Busy Bees Day Nursery at Chingford provides a nurturing and stimulating environment where children are encouraged to learn through discovery and play. The nursery focuses on developing each child's confidence and independence, with a strong emphasis on social skills and adventurous eating habits cultivated during mealtimes.
They aim to foster curiosity and a love for learning, preparing children for school by building essential skills. The nursery prides itself on its NHS-accredited menus, offering freshly prepared, nutritious meals made on-site by trained chefs as part of their Busy Bees One package, ensuring children receive well-balanced diets and experience diverse tastes.
This package also includes unlimited nappies, wipes, and sun cream at applicable centres, providing convenience for parents. Busy Bees supports various government funding schemes, including 15 and 30 hours funded childcare, and Tax-Free Childcare, helping families manage childcare costs.
The nursery offers flexibility, allowing parents to stretch funded hours across the full year or book additional non-funded hours to suit their schedules. They also provide guidance and assistance to parents navigating the application process for funded places, aiming to make quality childcare accessible and affordable for all families.
Our ethos
At Busy Bees, mealtimes are key learning moments, helping children develop confidence in exploring new tastes, handling food, and using cutlery - all essential skills for school readiness. Our diverse menus and engaging routines encourage independence, social skills, and adventurous eating habits, all in a supportive, inclusive environment.
What it's like
Children show a positive attitude to their learning and actively engage in a wide range of learning opportunities, demonstrating high levels of concentration. Staff effectively plan stimulating activities and guide children in managing their behaviour and emotions, with dedicated age-appropriate areas for emotional development.
Funding accepted
This nursery doesn't publish its fees online. Contact them directly for an up-to-date price list and availability.
Food
Three nutritious and balanced meals per day, NHS Startwell accredited menus, freshly prepared by on-site chef, a range of snacks and drinks. Unlimited nappies, wipes and sun cream also offered as part of the Busy Bees One package. Unless opting out, outside food is not allowed.
Term time / All Year
All Year
Last inspected 15 November 2022
What it's like to attend
Children show a positive attitude to their learning and actively engage in a wide range of learning opportunities, demonstrating high levels of concentration. Staff effectively plan stimulating activities and guide children in managing their behaviour and emotions, with dedicated age-appropriate areas for emotional development.
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Inclusion & environment
Children have direct access to a covered outside area from all rooms. However, staff do not consistently plan for babies to benefit from learning and playing outdoors. This means that babies are not provided with the same high-quality teaching and learning opportunities outside as they receive indoors.
My daughter has been attending the Chingford Busy Bees since she was 1 year old, and we couldn’t be happier. She absolutely loves spending time with the other children and has built wonderful relationships with her keyworkers. The care, attention, and nurturing environment they provide are fantastic. We are so grateful for all the support and encouragement she receives every day.
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I couldn’t be happier with the care provided by Busy Bees! My daughter has been attending for the past two years, and the experience has been nothing short of amazing. Before her, my son was also part of Busy Bees, and we’ve always felt completely confident in the nurturing and supportive environment they provide. The staff are warm, attentive, and genuinely care for the children, creating a safe and stimulating space where they can grow and thrive. It’s clear they go above and beyond to ensure every child is happy and engaged. I’m so grateful for the memories and milestones my family has shared with Busy Bees!
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We are extremely happy with our daughters care at busy bees Chingford. She really enjoys nursery and it's clear that she has a great bond with all of the staff in her room, who provide detailed feedback about her day as well as updating meals, sleep, bottles and nappies on the parent app. Once a week the babies have an outside company come in to do a music class which I can see my daughter loves by the photos of her dancing and engaged. My daughter is a year old, when I put soap on her hands before meal times at home she rubs her hands together, which I know she's learnt at nursery. This gives me great comfort that the staff are teaching the children important hygiene skills from a young age. It shows great inclusivity that the nursery celebrate all different types of holidays and get the children involved with fun activities and dress up days to celebrate. We also really like the fact that each age group has their own garden with age appropriate toys.
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The staff are amazing! They are very caring, responsible and polite. They give attention to each child. They have educational and entertaining activities every day and my child learnt a lot of new thing every day. My child is very happy with her teachers, she loves them and enjoys every day at the nursery.
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Shocking treatment of kids. During my child’s duration at this pathetic institution, he came back home with so many injuries. Staff are not bothered at all about the child’s welfare. The bump on his head was horrific and that was the last straw. If there is a problematic abusive child who bullies others kids, then surely the staff should keep a close eye on them. But no, the staff seemed like they are lazy and useless. Thanks God we pulled him out, it was the best decision. At the new nursery he had no injuries and staff were more loving and attentive. They also cleaned him up very well, which they didn’t do at BusyBees. At busy bees he came back so filthy. If you truly care for your child and don’t want them being injured and neglected then DON’T enrol them at this horrible place. They should be closed down!
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Date: January 2011
Busy Bees Nursery at Chingford registered in 2001. The nursery is situated on the Larkswood Leisure Park site in Chingford, Essex. It is open all year round, from 8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday. The nursery is in receipt of funding for the provision of early education for children aged two, three and four years. The nursery employs 14 staff, of whom seven hold appropriate early years qualifications.
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