Childminder in Hampshire

Inspection date 23 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 provides exceptional care for children. Together with parents, she carefully considers and responds to every aspect of children's development. Children are enthusiastic learners and make outstanding progress from their starting points, including children who are learning English as an additional language. n The childminder provides children with an excellent role model. She treats children with great respect, values everything they do and say, and successfully promotes their excellent behaviour. n The childminder provides children with a very welcoming, stimulating and safe environment. She encourages children to assess risks for themselves and develops their confidence to tackle new challenges, for example to use knives safely while spreading humus on crackers at snack time. n The childminder promotes children's understanding of good health exceptionally well. She helps them to learn what nutrients are in different types of food and why they are

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This provision is outstanding

good for you. Children confidently identify that oranges and strawberries contain vitamin C. n The childminder carefully evaluates and continually improves the activities she provides for the children. Since registration, the childminder has created a mud kitchen with pumps for children to operate to collect water to use in their play. She has provided a well-organised garden shed with a wealth of interesting resources for children to choose to support their learning.

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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 provide children with more time to learn independently to enhance the excellent teaching practice even further.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

n The inspector talked with the childminder, parents and children and observed indoor and outdoor activities. n The inspector looked at a sample of documentation. n The inspector and childminder observed children during an activity and completed a follow-up discussion about children's learning, progress and behaviour. n The inspector discussed self-evaluation with the childminder. n The inspector took account of parents' comments in documentation.

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is highly effective. The childminder has an excellent understanding of child protection procedures. She uses the local authority website to keep her safeguarding knowledge up to date. She has recently introduced a text system that provides immediate support from the emergency services if her and the children need help. The childminder completes additional training that supports her excellent teaching practice and professional development. She has introduced ideas from the training to provide outstanding support for children who are learning English as an additional language. For instance, she has made special books for children which she uses with parents to carefully record children's language development.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder dedicates her time to helping children to learn as much as they can. She consistently responds to children's individual interests and develops their excellent self- confidence and vocabulary. Children are exceptionally motivated learners and thoroughly enjoy the challenges the childminder provides during their play. The childminder provides numerous interesting activities which she uses to promote children's outstanding development. For instance, to support their understanding of the world, the childminder takes children to pick strawberries which they use to make fruit tarts and to farms where they feed lambs with bottles of milk. She skilfully teaches children how to do things, although occasionally she does not provide children with time to learn independently.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The childminder works extremely well with parents and pre-schools to help children settle and feel very emotionally secure. She explains everything to the children in an exceptionally patient manner and sometimes in an excited voice while joining in their play. The childminder consistently includes children in any decision making. She encourages them to help to choose new toys and resources and discusses who will play with them and how important it is to share. The childminder teaches children to do as much as possible for themselves.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are extremely well prepared for starting school. Their concentration is exceptional and they eagerly take part in group activities. For example, older children thoroughly enjoy looking for bugs in the garden and creating natural habitats using stones and leaves. Younger children develop excellent social skills. For instance, they confidently include others while using finger puppets and listening to stories. Children listen and respond to the childminder and their friends with great enthusiasm while learning about the weather, date, month and days of the week.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY541458 Local authority Hampshire Inspection number 10090113 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 3 - 3 Total number of places 4 Number of children on roll 4 Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Registers

The childminder registered in 2017. She lives in Eastleigh, Hampshire. The childminder provides care for children from Monday to Wednesday, for most of the year. She receives funding to provide free early education to 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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