Ofsted

Izelda Waite

Unique reference number	EY367343
Type of setting	Childminder
Inspector	Anita McKelvey
Inspection date	26 November 2018
Previous Inspection date	10 August 2015

The quality and standards of the early years provision

This inspection	Outstanding	1
Previous inspection	Good	2
Effectiveness of the leadership and management	Outstanding	1
Quality of teaching, learning and assessment	Outstanding	1
Personal development, behaviour and welfare	Outstanding	1
Outcomes for children	Outstanding	1

The setting meets legal requirements for early years settings

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is outstanding

• The childminder supervises her assistant extremely well. She makes sure that professional development opportunities enhance her and her assistant's already highquality teaching skills. Recent training on supporting children's behaviour and communication has helped her to plan effectively to enhance all children's inclusion in activities.
• The childminder makes sure observations and assessments of children's learning are precise and accurate. She rapidly identifies when children need extra help and seeks the appropriate support for them. Children make excellent progress in their learning.
• The childminder has fantastic relationships with parents. She provides individual support for children and parents, from the outset and ongoing. Children learn to cope superbly with changes such as leaving parents for the first time and moving on into playgroup and school.
• The childminder makes sure the play spaces are extremely welcoming and inviting. All toys and resources are readily accessible. Children show high levels of curiosity and imagination as they make decisions about how they want to play.
• The childminder listens to children, parents, co-childminder and assistant to enhance her outstanding practice and provision. She includes celebrations and experiences from home lives exceedingly well to teach children about others. Children show excellent consideration and respect for others.
• The childminder, co-childminder and assistant are very responsive to children's needs. They support children brilliantly in new situations. Children show that they feel secure and develop exceptionally high self-esteem and confidence.

What the setting needs to do to improve further

To further improve the quality of the early years provision the provider should:

• build on the excellent support for children's communication and use the correct names for animals, rather than copying what the children say.

Inspection activities

• The inspector observed the quality of the childminder's teaching indoors and outdoors.
• The inspector took into account the views of parents through written testimonials.
• The inspector carried out a joint evaluation of children's learning with the childminder.
• The inspector spoke with the childminder, co-childminder, assistant and the children at appropriate times during the inspection.
• The inspector sampled paperwork, including policies and procedures, planning, and children's records.

Inspection findings

Effectiveness of leadership and management is outstanding

The childminder uses contributions from others and continuing professional development to help identify changes and improvements. For example, she is looking to enhance children's understanding about staying healthy including through growing more fruit and vegetables and trying new things in the setting. Safeguarding is effective. The childminder has kept her knowledge about keeping children safe and handling personal data up to date. She knows what to do if she has concerns about a child. She shares current guidance with her co-childminder, assistant and parents such as through updated policies and procedures.

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder knows the children exceptionally well. She provides plenty of opportunities for them to lead the play. Children show high levels of involvement as they play and learn. The childminder is extremely supportive, offering new words such as 'camouflaged', when children notice that the toy frogs are well-hidden in the tray as they are the same colour as the cereals. However, she recognises that on occasion she repeats children's own words for things instead of using the correct name. The childminder encourages children's creativity excellently. She helps them use the virtual digital assistant to ask for favourite songs and encourages them to experiment with different musical instruments. She enhances children's early sorting and colour matching. For example, young children respond exceptionally well to praise from her as they correctly match the plastic red key with the red bowl.

Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The childminder supports younger children extremely well as they learn new skills. For example, as children learn to walk the childminder waits for them to stand up and move on their own before offering help. Children learn superbly about diversity. For example, the childminders and assistant share stories, rhymes and food from their home countries. The childminder provides excellent ways to enhance children's understanding about the world they live in. For example, children visit local shops with shopping lists of items to find and she gives them money to pay at the till. Children learn about healthy choices. For example, at meal times they talk about where different fruit and vegetables come from and why they are good for them. They competently use knives to slice the cucumber and strawberries and pour their own drinks.

Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are fascinated by the textures and tastes of the cereals in the tray. They eagerly explore using all their senses, picking up the mix then watching as it falls back into the tray. They use precise movements with finger and thumb to pick out the circle shaped cereal to eat. Children love being physical. Younger ones hold hands with the childminder to keep their balance so they can make larger movements. Younger children talk superbly and express their needs extremely well. They point out familiar children, use words and gestures to get attention and smile when praised for finding their nappy at nappy change times. Older children show exceptional care for younger ones, helping peel bananas for them at snack time, and wait for them to take turns during activities.

Setting details

Unique reference number	EY367343
Local authority	Richmond upon Thames
Inspection number	10065592
Type of provision	Childminder
Registers	Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
Day care type	Childminder
Age range of children	0 - 8
Total number of places	6
Number of children on roll	30
Name of registered person	Waite, Wena Izelda
Date of previous inspection	10 August 2015
Telephone number	0208 288 5266

The childminder was registered in 2007. She lives in Twickenham, Middlesex, in the London Borough of Richmond. She operates all year round from 7.30am until 6pm, Monday to Friday, except for bank holidays and family holidays. She works with an assistant and her husband, who is also a childminder.

This inspection was carried out by Ofsted 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.

Any complaints about the inspection or the report should be made following the procedures set out in the guidance 'Complaints procedure: raising concerns and making complaints about Ofsted', which is available from Ofsted's website: Ofsted. If you would like Ofsted to send you a copy of the guidance, please telephone 0300 123 4234, or email enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk.

Richard Waite

Unique reference number	EY389259
Type of setting	Childminder
Inspector	Anita McKelvey
Inspection date	26 November 2018
Previous Inspection date	11 September 2015

The quality and standards of the early years provision

This inspection	Outstanding	1
Previous inspection	Good	2
Effectiveness of the leadership and management	Outstanding	1
Quality of teaching, learning and assessment	Outstanding	1
Personal development, behaviour and welfare	Outstanding	1
Outcomes for children	Outstanding	1

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is outstanding

• The childminder consistently looks for ways to enhance his excellent provision. He seeks the views of children, parents, co-childminder and assistant to identify additional resources to extend the very high-quality experiences he provides. Recent changes have included new games to encourage cooperative play and a marquee to allow play outdoors in all weathers.
• The childminder makes sure he gathers comprehensive information about what children can do when they start with him. He shares information with parents and others involved in children's care extremely well. This helps him monitor children's achievements and plan effectively to meet their needs and interests. Children make exceptional progress in their development.
• The childminder provides exciting play spaces for the children with easily accessible toys and resources. Children show high levels of confidence in making choices about how and what they want to play.
• The childminder monitors practice extremely well. He makes sure he keeps his skills up to date through continuing professional development. He is currently researching the natural world and shares this exceptionally well with the children. Children gain an excellent understanding of the wider world and respect for other living things.
• The childminder, co-childminder and assistant are excellent role models. They offer consistent, positive reminders about being kind to others and sharing toys. Children's behaviour is brilliant.

What the setting needs to do to improve further

• continue to develop the effective partnerships with parents to enhance further sharing of information about all aspects of children's learning and welfare.

Inspection activities

• The inspector observed the quality of the childminder's teaching indoors and outdoors.
• The inspector spoke with the childminder, co-childminder, assistant and the children at appropriate times during the inspection.
• The inspector took into account the views of parents through written testimonials emailed to the childminder.
• The inspector carried out a joint evaluation of children's learning with the childminder.
• The inspector sampled paperwork and online records, including policies and procedures, website, accident and medication records, and children's records.

Inspection findings

Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The childminder has added to the activities and resources in the garden to enhance physical skills and risk taking. For example, he has built a wooden fort complete with 'gadget board' on ground level for younger children to try out locks, bolts and keys, and an upper level leading to a slide for the older children. The childminder recognises that he shares information very well with parents about children's development. He is now thinking about how he can build on this even further. Arrangements for safeguarding are effective. The childminder acts quickly when accidents happen, ffering appropriate first aid and comfort. He writes up the details and shares this rapidly with parents through his online recording system. He is extremely vigilant about keeping children safe.

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder's teaching is consistently high quality. He uses innovative ways to help his co-childminder and assistant support children's learning. For example, he creates a poster for the wall showing what children have achieved and what they need to do next. He boosts children's understanding of simple mathematics extremely well. For example, as children put toy frogs into cups numbered from one to ten, he encourages them to check how many toy frogs they have put in and recognise when they have too many. The childminder encourages children to recall previous experiences. For instance, children excitedly recall a story about a toad building a road through a mountain. They work superbly with the childminder as they use a toy digger in a tray filled with dry cereal, to cover a toy tunnel with the mix to create the 'mountain'.

Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children learn how to be fair. For example, they take a vote on which story they would like to hear and listen well as the childminder reads it. The childminder supports children to understand about being kind. For instance, he asks them what they think about the rabbit in the story 'bopping' the field mice on the head, and they tell him this is not kind as it can hurt. The children agree they will, 'not ever do that', to each other. Children discover how technology works. For instance, they ask the virtual digital assistant to play a song for them, recognising that as the computer hears their voices it does what they say. All children develop exceptionally strong self-care skills and understand about healthy choices. For example, at snack time they talk about where the fruit comes from and why it is good for them. They competently use knives to cut the fruit and spoons to eat their yoghurts.

Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children readily join in different activities. Older children have fun creating obstacle courses showing excellent knowledge of managing risks as they practise balancing and climbing skills. They work fantastically together to add tyres and cushions to the course. Then show excellent turn taking and patience as they wait for others to complete the course. Younger children eagerly engage adults in their play, insisting they hold the container for them to fill. They concentrate superbly, competently using a spoon to fill the container then quickly pour out the contents and start over. Children are exceptionally well-prepared for the move into playgroup and school.

Setting details

Unique reference number	EY389259
Local authority	Richmond upon Thames
Inspection number	10065597
Type of provision	Childminder
Registers	Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
Registration category	Childminder
Age range of children	0 - 8
Total number of places	6
Number of children on roll	30
Name of registered person	Waite, Richard Lewie
Date of previous inspection	11 September 2015
Telephone number	0208 2885266

The childminder registered in 2009. He lives in Twickenham, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. He operates his service all year, excluding bank holidays and family holidays. The childminder works with a co-childminder at any one time. He is accredited to receive funding to provide free early education for children aged two, three and four years.

This inspection was carried out by Ofsted 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.

Any complaints about the inspection or the report should be made following the procedures set out in the guidance 'Complaints procedure: raising concerns and making complaints about Ofsted', which is available from Ofsted's website: Ofsted. If you would like Ofsted to send you a copy of the guidance, please telephone 0300 123 4234, or email enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk.