Childminder EY335514

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 22 May 2018 20 January 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 quality of teaching is exemplary. The childminder skilfully extends children's learning to the highest levels. She consistently encourages them to think deeply and solve problems. Children delight in working things out for themselves and make rapid progress in their learning from their starting points.  The childminder builds extremely effective relationships with parents. She continuously discusses children's care, interests and development, and supports parents with inspiring ideas on how they can continue their children's learning at home. Parents are exceptionally happy with the progress their children make.  Children behave extremely well, and play and learn exceedingly happily together. The childminder sets clear boundaries and takes every opportunity to praise positive behaviour. Children have exceptionally high self-esteem and emotional well-being.  The childminder is meticulous in evaluating the overall quality of her service to help

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This provision is outstanding

bring about continuous improvements. She constantly reviews her own practice and the learning opportunities for every child to help provide individually tailored support.  Children have excellent opportunities to take part in learning experiences in the local community. The childminder takes great care to choose activities that intricately meet the individual interests of each child. For example, she takes children to specialised singing sessions to support and extend their early language 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

 continue to extend the partnerships with other settings that children attend, to enhance information sharing even further.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed children and the childminder playing together.  The inspector viewed a sample of documentation, including safeguarding policies and procedures, and children's records.  The inspector and childminder discussed the play activities and children's learning during the inspection, and undertook a joint observation of children's play.  The inspector observed the quality of teaching and the impact this has on children's learning.  The inspector sampled written feedback from parents about the childminder's service and discussed with the childminder how she evaluates her provision to bring about improvements.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The highly qualified and extremely ambitious childminder works tirelessly to raise the quality of her provision to an outstanding level. She continually improves her childcare knowledge and introduces inspiring new ideas, such as through further training, extensive research and excellent partnerships with other childminders. For instance, she recently incorporated wedding pictures from children's parents, as well as her own, when looking at the royal wedding to help broaden children's experiences. Through highly reflective self- evaluation, the childminder has identified that she would like to further develop her already thorough information sharing with other settings that children attend. Safeguarding is effective. The childminder has an excellent, up-to-date knowledge of how to protect children and vigilantly follows her extremely detailed procedures.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder has an exceptional understanding of each child's development and immediately identifies and addresses any gaps in their learning. She makes expert use of her extremely detailed observations and assessments to help her plan inspiring and challenging activities. For example, as two-year-old children delight in exploring ride-on cars, the childminder introduces toy petrol pumps and discusses why cars need fuel. She then skilfully extends their learning even further. For example, she challenges children to move 'forward', 'backward', 'left' and 'right' as they manoeuvre the cars on challenging surfaces, such as gravel and artificial grass. The childminder supports children's language development superbly well and sensitively introduces a diverse range of new words, such as 'magpie', as they excitedly observe birds in the garden.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The childminder is incredibly sensitive to children's individual needs and builds superb relationships with them. Children behave impeccably and are extremely respectful and considerate of others, for instance, when thoughtfully pouring each other drinks outdoors when they make their own. Children make exceptionally strong friendships and delight in including each other in their play. They are extremely physically active and thoroughly enjoy inspiring opportunities for outdoor play and exercise, such as on exciting trips into the local community and to explore nature.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Two-year-old children show extremely high levels of motivation in their learning. They are exceptionally confident, independent and excited to try new things. For example, they eagerly learn how to launch foam rocket toys and show excellent perseverance as they try to fly them further across the garden each time. Children delight in expressing themselves and sharing ideas. They communicate extremely well for their age and excitedly discuss their recent experiences, home lives and interests with great pride. Children rapidly gain the skills needed for their next stages in learning and for school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY335514 Local authority West Sussex Inspection number 1085603 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 2 - 7 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 3

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 20 January 2015

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2006 and lives in Bognor Regis. She provides care between 7am and 6pm on Tuesday to Thursday, all year round. The childminder holds a qualification at level 6 and provides funded educational places 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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