Champion, Hazel

Inspection date 22 May 2019 Previous inspection date 23 July 2015

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Previous inspection: Good 2 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 Outstanding 1

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This provision is outstanding

n The childminder reflects on and evaluates her practice extremely well. For example, to build further on the excellent partnerships with parents, she provides parents with newsletters and offers home visits. This helps parents to be highly involved in their child's learning and helps children settle extremely quickly into the setting. n The childminder is exceptionally warm and caring in her approach and an excellent role model for the children. She provides a highly stimulating and welcoming environment, where children are exceptionally happy and very emotionally secure. n The childminder engages children highly successfully in exciting and challenging activities indoors and outdoors. For example, children use an exceptionally wide vocabulary as they talk about and describe different fruit. All children make excellent progress in their learning. n Children's behaviour is exemplary. The childminder is exceptionally skilful and

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This provision is outstanding

implements highly effective behaviour management strategies to give children an excellent understanding of boundaries. Children learn to be extremely kind to one another from the childminder's expert teaching. n The childminder knows the children exceptionally well. She focuses her planning with the greatest precision to give each child the very best opportunity to reach their next steps in learning and prepares them extremely well for school.

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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 continue to develop the excellent partnership working with all settings that children attend, to work even more closely to support children's learning and development.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

n The inspector observed the quality of teaching and the impact this has on children's learning. n The inspector sampled a range of documentation, including children's records and the childminder's policies. n The inspector and childminder observed children during activities and completed a follow-up discussion about children's learning and progress. n The inspector spoke to the childminder and children at appropriate times during the inspection. n The inspector took account of parents' views from their written comments.

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder demonstrates an expert knowledge of child protection issues and is extremely clear on what to do should she have a concern about a child's welfare. She is thoroughly committed to her role in protecting children from harm. The childminder is extremely passionate about her professional development, to improve her excellent knowledge and teaching skills even further. For example, after recent training, she is introducing new concepts and names to encourage children's excellent communication and language skills. She has taken ideas from 'in the moment' planning, to extend children's learning exceptionally well, through using children's interests. She monitors their progress precisely. Partnership working with some providers is outstanding. The childminder is already considering how she can develop these partnerships further to work even more closely with all providers.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder is highly skilled at questioning in an extremely positive way to support children to think critically and engage in purposeful play. For example, she expertly introduced new words and phrases as children explored shape and size. Children use words such as 'similar' and 'the same' as they enthusiastically explore a wide variety of different buttons. They use descriptive words, such as 'scratchy', and demonstrate a highly creative imagination as they thread beads and experiment with loud and quiet noises. The childminder effortlessly captures children's interests and extends their learning exceptionally well. For example, she engages them in lively conversations about the similarities and differences between themselves and others.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The childminder ensures that children have exceptionally rich and varied opportunities to support their superb physical development. Children benefit greatly from being outdoors. They excitedly experiment with items in the water to see if they float or sink. They ride in toy cars, pretend to go shopping and pretend to cook in the kitchen outside. They have an excellent understanding of healthy lifestyles and demonstrate they feel exceptionally safe and secure in the childminder's care. The childminder uses praise and encouragement extremely effectively to give children exceptionally high levels of confidence and self-esteem.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are highly motivated to learn. Children of all ages confidently count to 10 and beyond. They expertly make simple calculations and use mathematical language highly successfully in their play. Children use a vast vocabulary and very skilfully link sounds to letters. Their kindness to one another is inspirational as they play exceptionally harmoniously together, taking turns and sharing resources effortlessly.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 132795 Local authority Bath and North East Somerset Council Inspection number 10061471 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 2 - 8 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 27 Date of previous inspection 23 July 2015

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Registers

The childminder registered in 1999. She lives in Peasedown St John, near Bath. The childminder provides care from Monday to Friday, for most of the year.

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Registers

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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