Recommendations in recent Ofsted inspections for childminders in Shropshire

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

       June 2024:

• Enhance partnerships with parents to share information about children routinely on a daily basis.
• Provide more opportunities for children to explore their creativity and develop their own ideas in their play.

• Allow children more time to process new language narrated to them to build on
  links between words and their meaning.
• Support children to independently access what they need by reviewing the
  organisation of the resources.
• Share the detailed information known about children's progress and next steps
  with teachers when children first start school in order to help to promote
  continuity in their future learning.
• Enhance the already good teaching to tailor activities to support further the
  different learning needs of children of different ages and stages of development,
  specifically during whole-group activities.
• Provide children with more opportunities to build on their respect and
  understanding of the similarities and differences between themselves and others
  in the wider community.
• Enhance teaching practice and consider further ways to extend children's
  learning as far as possible.
• Further develop the curriculum for mathematics to build on children's knowledge
  of mathematical concepts and vocabulary.
• Extend understanding of how to support children's mathematical development to help them to gain a breadth of knowledge that will give them a secure foundation in number.
• Provide targeted teaching and support to challenge children and help them to progress even further with managing their feelings and behaviour.