Childminder in Gloucestershire

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 17 April 2018 3 December 2015

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This inspection: Good 2

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Good 2

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This inspection: Good 2

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 2

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This inspection: Good 2

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 2

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This provision is good

 The childminder uses her observations and assessment of children's learning to plan activities that challenge them successfully. She promotes individual children's learning effectively while she supports their play. Children make good progress in their learning.  Children are happy and settled in the childminder's care. She agrees a gradual settling- in procedure with parents to help children feel emotionally secure from the outset of care. Relationships between the childminder and children are very good.  The childminder promotes children's communication and language development well. She interprets babies' wants and needs effectively as they communicate through gestures and expressions, while also promoting their emerging speaking skills well.  Children make good progress in their physical development. The childminder provides a range of resources that helps children to develop good handling skills.

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This provision is good

 The childminder reviews her provision in order to improve. She keeps her early years knowledge up to date, for example, through training and proactive research.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 The childminder has not fully considered ways of raising children's awareness of similarities and differences, for example, with regard to different families, communities and traditions.  The childminder does not fully support children in exploring and investigating different textures and materials and in making marks in different ways.

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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

 extend children's learning about similarities and differences between themselves and others, and about families, traditions and communities beyond their own experience  increase support for children to explore and investigate different textures and materials, and make marks in different ways.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed activities while children played in the indoor play area. She discussed teaching methods with the childminder.  The inspector looked at evidence of the childminder's training and checked evidence of the suitability of adults living in the household.  The inspector looked at a selection of children's assessment records, policies and procedures, and a range of other documentation.  The inspector spoke to the childminder and children at appropriate times throughout the inspection.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. The childminder is aware of the local safeguarding procedures and her responsibilities to protect children from abuse and neglect. She accesses training and ensures that her safeguarding knowledge is current. The childminder is aware of the duty to prevent children from being drawn into situations that may put them at risk of significant of harm. She assesses and minimises risks in her home and garden successfully. The childminder reviews her provision and identifies strengths and areas where she could make improvements. She says that her current priority is to develop areas in her garden to support children's learning about the natural world.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

The childminder challenges children effectively to reach the next stage in their development. She supports children well to acquire skills and a capacity to learn. Children communicate with her confidently. Young children are making good progress as they begin to use simple sentences. Children practise their good handling skills while they play with resources, such as play dough, jigsaw puzzles and construction toys. Some dough cutters are in the shape of animals and the childminder challenges young children to name them and mimic the sounds that they make. Young children are able to operate toys with buttons and simple mechanisms. The childminder encourages children's interest in books and they make choices in accordance with their favourite characters. The childminder supports young children's early mathematical development well. For example, she encourages them to count and name simple shapes and colours while she supports their

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

The childminder develops close bonds with the children in her care. She adopts a positive approach to managing behaviour, to help foster children's self-confidence and self-esteem. The childminder promotes children's good health well. They are physically active. The childminder ensures the babies have opportunities to pull themselves up to standing as they learn to walk. Parents provide healthy food. Children develop an understanding of how to keep themselves safe. For example, the childminder teaches them how to walk safely on the pavement and how to cross roads safely.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children develop good skills that help them to be ready for the move on to pre-school and school. They are prepared well emotionally and socially for moving on. For example, they interact with other children and adults at groups, such as singing and rhyming sessions held at the local library. Children spontaneously count out objects while they play. They are developing good control with writing tools, such as felt-tipped pens. Children learn good personal hygiene practices.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY474344 Local authority Gloucestershire Inspection number 1132127 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 6 Number of children on roll 9

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 3 December 2015

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2014. She lives in Winchcombe, near Cheltenham. She operates all year round from 7.30am to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday, except for bank holidays and family holidays.

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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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