Childminder EY425734

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

Children are happy, relaxed and confident because of the childminder's calm and encouraging nature. Children are safe and secure. They learn how to move freely and safely around the play space. They carefully get on and off dining chairs at mealtimes and understand the need to sit down so that they do not hurt themselves. Children are polite and behave well. They respond positively when the childminder reminds them how to share and take turns. Older children are helpful and are proud when they are praised and thanked.

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The provision is good

Children hear and use a wide range of interesting words, which the childminder skilfully helps them to understand. For instance, when talking about food, she introduces the word 'flavour' and explains in simple language what the word means. However, very occasionally, language that is too simple is used with older children.

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The provision is good

The childminder knows the children well. She is keen to help them to achieve to the best of their abilities. During an activity with dried pasta, the children use different-sized spoons and containers to develop their hand-eye coordination. The childminder plans a more testing pasta threading activity for later in the day with older children to develop more refined skills. In doing this, rather than providing the resources at the initial activity, the childminder misses the opportunity to challenge older children right from the start of the activity.

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need to do better?

n The childminder has a good understanding of how children learn. She provides opportunities for them to practise what they already know, understand and can do as well as introducing new and more challenging activities. n Children have a love of stories and rhymes. The childminder reads storybooks to children with feeling, and children become engrossed in what is happening. Older children have well-developed reasoning skills and can think about and predict what might happen next in a story. n The childminder is committed to broadening children's horizons before they start school. She takes the children to the town centre library to experience a busy environment and join in group activities. She also takes children on walks in the local area where they paddle in streams in summer and collect autumn leaves to use in creative play. n The childminder promotes children's communication and language development

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need to do better?

well. She uses simple single words and sounds to encourage babies to communicate, such as 'car, brmm, brmm', which babies copy. With older children, she uses questions skilfully to help them to develop their use of sentences to provide an answer. However, there are times when she forgets she

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need to do better?

20 November 2019 is speaking to older children and uses phrases such as 'puss cat', which does not provide effective support for their language development. n Children make good independent choices about what they want to play with. They concentrate well and respond positively to the childminder's support when it is offered. Older children include others in their play. For example, they invite the childminder to join their picnic and ask other children to take a photograph of their 'babies' on the picnic. n The childminder provides children with healthy snacks and lunches that include fruit. Children are offered a choice of what to have for lunch, and the childminder reminds them of the benefits of what they are eating. For example, they talk about cheese helping to develop strong teeth and bones. n The childminder has a good relationship with parents and other childcare settings that the children attend. She shares development information and ideas

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need to do better?

to make sure children have consistent messages and expectations. n The childminder has a professional approach to her work. She understands the requirements of the early years foundation stage well. She keeps up to date with developments in the early years sector through professional organisations and shares thoughts and ideas with local childminding colleagues. n Children are developing good literacy and mathematical skills and knowledge. As they play, the childminder talks to children about size and capacity. She models counting items, and older children can count five items accurately. Children are beginning to understand that letters and sounds are linked and that grouped together they form words, such as their name. As the childminder writes younger children's names on their pictures, she makes letter sounds as she writes. Fascinated by this, children copy her actions by making small circular marks and, as they do, they make sounds mimicking the childminder's actions.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

The childminder speaks knowledgeably about the signs and symptoms of the different types of abuse that a child can suffer. She knows what to do and who to contact if she has concerns about a child in her care. The childminder understands her responsibility to keep children safe. For example, if a parent arrived to collect a child and the childminder felt the parent was unfit to care for the child, she would not release the child into the parent's care. The childminder keeps her house secure and safe to prevent unknown people accessing the house during childminding hours.

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should:

n avoid the use of baby language, especially with older children, and use proper

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should:

20 November 2019 words such as 'dog' or 'cat' so that children are prepared for future learning n develop planned activities so that challenge for older children is included right from the beginning.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY425734 Local authority Derbyshire Inspection number 10071589 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 10 Date of previous inspection 12 October 2015

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Information about this early years setting

The childminder registered in 2011 and lives in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. She operates all year round from 7.30am to 5.30pm, Monday to Thursday, except for bank holidays and family holidays. The childminder holds an appropriate qualification at level 3.

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Inspection activities

n The inspector observed the childminder and children in the playrooms and spoke to children at appropriate times. n The inspector held discussions with the childminder at appropriate times during the inspection. This included a discussion about the effectiveness of a planned activity. n The inspector viewed a range of documents, including evidence of the suitability of adults living in the household. n The inspector took account of the views of parents who had provided written testimonies for the childminder.

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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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