Childminder EY369844

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 10 July 2018 19 July 2017

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This inspection: Good 2

Previous inspection: Requires Improvement

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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 childminder has addressed weaknesses identified at her last inspection well and now promotes good-quality outcomes for children. Her improved self-evaluation helps her identify areas for development and the positive impact that changes she makes have on children's learning. She maintains all required records appropriately.  Children make good progress, relative to their starting points. The childminder has changed her systems of planning activities to be more specific to individual children's next steps in learning. She identifies opportunities to develop children's speech and language and extends their vocabulary well.  Children's self-esteem is very good. They are happy and well behaved. Their confident interactions with the childminder and each other show they feel emotionally secure in the setting. The childminder is affectionate and nurturing.  The childminder works well in partnership with other early years settings children

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This provision is good

attend. Information about children's learning is shared well.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 The childminder receives little information from parents about their children's learning achievements at home. However, she does gain detailed information about children's changing care needs, particularly for babies.  Activities to teach older children how to use technology for different purposes do not provide enough challenge to extend their learning effectively.

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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

 encourage parents to share their children's achievements at home, to help inform the assessment and planning process  provide more challenge for older children as they learn to use technology.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the childminder and children engaged in learning activities, indoors and outside.  The inspector read written feedback from parents and talked to children.  The inspector talked to the childminder about her systems to monitor children's progress and plan for future learning.  The inspector reviewed required records, including safeguarding policies and procedures, and talked to the childminder about how she implements these.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

The childminder makes good use of professional networks and online resources to develop her skills. She uses her self-evaluation and her assessments of children to highlight where improvements have the most impact on their learning. For example, she identified that, although children make good progress in early mathematics, activities promoting this area lacked excitement. She researched online to develop her knowledge and to gain fresh ideas for activities. For instance, introducing experiments, such as exploring what happens when ice melts, has improved children's understanding of volume and measurement even further. Safeguarding is effective. The childminder has a good understanding of local safeguarding procedures. She knows what action to take if she has any concerns, to help protect children from harm.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

The childminder uses her good knowledge of children's interests to plan activities that, overall, challenge them well. For example, while younger children enjoyed using diggers and trucks to move sand, the childminder encouraged their use of positional language, such as 'over', 'under', 'here' and 'there'. The childminder promotes children's literacy well. For example, older children used magnetic letters to make simple words. The childminder extended this well by partly forming words and encouraging children to use their very good knowledge of letters and how they sound to identify which were missing. The childminder teaches children well about the natural world. For example, children talked about feeding the ducks and giving them 'duck food' because bread is bad for them.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Children of different ages play very well together. For example, older children showed the younger ones how to use the toy fishing rod to hook the numbered fish and ducks so they could join in too. Children develop good health awareness, which they demonstrate during role play. For example, they used play foods to make dinner, talking about which items are healthy and discarding those that are not. Children enjoy being active and spending time outside. They are careful to keep their hats on in the sun and understand they need to have sun cream re-applied so they do not burn.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children develop good skills that prepare them well for the next stage in their learning, including going to school. For example, young children confidently use small spoons and tweezers to move objects, developing the fine-motor skills they need for writing later on. Older children benefit particularly well from regular opportunities to develop their social skills in larger groups, which helps to increase their confidence and prepare them for school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY369844 Local authority Devon Inspection number 1110368 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 1 - 10 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 5

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 19 July 2017

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2008. She lives in Topsham near Exeter. The childminder offers care on Monday to Thursday from 8am to 5.30pm, all year round. She has links with a local primary school.

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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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