Childminder EY348993

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 19 June 2018 16 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

 Children are extremely confident, enthusiastic and have fun as they learn. They cooperate exceptionally well with others during play, and develop valuable skills needed for moving on to pre-school and school.  The childminder is passionate and dedicated in her role. She takes great care to ensure that she effectively implements a wide range of documents, policies and procedures. She promotes children's safety, welfare and learning to a very high level.  Partnerships with parents and other professionals involved in children's care are exceedingly effective. They share valuable information about what children can do and plan for their next steps in learning.  The childminder successfully helps children to gain strong communication and language skills. For example, she consistently adds new words into conversations to extend their vocabulary and encourages them to use language through songs and stories.

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This provision is outstanding

 Children build exceptionally strong relationships with the childminder. They thrive in the highly stimulating environment and show high levels of emotional well-being.

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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 pursue a range of options to enhance professional knowledge to help maintain the already outstanding practice.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the interaction between the childminder and the children and considered the impact this has on their learning.  The inspector completed a joint evaluation of an activity with the childminder.  The inspector discussed with the childminder how she keeps the children in her care safe.  The inspector viewed documents, including the childminder's paediatric first-aid certificate and public liability insurance.  The inspector viewed the areas of the home used by children.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder continually updates her knowledge of safeguarding matters. She knows what to do should she have a concern about the welfare of a child. The childminder has an excellent knowledge of how to protect children's welfare and successfully helps them to have a good understanding of how to keep themselves safe. For example, children wear high-visibility jackets when on outings and complete themes to help them to understand about road safety. The childminder works exceptionally well with her assistant, and provides regular feedback and guides them in ways that they can improve. Self-evaluation is extremely effective, and the childminder regularly considers how to improve the service for children. Since her last inspection, she has completed relevant qualifications to level 3. The childminder continues to pursue a range of options to enhance her professional knowledge even further.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder uses comprehensive observations and assessments of children's learning to accurately identify their interests and plan highly purposeful activities. For example, she uses children's interest in butterflies to teach them about life cycles, including nurturing young caterpillars and watching them develop into chrysalis and then butterflies. She interacts exceedingly well with children and uses every available opportunity to support them to progress further. For instance, as children play with guttering and balls, she helps them to count and use numbers and understand positional language, such as 'up', 'down', 'high' and 'low'. She continuously encourages children to develop their early literacy skills, such as by providing them with an abundance of opportunities to make marks, listen to and join in with rhymes and read books.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The childminder is an excellent role model and has a consistently warm, caring approach. She offers children gentle guidance and praise. Children learn to behave exceptionally well and to treat others with respect. She is highly successful in helping children to understand the importance of leading a healthy lifestyle. For example, children grow and harvest their own vegetables. They read books about where vegetables come from to help them to understand the origins of their food. Children have wide-ranging opportunities to be physically active. For instance, they play in the childminder's well-resourced garden, visit local parks and woodlands, build dens, and use large logs and boulders for climbing.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children make excellent progress from their starting points. Toddlers enthusiastically use apparatus such as balancing beams with support from the childminder. Pre-school children learn to recognise their own names and numbers and have lots of opportunities to record these in a variety of ways, such as in books, on clipboards and on chalkboards.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY348993 Local authority Wokingham Inspection number 1129823 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 6 Number of children on roll 11

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 16 December 2015

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2007 and lives in Reading, Berkshire. She operates her service between Monday and Friday from 7am to 6.30pm, for most of the year. The childminder works with a part-time assistant.

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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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