Walker, Kayleigh

Overall effectiveness Good

The quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Overall effectiveness at previous inspection Not applicable

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The provision is good

The childminder provides a warm, welcoming environment with exciting toys and resources for the children. They confidently choose what they want to play with. Children play well together and join in building a tower to see if they can make it taller than the assistant. They work together to make a train track and say they are going to make it reach the garden. Younger children explore different household objects in a basket and hold them out for the childminder, who tells them what they are.

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The provision is good

Children get the chance to follow their interests through exciting outings. For example, they recently visited the local museum to learn about space and explore the large exhibition of dinosaurs. They painted pictures of the moon and stars, made models and played with the toy dinosaurs back at the childminder's home, recreating the things they had seen at the museum.

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The provision is good

Outdoors, children have the chance to use different bicycles, scooters and ride-on toys. They race each other up and down the path, accepting well when others win. They help the childminder and the assistant to grow vegetables that they use in snacks and meals, discovering how they help them to have energy and why they are good for them to eat.

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need to do better?

n The childminder and her assistant speak clearly with the children. They introduce some new words as the children play, and listen carefully to what children say. The childminder has looked at different ways of helping children who are developing their speech to catch up. This includes using signs and pictures to help them to learn the routine for the day and to join in with rhymes and songs. n Children tip the contents of bags into a tray and then eagerly explore the leaves, conkers, apple and twigs they have collected on walks with parents. The childminder adds tweezers and egg cartons. Children use the tweezers to pick up the conkers and put them in the egg carton. Although the childminder and the assistant talk with the children as they explore the items, they miss chances to encourage them effectively to listen and respond to learning opportunities. For example, they ask children to pick out different colours of leaves or count

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need to do better?

the conkers they have put in trays, but do not follow this up when children continue playing and ignore the questions. n The childminder knows the children well and organises her provision to monitor and enhance children's progress effectively. She seeks to involve parents in their children's learning extremely well. For example, she provides packs for children to take home with activities linked to what they need to learn next. Children

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need to do better?

16 October 2019 benefit from continuing their learning well at home. n There are good systems for monitoring the assistant's skills and understanding. The childminder has recognised that her assistant would benefit from more training on how she can better support children's learning and development and has enrolled her on a relevant course to help with this. n Children's independence and self-care skills are encouraged well, such as when they go to the toilet by themselves and the childminder checks they have washed their hands afterwards. Children are given knives to cut their banana at snack time. However, sometimes, they are so keen to eat the fruit that the childminder misses the opportunity to get them to use the knives at the start of the activity. n Children enjoy their time with the childminder, learn well and make good progress. They make confident choices about what they want to play with from

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need to do better?

the wide range of accessible toys and resources indoors and outdoors. They develop physical skills and manage risks as they work out how to climb the slide or avoid bumping into others when pushing the doll around the garden in the buggy.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

The childminder makes sure that she keeps children in her care safe. She and her assistant have attended training to update their safeguarding knowledge so that they know the current guidance and contact details should they have any concerns about the welfare of a child. The childminder makes sure that her assistant is suitable to work with children and monitors her well.

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should:

n make the most of different opportunities to enhance and extend children's learning and development as they play and join in with routine activities during the day n review the organisation of group activities to help children engage well with others and be ready to learn from the outset.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY547066 Local authority Gloucestershire Inspection number 10109058 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 to 4 Total number of places 12 Number of children on roll 11 Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Information about this early years setting

The childminder registered in 2017 and lives in Gloucester. She operates all year round from 7am to 6pm, Monday to Friday. The childminder holds a childcare qualification at level 3. She provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children. The childminder always works with an assistant.

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Inspection activities

n The inspector spoke to the childminder, assistant, children and parents at appropriate times during the inspection. n A learning walk around the childminder's home and garden was undertaken by the inspector and childminder to see how she provides learning experiences for the children. n A joint evaluation of the activities was carried out to look at the impact on children's learning. n The inspector observed the quality of teaching indoors and outdoors. n A range of the childminder's paperwork was sampled, including children's records, policies and suitability records for the childminder and the assistant.

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Inspection activities

16 October 2019 We carried out this inspection 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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Inspection activities

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