Childminder EY495109

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 19 March 2018 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 has superb knowledge of the early years foundation stage requirements. She makes exemplary use of her qualification, training and professional development, to ensure extremely high-quality teaching, prepare for the next stages in children's learning and achieve excellent outcomes.  The skilful childminder uses extremely perceptive assessment and tracking meticulously to ensure she promptly identifies any potential gaps in children's learning. She takes swift action, involving parents wholeheartedly, to encourage children's progress.  There is excellent support for young children's communication and language skills. For example, children confidently use sign language and words to express their choices and needs. The childminder extends children's imaginations exceptionally well, for instance, through providing narrative to their actions, reading stories and singing rhymes.  The childminder supports children's emotional well-being exceedingly well in a caring

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This provision is outstanding

and welcoming environment. Children form very strong bonds with the childminder, who values them and treats them with great respect.  The childminder keeps parents very well informed of children's progress and provides extensive ideas to support learning at home. She gathers insightful information from parents throughout their children's time with her. She uses this information highly effectively to plan enticing and stimulating activities, which children enjoy immensely.

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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

 help younger children to continue to make more choices from the wide variety of resources, to extend learning even further.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the childminder's interactions with children and spoke about their learning as children played inside.  The inspector considered the written views of parents.  The inspector talked to the childminder about her understanding of the early years foundation stage requirements, her professional development and how she evaluates her setting.  The inspector sampled documentation, including children's assessment records and the childminder's required documentation, and policies and procedures.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder is extremely vigilant and supervises children exceptionally well. She has excellent understanding of her comprehensive policies and procedures, which she implements highly effectively to protect children. She has extensive understanding of the procedure to follow should she have a concern about a child. The childminder uses extremely effective evaluation of her provision. She is highly successful in developing accurate action plans to improve outcomes for children. For example, she recognises a need to develop further the outdoor provision and to provide children with greater knowledge of resources to extend their individual choices.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder knows children exceedingly well and plans purposeful activities to challenge their development expertly. Children are highly motivated to learn and thrive through the childminder's superb interactions. The skilful childminder understands how children learn. For example, she models mathematical language exceptionally well as she demonstrates size, shape and quantity, to help children make connections. She provides children with every opportunity to imitate actions and explore independently, which they do with great delight and enthusiasm.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The childminder uses her attachment training extraordinarily well to ensure children are very happy and settled. She is an excellent role model and helps even the youngest children to learn about health, hygiene and safety. For example, following highly effective analysis of accident records, she explains to children the importance of keeping the play space clean and tidy to avoid injury. Children also learn through singing their tidy-up song. The calm and patient childminder helps children manage their feelings and behaviour exceptionally well. For instance, she acknowledges how young children feel and labels their emotions when they struggle to share toys. Children form very caring friendships. For example, they pass a younger friend their drink when they cannot reach it and share the plastic ducks equally.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children make outstanding progress from their starting points. Young children communicate their needs exceptionally well. For instance, they sign to the childminder when they want more fruit at snack time. Children develop excellent listening skills and follow instructions exceedingly well, for example, as they investigate the plastic ducks frozen in ice. Children demonstrate very high levels of curiosity and intense concentration. For example, they enthusiastically explore the dried pasta and develop very strong small- muscle skills as they use tools purposefully. They show great interest in how things work, such as rotating the dial to move the pictures on a screen.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY495109 Local authority Bristol City Inspection number 1030146 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 1 - 5 Total number of places 3 Number of children on roll 2

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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 Knowle, Bristol. The childminding service operates Monday to Thursday, throughout the year. The childminder holds qualified teacher status.

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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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