Childminder EY378699

Overall effectiveness Outstanding

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

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The provision is outstanding

Children flourish in the exceptionally warm and welcoming environment. They are extremely secure emotionally and share exceptional attachments with the childminder and her assistant. Children are highly confident, extremely happy and feel safe. They benefit from the highly positive interactions with the childminder and her assistant, who praise them for their many achievements. Children engage highly successfully in exciting and challenging activities indoors and outdoors. For example, they use an exceptionally wide range of vocabulary as they recall the story of 'The Gruffalo'. Children use their senses to explore an extensive range of resources including oats to make Gruffalo 'crumble', and pom-poms to represent the Gruffalo's 'poisonous wart', as they repeat familiar phrases from the story.

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The provision is outstanding

The childminder and her assistant have high expectations of all children. The childminder meticulously plans a highly challenging and exciting curriculum to support every child successfully to make the best possible progress. As a result, children are excelling in all areas of learning. The progress in their personal, social and emotional development is inspiring. Children have extremely high levels of respect for the childminder and her assistant and have built superb friendships with one another. Their behaviour is exemplary. Children participate in yoga and drama sessions, which contribute highly to their excellent posture, exceptional concentration and high levels of creativity.

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n Children are highly motivated to learn. Children of all ages confidently count to 10 and beyond. They pretend to make 'crumble', using weighing scales to weigh the cakes made from oats, and confidently decide which one is the heaviest or the lightest. Their kindness to one another is inspirational as they play exceptionally harmoniously together, taking turns and sharing resources effortlessly. n The childminder is extremely passionate about building on her professional development to improve her excellent knowledge and teaching skills even further. For example, after training about learning through play, she has introduced more resources to encourage children's excellent communication and language skills. She provides a vast range of opportunities for children to engage in sensory play. As a result, children have developed an extremely vivid imagination and exceptional confidence to speak in a group.

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n The childminder reflects on and evaluates her practice extremely well. For example, she has introduced a picture learning journey, which she displays in the playroom with photographs of the children engaged in activities. She annotates this to show their excellent progress and uses it effectively to initiate discussions with parents and children. This helps parents to be highly involved in

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22 January 2020 their children's learning and helps children settle extremely quickly into the setting, giving them a very strong sense of belonging. n The childminder is highly committed and is an excellent role model to the children and her assistants. She is extremely supportive and recognises each assistant's individuality and skills. She monitors the performance of her assistants extremely effectively to ensure that she continues to provide the exceptionally high standards of care and education to children. The childminder's assistants reflect well on the training they complete and are highly successful at using new skills to extend and promote children's learning and development effectively. n Partnerships with parents, other early years settings, external agencies and schools are extremely strong. The childminder attends meetings to support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. She takes the children

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to stay-and-play sessions at the school and liaises closely with the Reception class teacher, who visits the childminder's setting. Parents are extremely complimentary about the childminder and the provision she provides. They appreciate the warm and caring environment and the childminder's excellent communication. Parents view themselves as extremely lucky and describe the childminder as 'amazing'. n The childminder and her assistant interact with the children superbly to ignite their interest and engage them highly successfully in a broad and varied curriculum. The childminder makes the most of every opportunity to support children in developing skills highly effectively for their future learning and starting school. Children count out the plates and fruit they need at snack time. They begin to make simple calculations, developing excellent mathematical knowledge. Children are extremely independent. They dress themselves for

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outside play, with minimal support. They pour drinks and cut fruit into pieces.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

The childminder has an expert knowledge of child protection issues and knows what to do should she have a concern about the welfare of a child in her care. She is thoroughly committed to her role in protecting children from harm and has an excellent understanding of her responsibilities. She ensures that her assistants keep their safeguarding knowledge up to date, including knowledge of wider safeguarding issues and whistle-blowing procedures. The childminder tests their knowledge through regular meetings and discussions to ensure they know what to do. The childminder carries out thorough risk assessments on her home and for the outings she takes with children. She takes effective action to provide a safe environment for children to play.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY378699 Local authority Devon Inspection number 10074149 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 9 Total number of places 9 Number of children on roll 18 Date of previous inspection 31 May 2016

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Information about this early years setting

The childminder registered in 2008 and lives in Exmouth, Devon. She works Monday to Friday for most of the year. She has a childcare qualification at level 3. The childminder works with assistants.

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Inspection activities

n The childminder gave the inspector a tour of her home. She talked about how she delivers the curriculum and children's learning and progress. n The childminder and the inspector observed children during activities and completed a follow-up discussion about children's learning and development. n The inspector spoke to the childminder, the children and the childminder's assistant throughout the inspection. n A sample of documentation was reviewed, including policies and records relating to the suitability of the childminder and her assistants. n Parental feedback was read and parents' views taken into account.

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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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