Childminder in Devon

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 28 September 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 Good 2

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This inspection: Good 2

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 2

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This provision is good

 Children make good progress in learning, relative to their starting points. The childminder's precise and evaluative observations, assessments and tracking of children help her to quickly identify and address any gaps in their learning.  Children are happy and confident, with high self-esteem. The childminder is a good role model who provides a calm and nurturing environment where children's views are valued. This helps them to feel emotionally secure.  The childminder has good relationships with parents. Settling-in visits are flexible to meet the needs of individual parents and children. The childminder uses these well to begin to establish children's starting points, to assess their future progress.  The childminder's effective self-evaluation helps her to identify areas for improvement. She monitors the impact of any changes by the positive effect on children's learning. For example, having improved outdoor resources to provide a wider range of learning

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This provision is good

experiences, children, particularly boys, now spend more time in imaginative play.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 The childminder has not been fully successful in encouraging all parents to regularly share their children's achievements at home, to support the monitoring of their learning.  The childminder sometimes misses opportunities to encourage older children to use their knowledge of numbers. For example, as children searched for and found different numbers, she named these without asking them to try first.

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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

 further encourage all parents to share information about their children's achievements at home, to support the monitoring of their progress in learning  be more consistent in encouraging children to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of numbers.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the childminder and children engaged in learning activities, indoors and outdoors.  The inspector talked to the childminder about how she monitors children's progress, and plans for their next stage in learning.  The inspector talked to children and read parents' comments.  The inspector sampled required documentation, including safeguarding procedures, and talked to the childminder about how she implements these.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

The childminder focuses well on her own professional development to ensure good-quality outcomes for children. She is well motivated. For example, she made good use of online resources and local professional networks to deepen her knowledge and understanding of how children learn and develop through play. This helped her improve her observations of children so that these now provide a good reflection of what children are learning and how. Safeguarding is effective. In addition to the required safeguarding training, the childminder has attended further courses to make sure she has a very thorough knowledge of how to help protect children from harm. She understands the correct local procedures to follow if she has child protection concerns.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

The childminder plans well to make sure children have a good balance of activities that are challenging and interesting. She uses her good communication skills well to support children's speech and language development and to extend their learning. For example, while investigating the conkers and leaves they collected, very young children described the conker casings as 'spiky'. Older children described the contrast between the inside and outside of the casings. The childminder extended this well by encouraging them to explore other items that have different textures, such as tree bark being rough on the outside and smooth inside. The childminder supports children well as they develop the small-motor skills they will need for writing. For example, young children used different-sized tweezers to move large and small objects into containers. Older children made marks to represent their names, and drew faces and shapes on the chalkboard.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Children behave well and take responsibility very seriously. For example, they help to feed the pet rabbits each day. They are careful to pour the correct amount of food into each bowl and alert the childminder to any water bottles running low. Children thoroughly enjoy being active and choose to spend time outdoors. Very young children show good control of their bodies as they play football, accurately kicking the ball and running after it. Older children show their safety awareness as they talk about the ground being slippery after rain, and remind each other to hold the handrail on the steps.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children develop good skills that help to prepare them well for the next stage in their learning, including going to school. They are independent, with very young children taking their coats and boots off when they come indoors with minimal help. Children have good opportunities to further develop their good social skills on regular outings into their local community, learning well about people and places.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY493272 Local authority Devon Inspection number 1023427 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 1 - 3 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 6

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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 and lives in Bideford, Devon. She operates on Monday to Friday from 7.30am to 5.30pm, all year round. The childminder provides funded 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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