Pippa Williams Cynthia David

1. Preparing for Ofsted Early Years Inspection Session 1 Pippa Williams Cynthia David

2. To understand and be able to demonstrate how you are meeting the EYFS Welfare and Safeguarding and Learning and Development Requirements To know how to demonstrate good practice during your Inspection To put an action plans in place to meet the EYFS requirements and be prepared for your Ofsted Inspection. Aims of the Session

3. Activity You have been given a card, on your card there is an aspect of an area of learning? Which area of learning are you? Find the other aspects in the area of learning? This is your group for discussion (use the Development Matters to help)

4. Activity • Now in your groups share the 3 activities that you do promote this aspect of the area of learning with a two year old. • Feedback………….

5. http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/right-start-early-years-good-practice-films-childminders-home-readinghttp://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/right-start-early-years-good-practice-films-childminders-home-reading

6. Inspections now focus on • Depth and breadth of what you provide across the seven areas of learning, and the extent of whether what you provide is interesting and challenging experiences that meet the needs of all children.

7. New focus on Teaching –what does that mean? • Inspectors will now focus on the quality of "teaching" The New Framework states teaching is a broad term which covers the many different ways in which adults help young children learn. • It includes your interactions with children during planned and child-initiated play and activities: communicating and modelling language, showing, explaining, demonstrating, exploring ideas, encouraging, questioning, recalling, providing a narrative for what children are doing, facilitating and setting challenges. • It takes account of the equipment provided and the attention to the physical environment as well as the structure and routines of the day that establish expectations. • Integral to teaching is how childmindersassess what children know, understand and can do as well as take account of their interests and dispositions to learning (characteristics of effective learning), and use this information to plan children’s next steps in learning and monitor their progress.

8. Quality Interactions…. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joqVklnnPoY&list=PLtZBxroH-K1OAYPvnTaUljk46eyz6Hv-B&index=4

9. What's changed??? • Early years providers are now subject to a tougher early years inspection framework, which makes clear that only provision that is good or outstanding is good enough for young children.

10. Satisfactory is now “Requires Improvement” what's changed… • Ofsted monitor settings judged as requires improvement within six months of the date of the inspection and re-inspect within 12 months of the date of the inspection. • Ofsted publish monitoring letters after each monitoring visit. • Settings which has been judged as ‘requires improvement ‘at two consecutive inspections and is still not ‘good ‘at its third inspection is likely to be judged inadequate.

11. Inadequate judgment-what’s changed? • Ofsted monitor inadequate provision as a minimum at three-monthly intervals. During the monitoring process Ofsted may take further enforcement action if there is no improvement. • Ofsted publish monitoring letters after each monitoring visit. • Ofsted re-inspect inadequate provision within six months of the date of the inspection. • If the provision is still inadequate we may decide to take steps to cancel registration.

12. Complaint Inspections…what’s changed? • Ofsted will now carry out a full inspection when they receive information that suggests they might not be meeting requirements, or bring the Inspection forward • Ofsted may inspect childminders with no notice where we have received information that suggests children may be at risk

13. What's changed about the Inspection….. • Majority of the inspection is spent in direct observation of what children are doing, how well you care for the children, and the impact of what you do on children’s learning and development. • During the inspection, the inspector will speak to any parents available, for example, when they are dropping off or collecting children from the provision.

14. discuss What is the purpose of inspection?

15. The purpose of the inspection is to evaluate the quality and standards of children’s care, learning and development, and the progress children make towards the early learning goals in line with the principles and requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). Where you are also registered on the Childcare Register, the inspection will check whether you meet the requirements of the register. It will not evaluate the quality of your provision in respect of this register. The requirements of the Childcare Register are available in Factsheet: childcare – requirements for the Childcare Register: childminders and home childcarers(reference no: 080161), Ofsted 2010; http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/factsheet-childcare-requirements-for-childcare-register-childminders-and-home-childcarers; What is the purpose of the inspection?

16. Ofsted will inspect your provision at least once within the inspection cycle. The next inspection cycle will end on 31 July 2016. Newly registered early years providers are normally inspected about six to seven months after registration, if they have children on roll. THERE ARE NO LONGER DUE DATES FOR INSPECTIONS When will the inspection take place?

17. Ofsted receive information that suggests a provider might not meeting the requirements of the EYFS • the last inspection concluded that the quality of care and education was inadequate • the provider has been judged as requires improvement or satisfactory at the previous two inspections and has shown no evidence of improvement • Ofsted receive information that suggests a significant change to the provision such as: in the case of childminders, a change of premises • Ofsted have concluded an investigation into potential non-compliance. OFSTED will prioritise inspections where:

18. - • There will be no notice Inspection if they receive information or a complaint about the childminder • Ofsted usually telephones the childminder to check children are attending or the provision is operating that day. Inspectors do not give you the actual date of inspection. • Childminding inspections take about two to four hours or longer. Do I get notice and How long do inspections take?

19. What’s in the EYFS? http://www.4children.org.uk/Resources/Detail/Full-Resource-Pack-Statutory-Framework-for-the-EYFS-2012 http://www.foundationyears.org.uk/eyfs-2014/ http://www.foundationyears.org.uk/early-years-foundation-stage-2012/ • What you have to do by law • non statutory guidance for • practitioners • A know How Guide • The non statutory guidance • material support practitioners • in implementing eyfs • Statutory framework for EYFS • Early Years Outcomes • The EYFS Progress check at age two • Development Matters in the EYFS

20. You will need to calculated the numbers of children you can care for using the EYFS Space requirements which are set out in EYFS Page 24 paragraph 3.56 (please note this does not include kitchen, storage, thorough fares). To calculate the numbers of children use the following guide and example. Playroom clear space available—2.5mtrs x 2.5mtrs=6.25 square metres divide by 2.5 = 2 x(2 yr olds) The maximum number of children will be 2 -2yr olds in this space You will need to include your own children under 8 yrs in the space. If you care for any children aged eight and over this may affect the number of children you can care for under eight. EYFS Space Requirements

21. Are You Ready for Your Inspection Evaluation Schedule for Inspection 2012 Conducting Early Years Inspections Ofsted regulation and inspection Early Years Register Sept 2012 common questions Links to Documents that will help you to prepare:

22. how well the early years provision meets the needs of the range of children who attend-(pg 8) LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT • the contribution of the early years provision to children’s well-being (pg 11) CHILDREN’S WELL BEING • the leadership and management of the early years provision.(pg 14) ORGANISATION Three main Inspection Judgements

23. Activity The following questions will be used by the Inspector to gather evidence on the day of the Inspection. Read the questions and think about what type of evidence you could provide on the day. Write up your ideas on post it notes How can you provide evidence for your Inspection?

24. 1. How can you show that you know the children have made progress, what evidence do you have to demonstrate this? Profiles, discussions, tracking sheets, two year old checks, review forms, starting points, next steps, interests, parent’s involvement in learning, plans that cover the 7 areas of learning, observations, Observations of your practice—supports next steps, covers ELG, shows impact on child’s development. How can you demonstrate that you use EYFS development matters to support children learning using examples of the children in your care? Observations, tracking sheets, discussions, plans for activities, activities that support children to make progress across the ELG 3. How can you show that you have high expectations of the children in your care? Challenge appropriately, work in partnership with parents-continue at home/cm/other settings How you support children's Learning and Development

25. 5. What evidence is there that you listen perceptively to children, skilfully ask questions to support learning/to reshape tasks? Think about what questions you will ask, what key words you will use, giving opportunities to THINK , modelling language, not constant, giving children space to talk, listening carefully, Open ended questions such as..What do you think…, How did you?.....What happens next? ……Tell me about your picture. What else can you do with the play dough? Why do you think this happened? What do you think would happen if. . . ? Is there another way to . . . ? Do you provide children with explanations to improve their learning? Key words, tuning in, listening to children, scaffolding learning, sustained shared thinking …… 7. How do you support children’s secure attachment in your care, can you demonstrate this? Emotional support, tuning in, role play, stories, persona dolls, Settling in, transitions, home visits, partnership with parents, sharing progress with parents, parent contributions, consistency, routines, warmth, How you support children’s Learning and Development

26. Think of an activity in pairs that you could use with your children on the Inspection day and explain the learning outcomes, and how you would support learning through questioning and modelling and extending language. Are the children interested/challenged/keen learners?

29. Examples of Recommendations from recent childminders Inspections improve the planning of challenging learning experiences across the seven areas of learning by taking into account the individual needs, interests and stage of development of each child. encourage parents to regularly contribute to their child's learning and development record. build on systems for self-evaluation taking further account of the views of parents to support and develop areas to improve observe children to understand their level of achievement, interests and learning styles, and then plan learning experiences for each child reflecting those observations. support children's increasing independence by labelling resources with words and pictures so that children can easily identify what is available for them develop further systems for self-evaluation to identify strengths and weaknesses and to include the views of parents and children develop further systems that support parents in contributing to and keeping in touch with their child's learning and development. display photographs of children's family, other special people and experiences that children engage in. use pictures or shapes of objects to indicate where things are kept and to encourage children to work out where things belong.

30. How did you get on? SHARING……. Using the Characteristics for Effective Learning, Dev. Matters plan two activities, think about how you would support children’s learning, key words, extend language, use open ended questions, create the environment, etc. For next week bring in one of your profile books or a sample of your observations/2 yr check/tacking sheet Homework