skills and attitudes that prepare them well for their next stages of learning. They confidently lead their play. For instance, babies crawled to investigate the sights and sounds of interesting materials. Older children climbed confidently up steps to use a slide, developing their physical skills very effectively. Children are imaginative and have good opportunities to learn about the natural world. They spontaneously notice spiders, recall seeing snails previously and look at how much rainfall there has been.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY475788 Local authority Somerset Inspection number 1057971 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 1 - 2 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 7

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 15 January 2016

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2014. She lives in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset. The childminder provides care four days a week for 48 weeks a year. She holds a childcare qualification at level 3. The childminder's son works as her assistant as and when required.

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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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