Childminder EY418092

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 21 March 2018 15 December 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 a highly skilful teacher. She very successfully helps children to make predications, test their ideas and learn through exploration and discovery. She provides outstanding support, knowing exactly when to let children work out problems for themselves and when to move their learning on.  Children have extremely secure emotional attachments to the childminder and excellent relationships with each other. The childminder meets their physical and emotional needs exceptionally well. Children are highly successful, confident and independent learners.  All children make rapid progress from their starting points. The childminder has an extensive knowledge of children's development and uses her constant observations, highly successfully, to know how to help them excel. She provides enriching learning experiences and children relish their time with her.  The childminder gives the highest priority to developing children's understanding of a

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This provision is outstanding

healthy lifestyle. Children benefit greatly from daily outdoor experiences and exercise and, with the childminder, grow their own produce from seed, and nurture it for cooking and eating.  Through extensive training and professional development, the childminder continues to enhance her knowledge and skills. For example, she has provided more excellent open- ended resources to extend children's ideas outdoors.

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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 extending the already excellent environment to enhance children's curiosity even more when indoors.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed activities and the quality of teaching indoors and outdoors.  The inspector spoke with the childminder and carried out a joint observation.  The inspector checked safeguarding information and the safety of the premises.  The inspector took account of the childminder's self-evaluation, parent and child surveys and letters from parents for the inspector.  The inspector sampled documentation, including policies and procedures, and children's development records.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder ensures children's safety is paramount. She has an excellent understanding of the possible signs that a child is at risk of harm and the procedures to follow to protect them. She carries out highly successful risk assessments to ensure she keeps children safe as they learn. The childminder is passionate about providing outstanding outcomes for children. She continually monitors their development and works extremely well with parents and other providers to help children catch up very quickly, where necessary. The childminder meets with them to have highly effective discussions on how they will prepare children for school. Through meticulous self- evaluation, including parents and children's feedback, the childminder is extending her resources, to enhance children's curiosity even further when indoors.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder provides highly rich learning experiences from children's interests, so that they are very excited to take part. For example, she helped older toddlers playing with trains to find out that the magnets could join, or push, the trains apart depending on which way around they had them. She challenged them further to see if pushing or pulling the trains was easiest and if the magnets were strong enough to get a train up a slope. The childminder very skilfully gives children time to explore resources from adult-led activities and use them in their own way. For instance, the youngest children concentrated on getting a toy chick back into the egg it came from, developing their physical skills and understanding of space extremely well. The childminder extends children's learning exceptionally well. For instance, when a battery-operated toy stopped working, she helped older children to choose a screwdriver and open the case. They selected the batteries by

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

their size and commented on why others would not fit.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Parents confirm that their children settled with the childminder extremely quickly because she did everything she could to aid their transition very smoothly. Young children explore very confidently and happily return to the childminder for cuddles, knowing they will receive a highly sensitive response. The childminder provides young children with excellent support to learn to manage their feelings. Children gain an impressive knowledge of keeping safe, such as about road safety, and know that chestnut cases have prickles. The childminder provides outstanding support for children to recognise each other's strengths and value their own. She encourages older children very well to make decisions and negotiate as a group, knowing their views are important.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children develop impressive skills that prepare them extremely well for their next stage of learning and school. They are highly enthusiastic and have extremely inquisitive minds. Young children learn extremely well from the older ones, copying what they do and trying to repeat their words. Children are excellent communicators, with a thirst for knowledge. Older children develop their mathematical and literacy skills through highly exciting activities, such as writing in the snow and recognising shapes in the environment.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY418092 Local authority Wiltshire Inspection number 1131038 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 1 - 8 Total number of places 5 Number of children on roll 7

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 15 December 2015

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2010 and lives in Devizes, Wiltshire. She provides care Monday to Thursday, including before and after school, for 48 weeks a year. The childminder holds an early years qualification at level 3. She receives funding to provide 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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Telephone number

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