Childminder in Surrey

Inspection date 19 June 2019 Previous inspection date 13 July 2016

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This inspection: Good 2

Previous inspection: Good 2 Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 2 Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 2 Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 2 Outcomes for children Good 2

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This provision is good

n The childminder provides a welcoming and stimulating home environment for children. Play and learning resources are of high quality. The childminder plans exciting and interesting activities that help children to learn and understand about the natural world and people and communities. Children make good progress. n The childminder engages children in interesting conversations and repeats words to model vocabulary. However, her knowledge of the stages of speech development is not yet high enough to ensure that emerging gaps in progress are very promptly identified and targeted. n The childminder vigilantly monitors and supports children's specific health and well- being needs in close partnership with parents. Children are very happy and settled in her care. They form strong emotional attachments with her and each other. Behaviour between toddlers is particularly exemplary. n The childminder completes regular observations and assessments of children. However,

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This provision is good

these are not consistently precise enough to identify the best possible plan for supporting and tracking their progress. This also means that parents are not as well informed about children's learning needs as they are about their well-being. n The childminder makes good use of training opportunities to improve her knowledge, such as for understanding about traits relating to autism spectrum disorder and about changes to local safeguarding procedures.

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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 develop higher knowledge and understanding of the development of speech, so that emerging gaps in children's progress are more promptly identified and specifically targeted n make observations and assessments more precise and use these to identify clear plans for supporting children's progress in all relevant areas of learning, ensuring parents and any other early years providers are fully involved in this.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

n The inspector observed the childminder's interaction with children during activities indoors and outdoors. She looked at the childminder's range of play learning resources and equipment, and observed the suitability of the premises. n The inspector discussed the childminder's practice with her and the impact of her activity planning and engagement with children. n The inspector sampled a range of documentation, including children's records, those relating to safeguarding, and evidence of the childminder's suitability. The inspector talked to the childminder about her use of self-evaluation. n The inspector sought and took account of the views of parents.

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is good

Arrangements for safeguarding are effective. The childminder understands her responsibility to protect children from abuse and exposure to extreme views. She is clear about the procedures to follow if she is concerned about a child's welfare. Since the last inspection, the childminder has significantly increased opportunities for children to explore and experiment with different textures, such as soil and paint. She has also focused well on increasing opportunities for children to practise early writing. The childminder is beginning to work closely with children's nursery settings and is developing more-effective use of self-evaluation.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

The childminder plans and provides innovative activities and resources that interest children. For example, toddlers excitedly dig for root vegetables in soil and then purposefully name them wrongly as a joke. Toddlers re-visit activities such as this throughout the day, using the resources innovatively. Children use paint in different ways, such as on cling film wrapped around a tree in the forest. The childminder provides superb first-hand practical experiences for children to learn about their immediate and natural world. For example, children visited a hospital, nurture caterpillars through to butterflies, and regularly feed and help groom horses.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Parents say children settle in without distress because the process is not rushed. The childminder provides children with very good opportunities to engage in exhilarating outdoor play, such as tree climbing and den making. Children are very polite, kind and thoughtful. They open doors to toy cars for young toddlers and praise them for achievements saying 'that's good'. The childminder promotes British values well, including respect and tolerance. Children make cards for Father's Day and share with each other photographs of their families' diverse religious celebrations, such as Diwali and Christmas.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children are well prepared for moving on to nursery or school. They become toilet trained and learn to put on their own shoes to go in the garden. Children develop good hand skills as they use a variety of tools for mark making, transferring things and operating equipment, such as a working toy chainsaw to operate the 'scoop' facility. They confidently develop their own ideas, such as for transferring soil into a truck and transporting it around. Older children apply mathematics in practical ways, such as measuring their growing sunflowers.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY479882 Local authority Surrey Inspection number 10076186 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 - 4 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 3 Date of previous inspection 13 July 2016

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Registers

The childminder registered in 2014 and lives in Caterham, Surrey. She works Monday to Friday between 7.30am and 6pm throughout 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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