Childminder EY422973

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 thrive in the care of this exceptional childminder. She has high aspirations for all children. The childminder has created an imaginative and exciting curriculum, which is supported by thoughtfully planned and useful assessments. Children have highly positive attitudes to their learning and are confident, curious and happy in the secure and stimulating environment of the childminder's home and beyond.

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The provision is outstanding

The childminder knows each child extremely well. She works collaboratively with parents to ensure that she has a clear picture of children's starting points. She accurately identifies next steps and meticulously plans activities and experiences that support children's learning and development. She uses a range of sharply focused assessments to ensure that any gaps in children's development are very quickly identified. This ensures that all children make excellent progress.

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The provision is outstanding

The childminder understands the critical importance of effective support for early communication and language. Her interactions with children are skilful and of consistently very high quality. Children enjoy looking at the contents of a bag of toy animals with the childminder. Children are engrossed in the conversation as they identify and discuss the similarities and differences between the ducks. The childminder sensitively encourages children to be confident talkers while ensuring that they use correct terms for the ducks. For example, the childminder repeats back to children, 'Yes, a quack quack. That's a duck.' This deep understanding of child development and highly positive interactions supports children's communication and language very well.

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n Warm and positive relationships with children are at the heart of the childminder's practice. There is lots of shared laughter and cuddles during the day. The childminder takes great care to form bonds with children before they join the setting, for example by delivering them a card on their birthday. She keeps in touch with families by sharing videos over the school holidays. This supports children to quickly feel emotionally secure. n The childminder has clear routines in place and high expectations for behaviour. For example, children help to tidy up the toys without being asked and say 'please' and 'thank you' without being reminded. Children are encouraged to continue to try hard, even when something is difficult. For example, children are engrossed as they turn the pieces in a jigsaw. They concentrate hard as they carefully select and turn the pieces to find their correct place. As a result of

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these clear and positive expectations, children behave exceedingly well and have a determined and resilient attitude towards their learning.

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3 September 2025 n The childminder plans a robust curriculum to support the development of children's physical skills. Children are extremely motivated as they bend and stretch to build a tower of blocks, ordering them from big to small. Children very carefully get to their feet, in order to add extra bricks, without knocking the tower over. They are delighted as they are then able to continue to add to the tower. These activities are highly successful in supporting children to develop both their fine and gross motor skills. n Children are very well supported to develop their independence. Children confidently get their own nappies and wipes when they need changing. At snack time, children competently prepare their own fruit, neatly slicing the tops off strawberries and cutting them into small chunks. The childminder is full of praise and encouragement for their efforts. This develops children's characters and

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prepares them well for next steps, such as starting school. n Children enjoy a range of captivating trips and experiences in the local community, which enhance and enrich the curriculum. Children gasp in awe and wonder as huge butterflies flutter around their fingers on a trip to a butterfly house, planned to enhance their understanding of the story of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. Children search in woods to find a particular tree trunk covered in deep claw marks as part of their exploration of the story of 'The Gruffalo'. These experiences develop children's imaginations and their love of stories and books. n Children have an amazing array of opportunities to socialise beyond the childminder's home and to feel part of the wider community. They develop their social skills with larger groups of children when they meet at playgroups. They take part in community events with older people and link this to their own

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family's history. Children regularly take part in an inter-generational group, where they listen to a story with a moral and enjoy a snack together with older people. These experiences are highly effective in supporting children to develop their understanding and respect for people of different ages and of the wider community. n The childminder is highly reflective of her own practice. She has undertaken additional training and qualifications as a result of her self-evaluation of skills. She works collaboratively with parents and seeks and acts on feedback from parents in order to elevate and refine her very strong practice still further. This ensures that her already superb offer to children and families continues to develop and improve. n Parents are full of praise and appreciation for the strong partnership working between themselves and the childminder, such as support with toilet training. They describe the childminder as 'incredible' and say that their children love the

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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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Setting details

Unique reference number EY422973 Local authority Warrington Inspection number 10407330 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 1 Date of previous inspection 6 January 2020

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Information about this early years setting

The childminder registered in 2011 and lives in Warrington. She operates all year round, from 8am to 5pm, Monday to Thursday, except for bank holidays and family holidays. She provides government-funded childcare. The childminder holds an appropriate qualification at level 3.

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Inspection activities

n The childminder and the inspector discussed how the childminder organises their early years provision, including the aims and rationale for their early years foundation stage curriculum. n Children communicated with the inspector during the inspection. n The inspector observed the interactions between the childminder and children. n The childminder and inspector discussed how the curriculum had been implemented and the impact that this had on children's learning. n Parents shared their views of the setting with the inspector. n The childminder provided the inspector with a sample of key documentation on request.

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Inspection activities

3 September 2025 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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