Childminder in Gloucestershire

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 18 May 2018 24 November 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 quality of teaching is consistently good and on occasions excellent, such as the opportunities children have to learn about the natural world.  The childminder and her assistants have secure knowledge of how children learn and help children to make good progress from their starting points. They place a strong focus on increasing children's communication and language skills during their interactions with children.  The childminder and her assistants develop close relationships with children. They place a clear priority on promoting children's emotional well-being, confidence and self-help skills.  The childminder provides an inclusive environment and manages the mixed-age range well to ensure all children receive good attention and care.  Parents report high levels of satisfaction about the care and education their children receive. There are effective systems in place to keep them up to date about their

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This provision is good

children's learning and how they can continue children's learning at home.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 The childminder and her assistants do not use very precisely the information gained from children's assessments to help to plan highly challenging activities.  The childminder does not consistently provide a rich range of activities to extend children's learning even further in some aspects of their mathematics and literacy development.

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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

 use the children's assessment information more precisely to help to plan highly challenging activities, to help children make the best possible progress  provide a rich range of activities to engage children's learning even further in exploring concepts, such as rhyming, rhythm, quantities and calculation.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact this has on children's learning.  The inspector completed a joint evaluation of an activity with the childminder.  The inspector held a number of discussions with the childminder and one of her assistants. She looked at relevant documentation and evidence of the suitability of persons living and working on the premises.  The inspector took account of the views of parents through written feedback provided.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

The childminder provides good guidance and coaching to the assistants to ensure the quality of teaching is good and improving. The assistants benefit from supervision and training opportunities to help to increase their skills and knowledge. Together they use self-evaluation, including a quality improvement scheme, to help to monitor practice and identify further areas for development. The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. The childminder and her assistants have a good understanding of child protection issues and the procedure to follow if they have a concern. The home is clean and suitable, and they carry out daily checks to ensure areas are safe for children to use.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

The childminder and her assistants make good use of books and visual aids to capture children's attention and imagination. For example, children are quickly motivated to answer questions and join in with parts of the story due to the creative range of resources provided. The childminder uses this as a good opportunity for children to count, name the fruits and recognise colours. The childminder provides excellent first-hand experiences to help children to learn about the world. For example, children observe and help care for the rabbits, chickens, cows, sheep and alpacas. They observe the life cycle of animals, such as duck eggs in an incubator and caterpillars changing to butterflies. Activities have a clear learning intention and the childminder and her assistants place a strong focus on introducing new words, concepts and ideas.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

The childminder provides a stimulating outdoor environment. She encourages children to use the challenging physical play equipment and helps children to take controlled risk under supervision, to help to increase their confidence. The childminder and her assistants teach children about keeping safe, such as teaching them about sun, road and fire safety. They know children well and meet their dietary and medical needs well. They provide healthy and nutritious meals, and children learn fresh produce is good for them. They help children to learn right from wrong and about the codes of behaviour in place. Children learn to respect each other's differences and learn about the wider community.

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Outcomes for children are good

All children, including those receiving additional funding, make good progress in preparation for school. Children enjoy learning because activities are made enjoyable. For example, children play with ice in the water and use words, such as 'heavy' and 'more', to describe what they see and feel. Children show a real fascination with the numerous animals. For example, children collect the fresh eggs and easily count them, and describe how they look and feel. Children enjoy making marks and drawing indoors and outdoors. Children thoroughly enjoy playing their imaginary games and involving the childminder and her assistants as they adopt roles and take the lead. Children are creative and use a good range of arts and crafts activities to make their creations.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 511018 Local authority Gloucestershire Inspection number 1128362 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 0 - 8 Total number of places 9 Number of children on roll 22

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 24 November 2015

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 1994. She lives in Twyning near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire. She operates all year round, with the exception of bank holidays and family holidays, from 7.30am until 6.30pm. The childminder works with two assistants. She holds an early years qualification at level 5 and one of the assistants holds a 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

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Telephone number

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Telephone number

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Telephone number

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