Green, Sian

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 6 March 2018 3 October 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

 Children make excellent progress from their starting points. Some children develop critical-thinking skills above typical levels of development for their age. The childminder engages in children's play and skilfully challenges and extends their learning and development. She asks questions that encourage children to make choices, problem solve how to do things and make numerous discoveries.  Children are exceptionally well behaved and play together cooperatively. The childminder continuously supports children to consider others' needs. Children develop excellent social skills. They are extremely kind and polite. They frequently include others in their play and patiently explain the rules of games to younger children.  The childminder is completing a degree in childcare. She uses knowledge from this training to continually improve her excellent teaching practice. For example, she has significantly improved her observation and assessment of children's development and

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This provision is outstanding

how she adapts activities to meet their individual needs.  The childminder establishes highly effective communication with parents and other early years provision to promote continuity in children's care and learning. She provides parents with regular progress reports that include children's next steps for learning. These include information about any gaps in children's learning and activities that can be used to support children's development at home.

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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

 consider ways to enhance children's already good concentration skills further.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed activities indoors and outdoors during the inspection.  The inspector completed a joint observation with the childminder.  The inspector talked with the childminder and children at appropriate times.  The inspector discussed self-evaluation with the childminder.  The inspector sampled documentation.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder has an excellent understanding of child protection procedures. She works highly effectively with other agencies to protect children and keep them safe. The childminder's teaching practice is excellent. She has an extremely sound knowledge and understanding of learning and development guidance. She supports children exceptionally well to make the best possible progress. Since the last inspection, the childminder has successfully improved children's early reading skills. She displays lots of print in the playroom and encourages children to look at books. Children make marks and draw pictures using different types of pens and paper. The childminder builds on these skills exceptionally well and teaches children to recognise and write their name.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder carefully observes, assesses and checks children's progress. She uses this information to provide an exceptional range of high-quality activities. The childminder promotes children's independence extremely well. Children are independent learners and decide to use the resources in many different ways. For example, they choose to join different-shaped cardboard tubes using sticky tape and decide to use them as train tunnels. The childminder makes activities enjoyable and exciting for the children. She gives children time to think and talk about everything they do. She uses their interests to extend their learning and vocabulary exceptionally well. For instance, children confidently talk about the speed they make the toy cars travel down a length ceiling coving. Occasionally, the childminder does not consider how to organise resources in different ways to support children's good concentration even further.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children are extremely happy and settled. The childminder develops exceptionally close emotional relationships with children. She provides children with an excellent role model. She supports children to learn to share and explains that they need to look after each other. The childminder extremely successfully captures children's interests and their involvement in activities, and encourages them to learn together and from each other. She joins in children's play, and respects and responds to their ideas to help them achieve their aims. The childminder successfully promotes children's good health. Children learn to take risks within safe limits. For instance, they walk along low-level walls and jump off with extremely good control.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children develop an extremely wide range of skills they need for their future learning and starting school. They are exceptionally keen to learn. They develop excellent communication skills, and confidently talk and share their ideas. Children energetically hit metal pots and pans attached to a wall to create different sounds. They learn about weight and measurement. For instance, they fill pots with mud, carrots and potatoes and use these to try to balance scales.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY299924 Local authority Hampshire Inspection number 1070647 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 1 - 7 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 6

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 3 October 2014

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2005. She lives in Aldershot, Hampshire. She provides care for children on Monday to Friday for most of the year. The childminder holds a level 3 diploma in homebased childcare. The childminder receives funding to provide free early education to children aged 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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