Childminder EY316921

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 22 November 2017 18 May 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 shows children the utmost respect at all times. She is incredibly attentive and nurturing, helping children to form wonderfully trusting bonds with her and to thrive in her care. Children are exceedingly happy, confident and ready to learn.  The childminder makes excellent use of her observations of children to meticulously track their development. She targets precise areas for children's individual next stages of learning. Children make rapid progress from their starting points.  Incisive self-evaluation takes excellent account of the views of parents, children and her co-childminder. The childminder builds continuously on the high quality of the provision, including further developing her skills through ongoing training to promote and maintain excellence.  The childminder provides an extensive range of high-quality challenging activities and experiences, indoors and outdoors, that meets the needs of all children across all the

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This provision is outstanding

areas of learning.  The childminder regularly updates her skills, for example, she attends specific training to improve her processes for monitoring children's progress. She effectively implements policies and procedures, which she uses to underpin her excellent practice and to share with parents.

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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

 develop further the excellent opportunities for children to learn about the benefits of following a healthy diet.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the childminder's teaching and its impact on the children's learning.  The inspector checked documents, including the childminder's background and 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 of a planned activity with the childminder.  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 outstanding

The childminder has a very comprehensive knowledge of how to protect children's welfare and what to do should a child be at risk of harm. Safeguarding is effective. The childminder has developed very strong partnerships with parents. The excellent flow of information about children's starting points, achievements and progress keeps parents informed at every level. The childminder shares ideas for activities that parents can continue to do at home with their child. The childminder works very well with other settings, readily sharing her assessment and planning information with them to ensure children's learning is always promoted to the maximum. The childminder has an excellent knowledge of the early years foundation stage, which she delivers highly effectively.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder has a highly positive attitude and confidently adapts her excellent teaching methods to suit each child. Children are animated and participate enthusiastically in an innovative variety of activities. For example, the childminder buries numbers and shapes under a variety of cereals and challenges the children to find the correct number, which they do enthusiastically. She ensures she uses a variety of excellent questioning techniques to help to enable children to think and respond independently. The childminder makes learning interesting and enjoyable, for instance, children make shapes with pasta tubes following lines on templates as they count the number of sides and corners. The childminder expertly enables children to develop their mathematical interests as they weigh pasta and bran flakes to see which is the heaviest.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The children have exceptionally warm and secure attachments to the childminder. They are encouraged to choose activities and are supported to become highly motivated learners. The childminder offers children many opportunities to learn about healthy eating and to make healthy choices. For example, she works with parents to ensure contents of lunchboxes are healthy. However, on occasions, she misses some opportunities for children to learn about the benefits of following a healthy diet. Children benefit from regular trips to local children's groups, the forest and libraries to develop their social skills, providing an extension to the stimulating activities the childminder already provides. The childminder is a superb role model of behaviour. She highly values and celebrates children's achievements and contributions.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children develop extremely positive attitudes and are motivated to learn. For example, they constantly ask questions and show a great interest in books and the written word. This prepares them very well for their next stages in learning, including school. Older children are learning about sounds and the letters they represent while younger children learn new words and phrases in their play and in conversation with the childminder. Children are very confident and excellent communicators.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY316921 Local authority Barking & Dagenham Inspection number 1092523 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 4 Number of children on roll 4

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2006. She is situated in Dagenham, in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. The childminder operates each weekday from 7am to 6.30pm, throughout most of the year. She holds an early years qualification at level 3 and works alongside her mother, who is also a registered childminder. 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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