Childminder in Cambridgeshire

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 10 July 2018 5 October 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 well-qualified childminder evaluates her practice extremely well. She listens to children, parents and other professionals, adapting and developing their ideas. The childminder is very successful in delivering and developing exceptional practice.  All groups of children make excellent progress from their starting points. The experienced childminder meticulously plans and tailors activities around the individual learning needs of each child. Children thoroughly enjoy having time to play, explore and think. They offer their ideas confidently and are very keen to find out how things work.  Parent partnership is well established. The childminder has developed successful processes to share information with them. This enables parents to be very actively involved in their children's ongoing learning and development. Parents speak highly of the childminder's excellent attention to detail and service.

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This provision is outstanding

 The childminder provides plenty of descriptive praise. This helps children to understand their achievements and take pride in what they can do. Children are very happy and form strong bonds with the childminder. Their behaviour is excellent. They show careful consideration for each other as they follow the excellent role model of the childminder.

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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 explore innovative creative opportunities and monitor the impact that this has on children's enjoyment and learning.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities and assessed the impact this has on children's learning.  The inspector evaluated a joint observation with the childminder.  The inspector spoke with children at appropriate times during the inspection.  The inspector looked at relevant documentation, including evidence of the suitability of all persons living in the household. The inspector discussed with the childminder how she reflects on her practice.  The inspector took account of the views of parents through written feedback they sent to the inspector.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder's attention to detail is superb. She ensures her excellent practice and in-depth knowledge remains up to date. The childminder has a secure understanding of how to safeguard children. She knows, very clearly, how to report child protection concerns in order to safely promote the well-being of children in her care. The vigilant childminder checks the environment is safe and secure. This enables children to play and learn in well-organised and conducive learning environments. The childminder regularly attends training and liaises with colleagues and other early years professionals. She uses the new knowledge and skills gained to further enhance children's learning and development.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder uses excellent teaching methods to effectively support all children's communication and language development. She very skilfully questions children, helping them to think about and share their ideas. The childminder carefully interprets young children's babble. Her response elicits their excitement at being understood. Older children talk confidently, using well-constructed sentences. The childminder values all children's comments and uses them to further extend their conversational skills. The childminder identifies that she can enrich opportunities to inspire children even more to explore and express their talent, flair and creativity. She monitors children's progress accurately and uses their starting points to identify and narrow any gaps in learning. Children are inquisitive. They use all of their senses as they splash in the water tray and draw on their existing knowledge to identify a wide range of plastic sea creatures.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children develop very valuable social skills as they participate in exceptionally well organised and executed community events. They meet an extremely wide range of people from different walks of life. This helps them to learn and develop a first-hand understanding of their community and the wider world around them. The childminder creates an extremely warm, homely and very stimulating environment inside and outside. She provides exceptional, age-appropriate resources that motivate and engage children to learn. The childminder is very attentive, quickly understanding each child's interests and personalities. She teaches children about safety and risks in their surroundings. Older children are quick to adopt these ideas and use them to help support their younger peers to stay safe.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are very active and absorbed in learning. They solve simple problems, such as how to transport water from their play sink to various containers. They thoroughly enjoy matching games, identifying environmental objects to cards that include shapes, colours and objects. Older children learn to count as they blow bubbles. Younger children begin to mimic new words. As they watch bubbles float into the air, they point saying 'cubbles',

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY398895 Local authority Cambridgeshire Inspection number 1109704 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 1 - 3 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 6

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 5 October 2015

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2009. She operates all year round from 7.15am to 6pm, Monday to Thursday, except for bank holidays and family holidays. The childminder provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.

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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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