Childminder in Waltham Forest

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 form good attachments with the childminder and other adults in the childminder's home. They provide a warm and friendly welcome on arrival to the children. Children happily say goodbye to their parents at the front door, and most children separate with ease. When children need extra reassurance, they readily snuggle up with the adults. When children are sleepy, adults settle them in a calm and quiet area. This supports their emotional health well.

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The provision is good

When children show an interest in visitors, the childminder helps them to engage and be sociable. Children enjoy opportunities to engage with the local community. Along with the childminder, and other adults, they attend story and rhyme sessions at various locations. This promotes children's social skills and confidence well.

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The provision is good

The childminder's learning programme is ambitious. It has features of familiarity and routine, which helps children to settle and progress well in the setting. Children understand the childminder's behavioural expectations and they behave well. For instance, children sit patiently outside on benches to wait for their friends to join them to begin their outings around the local community. Children are learning to be respectful of others.

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need to do better?

n Children have good opportunities to develop their small- and large-muscle skills. For instance, they enjoy manipulating play dough by squeezing, moulding and cutting it. Children have fun as they develop their emergent writing skills. The childminder provides paints, brushes and mark-making tools for children to make marks. The children like moving their bodies as they move to the tune of nursery rhymes.. This promotes children's physical development well. n The childminder, and other adults, consistently model kindness in their interactions with children. But, during some routine and group experiences, the childminder and the other adults do not consistently use effective questioning to extend children's communication and language skills further. This means that some children are not expressing their ideas and making the best possible progress with their vocabulary. n The childminder skilfully teaches children about early maths concepts. Children

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need to do better?

learn about numbers through a range of playful activities and experiences, such as counting how many red doors they identify on a walk. This benefits children's early sorting and categorising skills. n The childminder has an array of good-quality books to benefit children's literacy skills further. Children enjoy turning pages in books. They laugh as they repeat refrains to familiar books during fun story sessions. This fosters a love of reading.

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need to do better?

15 November 2024 n Adults in the setting recognise, praise and encourage children's attempts to be independent. They teach children the importance of washing their hands, particularly before eating and after using the toilet. Some children can do this with no support. At other times, adults in the setting give support to children to try to put on their own shoes and zip up their coats. Children are making progress in developing their self-help skills further. n The childminder reflects on her practice and looks for ways to improve her skills and knowledge. She accesses training to further her knowledge and shares her learning with other adults in the setting. This helps to improve learning outcomes for children. n The childminder gathers information about children's allergies and dietary requirements. She prepares nutritious meals and fruit snacks during the day for the children. This supports children's health.

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need to do better?

n The childminder and other adults form good relationships with parents. They share information with them about their children's daily experiences at the setting. The childminder and parents share ideas about how to further support their children's learning at home. n Parents are complimentary about the childminder. She talks to them about the progress their children are making at the setting. Parents comment that all the adults in the setting are friendly and approachable. This supports good partnership working with parents.

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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 strengthen the use of effective questioning skills to give children more time to think and respond to questions to enable them to share their ideas and increase their vocabulary.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY318555 Local authority London Borough of Waltham Forest Inspection number 10362088 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 24 Number of children on roll 16 Date of previous inspection 7 May 2019

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Information about this early years setting

The childminder was registered in 2006 and lives in Leyton, in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. She operates all year round from 7am to 6pm, except for bank holidays and family holidays. The childminder holds an appropriate qualification at level 3. She employs three assistants..

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Inspection activities

n The childminder showed the inspector the premises and discussed how she ensures they are safe and suitable. n The childminder and the inspector completed a learning walk together to discuss the childminder's intentions for children's learning. n Other adults in the setting spoke to the inspector during the inspection at convenient times. n The inspector carried out a joint observation of group activities with the childminder. n The inspector spoke with parents during the inspection to gather their views of the setting.

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Inspection activities

15 November 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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Inspection activities

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