Childminder in Staffordshire

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 19 December 2017 Not applicable

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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 builds and maintains highly effective partnerships with parents, the school and the local authority adviser. This helps her to maintain the highest levels of well-being and achievement for all children.  The childminder makes sure there is an extremely good two-way exchange of information with parents about their child's progress on an ongoing basis. This significantly enhances parent's understanding about how they can further support their child's learning at home.  Children's social and emotional development is supported extremely well. The childminder skilfully uses every interaction as an opportunity to build highly effective relationships with children and to develop their understanding and use of language.  The childminder's initial and ongoing assessment of children's progress is highly comprehensive, accurate and clear. This is used to identify precise and challenging next

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This provision is outstanding

steps in children's learning. The childminder provides an extensive range of highly stimulating activities that fosters children's high levels of curiosity, imagination and concentration across all areas of learning.  Children's health and well-being is promoted exceedingly well. The childminder takes the children on a range of exciting outings that offers them optimal physical challenge and sensory experiences. For example, they visit country parks, pumpkin farms and a duck pond, where children are encouraged to interact with the natural environment.

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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

 continue to focus professional development on raising teaching skills as far as possible and maintaining children's already excellent outcomes.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities indoors and assessed the impact this has on children's learning.  The inspector completed a joint evaluation of an activity with the childminder.  The inspector held a number of discussions with the childminder. She looked at relevant documentation and evidence of the suitability of persons living in the household.  The inspector took account of the views of parents and children spoken to on the day and from information included in the childminder's own parent survey.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. The childminder is highly skilled at identifying and successfully minimising any potential risks to children. She successfully implements an extensive range of exemplary policies and procedures, which support children's health, safety and well-being. The childminder has attended a course on how to support children's early language development. This has significantly increased her already very good awareness, knowledge and confidence in supporting children's communication development and providing highly successful interventions when needed. The childminder has identified the potential to undertake further training opportunities, to enhance her already first-rate teaching practice. She recognises that ongoing highly focused professional development significantly contributes to children's continued rapid progress.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder provides a wealth of inspiring opportunities that engages and motivates children. For example, children concentrate exceptionally well as they poke, squash and roll the dough as they shape their creations. They persevere as they practise their scissor skills and try to cut the dough. The childminder develops children's communication skills exceptionally well, such as by introducing new vocabulary and using questions that challenge children to think. She models how to make a sphere shape with the dough and describes her actions. The childminder enhances this activity further by encouraging children to name and recognise the colours of the dough and to count the spherical dough shapes that they have made. Each child is praised for their attempts, thereby developing their self-confidence. The childminder acknowledges children's interests and builds on these. For example, when a child uses a dough tool as a trumpet, the childminder talks

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

about this and suggests they play with the musical instruments. Children concentrate deeply, such as when they play with flour. The childminder sounds out the initial letter in children's names and models how to write them in the flour. Children are exceptionally well prepared to take their first steps into nursery or school.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Meals and snacks provided for the children are extremely nutritious and well balanced. The childminder strongly promotes outdoor learning and provides a wealth of stimulating learning opportunities for children in the garden. For example, children enjoy using the swings, rope ladder, trampoline and slide. This offers excellent opportunities for children to develop agility, balance and coordination, and to take manageable risks in their play.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children make excellent progress from their starting points. Children search for their favourite book, they climb onto the childminder's lap and snuggle up and share a story together. They are extremely self-assured, happy and interact freely and enthusiastically with the childminder. Children develop particularly close friendships with each other, where they learn to share toys, experiences and feelings.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY493123 Local authority Staffordshire Inspection number 1029154 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 11

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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 Heath Hayes, Cannock. She operates all year round from 7.45am until 5.45pm, Monday to Friday, except for bank holidays and family holidays. The childminder holds an appropriate qualification at level 3.

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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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