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Busy Bees Day Nursery at Bristol Stoke Gifford

Ofsted: Good
(Jan 2025)
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4.9(15 parent reviews) ·Simmonds View, Stoke Gifford, BRISTOL, BS34 8HL · South Gloucestershire
Number of places
109 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jan 2025
Local authority
South Gloucestershire

About this day nursery

Busy Bees Day Nursery at Bristol Stoke Gifford, established in 2004, provides childcare for children aged 0-4 years. 30am to 6pm, offering consistent care for families.

The curriculum is thoughtfully designed to provide a wide range of experiences, with a particular focus on fostering communication, language, and literacy skills, often through engaging activities with books. Staff are skilled at motivating children to participate fully, reinforcing their learning and introducing new vocabulary.

For instance, pre-schoolers use mathematical language while measuring, and babies develop small-muscle skills through exploration with insightful commentary from staff. The nursery effectively supports children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) by working closely with parents to secure additional funding and collaborating with other agencies to ensure individual needs are met.

This commitment to inclusive provision was noted during the inspection, which included professional discussions with the special educational needs coordinator. Children are encouraged to confidently lead their learning within a well-organised environment, which allows them to explore and extend their ideas.

This Bristol Stoke Gifford setting received an overall rating of 'Good' at its latest Ofsted inspection on 07/01/2025.

What it's like

Children engage well in all aspects of their learning, with a strong focus on developing communication, language and literacy skills through books. Staff motivate young children to engage fully, reinforcing their learning and introducing new vocabulary. Pre-school children use mathematical language and work together in activities, while babies explore and develop small-muscle skills with good commentary from staff.

Well-designed curriculumStrong focus on communicationEffective SEND supportChildren lead learningGood behaviour expectationsEffective key-person system

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)

Key facts

Opening hours

7.30am to 6pm all year round, excluding bank holidays

Term time / All Year

All Year

Established

2004

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Busy Bees Day Nursery at Bristol Stoke Gifford

Last inspected 7 January 2025

Safeguarding effective
Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good

What it's like to attend

Children engage well in all aspects of their learning, with a strong focus on developing communication, language and literacy skills through books. Staff motivate young children to engage fully, reinforcing their learning and introducing new vocabulary. Pre-school children use mathematical language and work together in activities, while babies explore and develop small-muscle skills with good commentary from staff.

Inspector highlights

  • The curriculum is well designed and provides a broad and balanced range of experiences for children to enjoy.
  • Staff focus keenly on assessing children's progress and identifying any gaps in their learning.
  • Children confidently lead their learning around a well-organised environment, which provides opportunities for children to extend their ideas.
  • Children understand behaviour expectations and boundaries and are kind to each other.
  • The key-person system is effective and staff know their children well, working closely with parents to help children settle quickly.

Areas to develop

  • 1engage all parents in sharing information about their children's care, learning and development to enable more consistency in meeting children's needs
  • 2improve the consistency in opportunities for staff to develop their personal effectiveness
  • 3review the organisation of lunchtime transitions to enable children to remain focused and engaged in their learning.
Inspection #10379472 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Staff work closely with parents to gain additional funding and liaise well with other agencies to bring about essential support to meet individual children's needs. Inspectors discussed children's learning and how staff support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, and conducted professional discussions with the special educational needs coordinator.

Parent Reviews of Busy Bees Day Nursery at Bristol Stoke Gifford

4.9
(15)
Jo D
5 years ago

Both children have attended BusyBees Stoke Gifford and have both been cared for in such a fantastic way. The staff are amazing and have supported them through all stages especially recently in covid times. Staff recognise interests and use these to stretch and challenge the children with numeracy and literacy skills. You can often walk past nursery and see the staff running around with the children and the children laughing and giggling. I really cannot fault this nursery and have recommended them many times.

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Alain Castle
4 years ago

Great Nursery. Both our children are members here and the staff are professional, kind, polite and responsive and our kids both seem very happy.

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rony abdullah35
3 years ago

My niece goes to this preschool. They take care of babies in a congenial way.

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Inspection history

Date: March 2010

  • January 2025Good
  • November 2022Good
  • December 2016Outstanding
  • March 2014Good
  • June 2013Good
  • March 2010Good

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