Lee, Marianne Denise

Overall effectiveness Outstanding

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

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The provision is outstanding

The experienced and knowledgeable childminder is passionate about offering the highest-quality care and learning. She is an inspiring practitioner who provides a rich and stimulating environment for children to explore. She captures children's interests incredibly well and consistently uses skilful questioning to challenge them to extend their skills and build on their knowledge.

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The provision is outstanding

The childminder knows her children extremely well and has high expectations of what they can achieve. As a result, children become enthusiastic and self- motivated learners who flourish in her care. They quickly grasp new ideas and enthusiastically set about achieving new challenges. They recall prior learning extremely well and develop exceptional levels of concentration in their play. Children are happy, content and demonstrate that they feel incredibly safe and emotionally secure in the childminder's care.

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The provision is outstanding

The childminder plans her curriculum with great precision. This helps her to ensure that she equips children with the skills and knowledge for success in their future learning. Children are keen to explore their own ideas and develop high levels of confidence in solving problems and delight in exploring cause and effect. When things do not go to plan, they quickly look for ways to solve the problem. For example, children eagerly source large tubes from the wide variety of accessible resources to create their own games. They delight in experimenting with different heights and surfaces to explore what happens to the speed that their cars travel at.

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n A deeply embedded and well-planned curriculum supports children to make excellent progress in their learning, including those who speak English as an additional language. The childminder's meticulous observation, assessment and monitoring systems support her to thoroughly plan for children's next steps in learning. n The childminder uses homemade resources superbly to support children to develop excellent mathematical skills. For instance, as children enthusiastically match coloured balls into a sorting box, the childminder seamlessly extends their knowledge. Children are supported to develop a secure understanding of positional language, quantities and how to make simple predictions in their play. Children enjoy calculating how many balls they need to fill the box and how many balls they have left. They confidently recognise written numerals and enthusiastically gather the corresponding number of balls. Children persevere

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extremely well when they are faced with challenges and demonstrate a superb 'can-do' attitude. n Children thoroughly enjoy stories, songs and rhymes. The childminder uses high-

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12 February 2020 quality resources to excite children and inspire their literacy skills. For example, children quickly run to find their story bags and are eager to select the toys to match the storybook characters. Children enthusiastically recall familiar words, listen attentively and confidently act out their favourite stories. Children are keen to point out the characters in the story, and are encouraged to examine what they are doing. n Children's behaviour is superb. The childminder is an excellent role model who values children's thoughts and opinions. Respect and kindness are thoroughly embedded throughout the childminder's home. Children are incredibly polite and considerate and are keen to share their play. They demonstrate high levels of pride in their own accomplishments. n Children develop extremely strong bonds with the warm and caring childminder. Robust settling in systems ensure that the individual needs of children are well

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met. The childminder works closely with parents to develop a strong understanding of their care and learning needs from the outset. As a result, children feel exceptionally safe and secure in the childminder's care. n The childminder is wholly committed to developing exceptional parent partnerships. She regularly seeks their views about her service to help her to evaluate her setting. The childminder shares a wealth of information with parents about their children's development and learning experiences, as well as ideas to support their home learning. Parents speak extremely highly of the childminder. They praise the excellent communication that they receive and the reassurance the childminder offers. They comment on the variety of activities that their children are offered, indoors and outdoors, and that their 'outcomes are amazing'. n The childminder is dedicated to her ongoing professional development and

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raising the quality of learning. She attends a wide variety of training and shares best practice with other childminders, as well as conducting her own research. Since her last inspection, she has attended forest school training to extend the learning opportunities children have outdoors and enhance their understanding of nature and the world around them.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

The childminder makes safeguarding her highest priority. She has an excellent understanding of child protection and safeguarding procedures. She talks confidently about the signs and indicators that suggest a child may be at risk of abuse or neglect. She regularly attends training and conducts her own research, including wider safeguarding concerns such as female genital mutilation and the 'Prevent' duty. She has an extremely secure knowledge of the steps to take if she has a concern about a child's well-being. The childminder is vigilant of children's safety. Her risk assessments are robust, in her home and when on outings in the community.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY433539 Local authority Surrey Inspection number 10136685 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 8 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 6 Date of previous inspection 9 February 2016

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Information about this early years setting

The childminder registered in 2011. She operates her service from her home in West Molesey, Surrey. She works from Tuesday to Friday, from 7.30am to 5.45pm, all year round.

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Inspection activities

n The childminder gave the inspector a tour of her premises and explained how the early years provision was organised. n The inspector took account of parents' views through their written feedback. n The inspector spoke with the childminder and children at appropriate times during the inspection. n The inspector observed children's play and the childminder's interactions during activities.

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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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