Braddick, Pauline

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 28 September 2017 5 December 2014

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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 has created a highly inspiring environment for children's learning. She inspires them to build their creativity, imagination and motivation to an exceptional level. All children make rapid progress from their starting points.  Children's emotional well-being is supported exceptionally well by the childminder. They consistently demonstrate excellent behaviour and respect for each other. Children are confident and display high levels of self-esteem.  The childminder forms highly effective partnerships with parents. They work well together to consistently meet children's needs extremely well. Parents are highly complimentary about the care their children receive.  The childminder is dedicated to ensuring the continuous improvement of the high- quality experiences she provides. She completes precise evaluations of the quality of her practice and strives to offer children excellent experiences and opportunities.

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This provision is outstanding

 The childminder has an exceptionally strong focus on children's safety. She methodically manages risks in her home and garden, and on outings. She plans highly effective activities to support children to learn how to keep themselves safe. For instance, she ensures that children are very aware as to what to do in an emergency and how to evacuate the house safely and calmly.

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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

 enhance the already excellent opportunities to build even further on children's understanding of healthy eating.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed children engaged in activities, including their interactions with the childminder.  The inspector discussed children's progress, and observed and discussed an activity with the childminder.  The inspector spoke with the childminder and the children at appropriate times during the inspection.  The inspector looked at areas of the premises used for childminding and sampled relevant documentation, including children's records.  The inspector reviewed parents' feedback by sampling written documents.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder has an exceptional level of safeguarding knowledge, to fully promote children's welfare. She uses rigorous observation systems to monitor children's learning and ensures that any identified gaps in their learning are narrowing successfully. She accurately identifies children's next steps and shares this information successfully with the parents to ensure consistency. The childminder precisely reflects and evaluates her practice and provision. She identifies additional professional training for herself and her assistant on which to focus. For example, highly effective planning is now in place and the childminder recognises how she can continually build on opportunities to teach children about healthy eating.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder has an excellent understanding of how children learn. Children make rapid progress in their learning from their starting points within a short period. The childminder provides excellent levels of support to extend children's communication and language skills. For instance, she questions children exceptionally well and uses every opportunity to teach them new words. The childminder teaches children exceptional early literacy and mathematics. For example, she makes excellent use of puppets to engage younger children in stories and number songs. She provides children with very exciting resources to extend their creative skills. For instance, during the inspection, children used their imagination to paint faces and play with water. The childminder successfully extended their learning, such as by asking them to share their ideas and identify colours and shapes.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The childminder has an excellent relationship with the children and they very quickly form secure attachments with her. Children feel highly valued and settled. They develop high levels of independence during activities as they choose from a wealth of high-quality resources which are easily available to them. Children develop very good self-care skills around personal hygiene, and enjoy exceptional healthy meals and regular fresh air. They have excellent opportunities to socialise and learn about differences between themselves and others. For example, children visit places of interest and playgroups to meet and interact with other children and adults, to develop their excellent social skills.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children, including babies, develop excellent skills and levels of attention to support their future learning. There are countless opportunities for babies and children to successfully develop independence. For instance, babies enjoy eating their own food, and children expertly peel their own fruit and put on their own shoes and aprons. Children develop extremely positive attitudes to learning. For example, they listen carefully to instructions and answer questions very confidently.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY422976 Local authority Enfield Inspection number 1071370 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 6 Number of children on roll 10

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 5 December 2014

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2011. The childminder works with one assistant. She offers full-time and part-time care each weekday, from 7.30am to 6pm, throughout most 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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Telephone number

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Telephone number

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