Childminder in East Sussex

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 20 April 2018 10 July 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's home is extremely welcoming and inviting. She provides highly stimulating learning experiences, inside and outside, that take full account of the children's current interests and skills. The childminder and children become entirely engrossed in exciting play as she shares her passion for supporting children's learning.  Children are extremely confident, happy and secure in this delightful setting. They form excellent bonds with the childminder, who is highly attentive and nurturing. She has a precise knowledge of children's individual differences and sensitively supports their confidence, high self-esteem and growing independence.  The very experienced childminder has an excellent understanding of how children learn and develop. She uses her extensive knowledge to make accurate assessments of each child's ability and meticulously support their next steps in learning.  Partnership working with parents and other professionals is exemplary and makes a

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This provision is outstanding

significant contribution to maintaining children's outstanding outcomes. Children, including those who have special educational needs (SEN) and/or disabilities, make rapid, sustained progress from their individual starting points.  The childminder provides an exceptional range of opportunities for children to explore the wider world and maintain their physical well-being. For example, they enjoy an exciting outing to a museum to explore the extraordinary life story of planet Earth and visit an adventure playpark.

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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 further ways to monitor the progress made by different groups of children to help ensure that all children continue to make outstanding progress.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching and learning inside and outside.  The inspector spoke to two parents and read several parents' testimonials. She took account of parents' views.  The inspector played with the children and spoke to them about their experiences.  The inspector completed a joint observation of an activity with the childminder and discussed the children's learning to help assess her knowledge.  The inspector spoke with the childminder and sampled documentation, including the safeguarding policy and procedures.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The childminder makes full use of her local authority review and parents' views in her comprehensive self-evaluation. She consistently refines her practice to follow new legislation and maintain the highest-quality provision. For example, using her signing for babies training, she supports children's speech development extremely effectively. The childminder monitors children's progress thoroughly to identify and address differences in learning. She has plans to work with other childminders to look further at the different progress made by groups of children, such as boys and girls. The childminder shares extensive information with parents about children's ongoing progress; including a highly informative and beautifully presented learning journal. Parents add comments to these journals and children benefit greatly from the consistency in care and learning. Safeguarding is effective. The childminder uses highly effective procedures to keep

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder is highly skilled in extending children's learning and development. She carefully tunes into their play and uses any spontaneous opportunity extremely well to add challenge. For example, children ask to make their own puppets. The childminder finds resources and supports their drawing, cutting skills and conversation as they create imaginative stick puppets. The childminder promotes children's literacy, listening and talking exceptionally well. For example, she consistently extends their language through extremely expressive story reading, asking questions to encourage their thinking as they join in excitedly. She introduces new words and gives children time to express themselves. Children are excellent communicators and rapidly develop their skills.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children demonstrate excellent knowledge of how to keep themselves safe and healthy. For example, they carefully negotiate toy buggies around the furniture and down the steps outside. They know that they need sun hats and sun cream before they can go out in the sun. Children delight in being outside and use the area extremely well to develop their learning and skills. They fill different sized bottles in the water trays, experimenting to see how they can make them stand up. When children get wet, the childminder encourages them to think about waterproof clothes and why they cannot wear wellington boots in the hot sun. They decide for themselves that bare feet are best on a hot day.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children show great curiosity and maintain their interest extremely well. They develop an extensive range of skills they need for their eventual move to school. They have excellent social skills and enjoy being part of a group. They play extremely well together and follow the good routines and clear expectations. For example, they share and take turns, such as by giving each other rides in the toy trailer. Children count exceptionally well for their age. Older children write their names, and identify and match letters to their sounds.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 108934 Local authority East Sussex Inspection number 1126549 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 1 - 4 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 6

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 10 July 2015

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 1996. She lives in Lewes, East Sussex. The childminder offers care Monday to Friday from 8am to 4pm all year, excluding family holidays. She holds a relevant childcare qualification at level 3.

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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

procedures set out in the guidance ‘Complaints procedure: raising concerns and making complaints about Ofsted’, which is available from Ofsted’s website: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ofsted. If you would like Ofsted to send you a copy of the guidance, please telephone 0300 123 4234, or email enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk. achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. It regulates and inspects childcare and children's social care, and inspects the Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service (Cafcass), schools, colleges, initial teacher training, work-based learning and skills training, adult and community learning, and education and training in prisons and other secure establishments. It assesses council children’s services, and inspects services for looked after children, safeguarding and child protection.

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Telephone number

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Telephone number

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Telephone number

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