Childminder in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Childminder report 91 Western Avenue, Bournemouth BH10 6HG

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Inspection date 21 September 2018 Previous inspection date Not applicable

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Previous inspection: Not applicable Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 1 Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1 Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1 Outcomes for children Not Applicable

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The provision is outstanding

n The childminder is extremely well organised and demonstrates a highly passionate drive to improve the provision continually. She has high expectations of what children can achieve and plans very successfully for their future development. n Children benefit from a highly stimulating indoor and outdoor environment that is rich, varied and inviting. Their views are actively sought as part of evaluating the provision. The extensive, well-planned range of extremely enjoyable activities and experiences sustains children's interests and keeps them engaged. This helps children to acquire the skills, abilities and attitudes quickly that prepare them very well for future learning. n The childminder is an excellent role model and very skilfully supports children during play to become extremely independent. She is very enthusiastic and actively joins in with children's play, which makes a significant difference to children's enjoyment of the

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The provision is outstanding

setting. n The childminder works extremely closely with parents and plays a very important part in the life of individual families. Children's move into the childminder's care is supported extremely sensitively. This contributes significantly to providing security and stability for children and reassurance for parents. n The childminder provides a highly effective link between parents and the local school. Together with her assistants, she is astute in identifying key information about children's needs and development, which they share with both parties.

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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

n make better use of opportunities to support children's understanding of healthy food choices.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

Inspection activities n The inspector took account of the views of parents through discussion. n The inspector spoke to the childminder and children at appropriate times. n The inspector sampled a range of documentation, including assessment records and planning, policies and procedures, and feedback from children and the local authority advisers. n The inspector completed a joint observation with the childminder. n The inspector observed the childminder interacting with the children.

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder has an excellent, up-to-date knowledge of how to protect children and vigilantly follows her extremely detailed referral procedures should she have concerns about the health or welfare of a child. The childminder quickly identifies and completes training courses that inform her practice and enhance her service. Recent training has helped explore the reasons why children may behave inappropriately and how it is linked to a particular stage of their development. The childminder has established a rigorous induction and supervision plan for her assistants that helps to ensure that they are suitable to work with children. She frequently monitors her assistants' performance to enhance and sustain exceptional teaching practice. The childminder involves her assistants in evaluating the effectiveness of what they offer to children and their families. They set themselves challenging goals and continually strive

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is outstanding

to achieve ever higher levels of expert professional care and learning. For example, they have re-evaluated and plan to re-model the outdoor environment so that children can enjoy a wide range of exciting activities in a safer and more-spacious area.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Children display extremely high levels of concentration. Younger children are very creative and make birthday cards for their friends. They pay particular attention to the letters they need to spell 'happy birthday'. This builds on children's excellent literacy skills that they learn at school. Each child has a book which contains their work, observations made by the childminder, and photographs of activities in which the child has participated. The childminder makes excellent use of this information to assess and meticulously plan for children's individual learning needs. She intuitively adapts activities, the level of support she offers and the language she uses, to meet children's individual stage of development. For example, she uses highly effective questioning to help older children with their mathematics homework. The childminder asks, 'How can you arrange large numbers so that they are easier to divide?' Children respond, 'By breaking it down

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

into units.' She consistently uses excellent teaching skills to develop children's ideas and extend their learning. For example, at dinner time, she encourages children to discuss if the jelly they have for dessert is a liquid or a solid, and their different properties.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children are extremely well mannered and demonstrate an exceptionally caring attitude towards others. Older children are superb role models for younger children. They ensure that they have the right cutlery at dinner time, and even offer to cut up their food for them. Children exhibit excellent physical skills. For example, they very skilfully hop on one foot, negotiating the available space, and attempt to do the splits. The childminder provides children with excellent meaningful ways to learn about the wider community and takes great care to choose activities that intricately meet the individual interests of each child. For example, after children showed great interest in the local police, she arranged their visit to meet children and help them further gain a superb knowledge of the people who help us. Children use the environment highly effectively to stimulate and develop their imaginations. For example, they recall their playtime experiences as they

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

use a wide range of animal puppets, pretending they are back at school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY537662 Local authority Bournemouth Inspection number 10076908 Type of provision Childminder

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Registers

Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Day care type Childminder Age range of children 4 - 16 Total number of places 11 Number of children on roll 28 Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Registers

The childminder registered in 2016. She lives in Bournemouth, Dorset. The childminder is available to care for children Monday to Friday from 7am to 9am and 3pm to 6pm, term time only. She employs four assistants. The childminder has a qualification at level 3.

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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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