Childminder EY545265

Inspection date 4 July 2019 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 Outstanding 1

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This provision is outstanding

n The childminder establishes inspirational relationships with children and gets to know their individual personalities incredibly well. Children have an exceptionally good sense of belonging and outstanding levels of self-esteem and self-worth. n The childminder builds and maintains amazingly good partnerships with parents and keeps them incredibly well involved. For instance, she encourages them to share children's achievements from home which she implements into the plans. This helps all children remain enthralled in their learning and continue to make outstanding progress. The childminder shares helpful advice and tips regularly with parents, such as how to support children to become independently toilet trained. n All children have incredibly good opportunities to be creative. They make highly interesting creations. For example, they dye rice to make coloured patterns. Children make edible paint and create their masterpiece on bread for a snack. Children explore

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This provision is outstanding

different artists and genres of art at regular visits to the Tate gallery. n Children have amazing opportunities to learn about the importance of healthy eating. They are extremely excited to prepare their own healthy produce, such as courgette and cheese muffins, home-made tomato soup and watermelon lollies. n There is excellent use of the local community to extend children's learning experiences. For example, when children are fascinated in pirates, they go on to visit the Chatham dockyard museum and the pirate expedition to bring their imagination alive. Children who are enthralled in dinosaurs go on to visit 'dinosaur lands' and explore moving animatronic dinosaurs. n Children have outstanding opportunities to develop their early mathematical skills. For example, they complete multiplication sums and talk about fractions and percentages as they cut fruit at snack times with great confidence.

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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 enhance the already excellent opportunities to explore and investigate the natural world and how things grow even further.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

n The inspector viewed the areas of the childminder's home that children use. n The inspector observed the childminder interacting with the children. n The inspector sampled written documentation, such as children's progress reports, and policies and procedures. n The inspector spoke to children and the childminder at convenient times.

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is outstanding

The childminder evaluates her practice incredibly well. She has daily discussions with children and together they discuss how well the day's events enthralled them in their learning. She uses the feedback to enhance her future activity plans. This helps children feel exceptionally valued and listened to. Children remain enthusiastic to learn. The childminder highlights a need to enhance children's opportunities to explore and investigate how things grow even further. The childminder is extremely keen to continue to extend her already impressive knowledge and skills. She attends highly beneficial training. She carries out daily reading and research, and learns about different theorists and approaches, such as Maslow's hierarchy of needs. She has used her learning to help her fully understand how to help children feel exceptionally valued. Safeguarding is effective. The childminder has an outstanding understanding of the safeguarding

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is outstanding

procedures to follow to help protect children's safety and welfare. Children learn how to keep themselves safe with incredible maturity. For instance, they participate in regular trips to the beach where they discuss tides and how to remain safe near the water.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder tracks children's progress amazingly well. This enables her to support children to quickly catch up and continue to make outstanding progress. The childminder establishes extremely positive partnerships with other early years professionals. For example, she routinely observes children and makes next steps on their learning together with staff at settings children also attend. The childminder supports children to prepare for their eventual move to school exceptionally well. For example, children are incredibly independent and learn more-complicated skills, such as tying up their shoelaces. The childminder enthusiastically extends on children's interests. For example, when children make a submarine, they learn submarine facts and listen to songs about the sea vessel.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children are extremely polite and their behaviour is impeccable. All children have excellent opportunities to challenge their physical skills. For instance, they negotiate more-difficult equipment, such as stilts, zip wires and climbing walls at daily trips to the park. Children are extremely confident to share their ideas and make up their own rhymes and stories that they are eager to share with their friends. Children gain an outstanding understanding of other people's similarities and differences. For instance, they explore different places of worship, such as learning about and building model mosques.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children make outstanding progress in their learning. Children are incredibly mature and participate in excellent activities as a team, such as skittles. Children have outstanding opportunities to develop their early reading and writing skills to support their future learning and help prepare them for their eventual move to school exceptionally well. For example, older children learn about lower- and upper-case letters. They enjoy an extensive range of genres of reading materials, such as print in other languages.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY545265 Local authority Kent Inspection number 10099592 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 1 - 11 Total number of places 3 Number of children on roll 6 Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Registers

The childminder registered in 2017. She lives in Faversham, Kent. She cares for children Monday to Friday, from 7.30am to 6pm, all year round. The childminder receives funding to provide free early education for children aged three years.

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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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Registers

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