Childminder EY478461

Overall effectiveness Good

The quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Overall effectiveness at previous inspection Good

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The provision is good

The childminder is warm and welcoming with the children and ensures that they settle quickly in her company. She makes sure that children can access the resources, which are readily available in the designated playroom. Children demonstrate they feel safe in this environment. They make choices about what they want to play with throughout the day. This helps to promote their independence well. The childminder ensures that children have access to a range of resources and activities that promote children's growing awareness of diversity. Children explore a range of festivals across the calendar year. For example, they taste a variety of multicultural foods and explore similarities and difference between themselves and others in the local community. This helps children to develop their understanding about the wider world.

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The provision is good

Children enjoy playing alongside one another and with the childminder, who supports their learning well. For example, as children play with the small bears, the childminder encourages them to identify shape and colour, to count and to begin to identify positional language. Children listen intently and are provided with the important resource of time to think critically and to solve their own problems. During such activities, the childminder provides a running commentary and uses a range of questioning techniques that encourage children to speak with confidence. This helps to promote children's communication and language well.

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need to do better?

n Children enjoy a range of outings to places that interest them. For instance, they visit the local farm, where they learn about the different habitats of animals and what they eat. Children's interest in creatures is also well promoted as they seek out insects using their magnifying glasses in the woodland play areas. This helps children to develop their empathy for living things. Children take manageable risks in their play as they develop their climbing and balancing skills during park visits. Their physical skills are further developed through their daily access to equipment in the childminder's garden. This, and discussions about healthy eating during snack times, helps to promote children's growing awareness about a healthy lifestyle. n The childminder regularly takes children to the local toddler and childminder groups. Here, the children develop new friendships as they mix with others and learn to share and take turns. Children are well behaved and demonstrate a high

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regard for one another and the childminder. n Children are encouraged to develop their hand and finger muscles. They persist as they have a go at threading card with laces. This helps to build the small- muscle movements needed for children's early writing skills. The childminder uses praise and encouragement as children try and try again until they achieve

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13 November 2019 what they set out to do. This helps to develop children's self-esteem and fosters their strong emotional attachments. Children develop good levels of independence. They know to wash their hands before eating and after visiting the toilet and they engage very well with one another during tidy-up times. n The childminder promotes children's love of books. Children like to cuddle up for story time and are able to choose their own books. They join in with singing and rhyme time and demonstrate with excitement that they know all the words and actions. Children have lots of opportunities to make marks. They use a range of pens, crayons and chalks and they like to mix paints to create their own pictures. n The childminder includes the children and their parents in her action plans for improvement. She takes on board any suggestions and ensures any changes in place benefit all children on roll. Partnerships with the parents are very strong.

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Parents are provided with daily feedback about their children's time with the childminder. However, two-way sharing of information with other providers, such as the local pre-school and nursery, are not yet fully embedded. n The childminder develops good relationships with other local childminders. This enables her to share good practice and to attend training. For example, the childminder has attended training about caring for two-year-olds. This has helped her to develop a deeper understanding about why younger children may become upset and how to help them manage their feelings.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

The childminder keeps her child protection training updated. She has a good understanding about the possible signs of abuse and the procedures to be followed should she have any concerns about a child. The childminder rigorously checks all areas within her home and her garden to ensure children are not exposed to any hazards. Furthermore, she supervises children closely to ensure they are kept safe and well throughout the day. The childminder makes sure that all outings are risk assessed before embarking on them with the children. She keeps her paediatric first-aid training updated at all times.

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n develop partnership working with other providers to promote a high level of continuity for all children's care and learning.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY478461 Local authority Trafford Inspection number 10076046 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 11 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 9 Date of previous inspection 18 February 2016

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Information about this early years setting

The childminder registered in 2014 and lives in Timperley, Altrincham. She operates all year round from 8am to 6pm, Monday to Wednesday, except for bank holidays and family holidays. The childminder provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.

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Inspection activities

n The inspector observed the quality of teaching during indoor play times and evaluated the impact this has on children's learning. n A tour of the provision was conducted to discuss the organisation of the resources and the curriculum provided. n The inspector and the childminder conducted a joint observation of a planned activity with the children. n The inspector spoke to children and the childminder at appropriate times during the inspection. She took account of the written views of parents and checked the suitability of those living at the provision.

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Inspection activities

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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