Childminder in Northumberland

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 thrive at this friendly and welcoming setting. They are happy, settled and secure as they play imaginatively with toy dinosaurs, alongside their friends. The childminder is patient, caring and kind. She builds lovely relationships with the children in her care. They form close bonds and obviously enjoy each other's company. Children show focus and concentration as they build with construction toys and listen to favourite stories. The childminder praises and encourages them. This helps to build children's confidence and self-esteem. She is clear with her praise and celebrates children's achievements with them. This means children understand clearly what they have done well.

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The provision is good

The childminder supports children's personal, social and emotional development well. Regular daily routines help children feel secure. Good hygiene routines help them to understand how to keep themselves healthy. The childminder encourages children to share and play cooperatively together as they build towers from bricks and tracks for their toy cars. Children's behaviour is consistently good. The childminder encourages children's growing independence. For example, children learn how to wash their own hands and peel their fruit at snack times.

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need to do better?

n The experienced childminder provides a good range of experiences and activities that she knows will interest and excite children. These cover all areas of learning. However, occasionally, when planning activities, she does not always consider in detail the aims for each child's learning. n Support for children's physical development is good. Children benefit daily from fresh air and exercise. They have good opportunities to develop larger movements through play in the childminder's enclosed garden and trips to local parks and soft-play centres. n Children develop small-muscle skills in preparation for early writing. For example, they learn to use their hands in different ways as they build towers and explore with small-world toys. n The childminder provides good support for children's developing communication and language skills. She repeats words back to children. This helps them to know their words are valued and understood.

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need to do better?

n Children hear lots of language as the childminder chats to them about their play. They share stories and sing songs. The childminder introduces new words such as 'segment'. She helps children to extend their vocabularies and experience rhythm and rhyme. n The childminder has completed training in mathematics and her support for children's mathematical development is a strength of the setting. The childminder encourages children to count and to learn about shape, colour and

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need to do better?

30 September 2024 size. Children learn about quantity as they halve oranges at snack time. n Children learn about positional language, such as 'top', 'around' and 'together', as they pretend to build roads and wash their hands before snack time. They help to solve problems, such as how to strengthen the towers they build by adding bricks to the base. n The childminder supports children to make simple choices and decisions. For example, children choose which piece of fruit they would like at snack time and which book they would like to read next. However, there are less opportunities for children to choose from and independently access resources that promote creativity and sensory development. n Parents speak highly of the childminder. They praise the guidance and support she offers, for instance, around children's eating. Parents say communication at the setting is 'excellent' and that the childminder 'goes above and beyond' in her

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care of children. They say their children 'adore her' and that they would highly recommend her to other parents. n The childminder has built good relationships with the local school children also attend. She shares information with teachers when children move on to school from her setting. This helps to provide a consistent approach to support children's learning. n The childminder has experience of caring for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. She has a positive attitude to her professional development and has identified further training she would like to complete, for example, on how to help support children to manage their feelings and emotions.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

There is an open and positive culture around safeguarding that puts children's interests first.

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should:

n consider in more detail the aims for each child's learning when planning activities n strengthen opportunities for children to choose from and independently access resources that promote creativity and sensory development.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 506947 Local authority Northumberland Inspection number 10363784 Type of provision Childminder

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Registers

Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Day care type Childminder

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inspection

Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 5 Date of previous inspection 9 January 2019

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Information about this early years setting

The childminder registered in 1993 and lives in Cramlington, Northumberland. She operates all year round, from 7am to 6pm, Monday to Friday except for bank holidays and family holidays. The childminder provides funded care and early education for children.

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Inspection activities

n The childminder showed the inspector around the areas of her home that children access. They discussed how the childminder organises her setting and plans the curriculum and experiences for children. n The inspector discussed with the childminder how she helps to keep children safe. This included evidence about first-aid training and suitability of those living on the premises. n The childminder and the inspector reflected on an activity together. The inspector observed the quality of education during activities and assessed the impact on children's learning. n The inspector took account of parents' written feedback.

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Inspection activities

30 September 2024 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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30 September 2024 regulates and inspects to achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. It regulates and inspects childcare and children's social care, and inspects the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass), schools, colleges, initial teacher training, further education and skills, adult and community learning, and education and training in prisons and other secure establishments. It assesses council children's services, and inspects services for looked after children, safeguarding and child protection.

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