Childminder in Gloucestershire

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 27 March 2018 26 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 is deeply committed to professional development. She monitors her assistant's practice closely and encourages her to develop special areas of expertise, such as understanding children's sleep needs.  The childminder has created an extremely enticing learning environment in the garden to maximise learning across the curriculum for those children who prefer to play outdoors. For example, toddlers excitedly enjoy the feel of the water as they put their faces into bowls of water.  Children of different ages play animatedly together. For instance, older children blow bubbles for toddlers to chase and catch; they laugh delightedly as they share their game.  The childminder and her assistant support even the youngest children to become inquisitive learners exceptionally well. They extend children's thinking, such as making links between the boats they play with in the garden and a boat in a story.

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This provision is outstanding

 The childminder is deeply committed to ensuring that children and babies who are new to the setting settle very quickly. She is extremely dedicated to following their home care routines, such as providing gentle music and an uncluttered space for sleep time.  The childminder and her assistant speak calmly and politely to children at all times. This helps children to learn quickly how to communicate well with others.

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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 systems for the exchange of information with schools, to support children's transitions to school highly effectively.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed care and teaching practices, indoors and outdoors, and discussed these with the childminder and her assistant.  The inspector read testimonials from parents and took account of the views expressed by parents.  The inspector viewed a range of documents, including those relating to statutory requirements.  The inspector had a tour of the setting, including discussing health and safety considerations with the childminder.  The inspector spoke with children and took account of their views.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder and her assistant fully understand signs that would alert them to have concerns, and the actions to take. They update statutory training regularly. The childminder is deeply committed to providing a safe setting. For example, she uses detailed risk assessments and takes swift action to address problems, such as identifying that a sand tray needs to be covered when not in use to avoid contamination. The childminder and her assistant review their practice very frequently. They identify swiftly areas that they need to understand better, to provide the best possible support for each child. For instance, they researched the different ways that children learn and now provide excellent opportunities for children to use their preferred styles, such as exploring movement with lots of vehicles.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder and her assistant skilfully use many ways to link areas of learning, such as pointing to words in books for older children to read. Toddlers learn that writing has meaning and develop literacy skills quickly. Children open a bag excitedly to find foods from the story. They talk about size and shape, as they enthusiastically feel vegetables. The childminder skilfully supports children to solve problems, such as encouraging them to work as a team to lift the heavy watermelon. She monitors the quality of provision highly successfully to ensure that learning needs are very well met. She identified a need to develop mathematical teaching and now provides many opportunities for children to calculate. For instance, they decide how many cushions they need for a singing activity.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The childminder supports children to become independent very quickly. For instance, she teaches children to climb stairs safely, so older children use the bathroom independently. After eating, even the youngest children use flannels competently to clean hands and faces. The childminder establishes excellent partnerships with parents rapidly. She adapts her information sharing highly successfully to best meet each family's needs, such as verbal reports on care for parents who prefer verbal communication. The childminder monitors children's progress very closely and takes swift action to share supportive strategies with parents to provide consistency for children, such as for speech development needs. She recognises the need to extend information sharing about children's progress with teachers, to support further continuity in their move to school.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are very confident and deeply engaged as they busily explore their own interests. Even the youngest children easily make choices in their play. For example, they use picture labels on boxes extremely successfully to access toys independently. Children behave extremely well. They learn to be considerate to others. For example, they listen and respond extremely well when the childminder and her assistant teach them the words and actions to use to ask other children to make space for them at story time.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY427147 Local authority Gloucestershire Inspection number 1094824 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 0 - 4 Total number of places 12 Number of children on roll 14

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2011. She lives in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. The childminder operates on Monday to Thursday from 8am to 5.30pm, and on Friday from 9.30am to 5.30pm, all year round. She sometimes works with an assistant.

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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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