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Busy Bees Day Nursery at Colton Mill

Ofsted: Outstanding
(Feb 2024)
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5.0(11 Google reviews)
·Stile Hill Way, Leeds, LS15 9JB · Leeds
Number of places
151 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Feb 2024
Local authority
Leeds

About this day nursery

30am to 6pm. The day nursery, located in Leeds, maintains an exceptional standard of education, as affirmed by its latest Ofsted inspection on 12/02/2024, where it achieved an "Outstanding" overall rating.

Children attending Busy Bees are confident and happy, eagerly exploring their environment with the support of nurturing and caring staff. The curriculum is thoughtfully designed, ensuring children consistently build knowledge and skills.

A strong emphasis is placed on communication and language development, with opportunities woven throughout all rooms, from babies listening intently to stories to pre-school children confidently articulating their needs and wants. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) make excellent progress, benefitting from highly knowledgeable staff and a collaborative approach involving multi-agency professionals and parents.

The designated SEND coordinator works tirelessly to ensure each child receives tailored support. Physical development is encouraged through activities like yoga, and community links, such as visits from local ambulances and library buses, enrich children's learning and development.

Outdoor play is highly valued, providing rich learning experiences for all children, including those without access to a garden at home. The nursery also excels in supporting children who speak English as an additional language, using visual resources and encouraging learning songs and counting in various languages.

The inspector observed that children are highly motivated and engaged, making exceptional progress in their learning and development, attributing this to the highly attentive and encouraging staff who support children's language and imaginative play.

What it's like

Busy Bees at Colton Mill is full of confident and happy children who excitedly explore their environment, supported by nurturing and caring staff. Children are highly motivated and engaged with their chosen activity, making exceptional progress in their learning and development. Staff are highly attentive, encouraging, and support children's language and imaginative play.

Outstanding Ofsted rating0-4 age rangeAll-year provisionStrong SEND supportFocus on communicationOutdoor play opportunities

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)

Key facts

Term time / All Year

All Year

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Busy Bees Day Nursery at Colton Mill

Last inspected 12 February 2024 · Laurafay Muranka

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

What it's like to attend

Busy Bees at Colton Mill is full of confident and happy children who excitedly explore their environment, supported by nurturing and caring staff. Children are highly motivated and engaged with their chosen activity, making exceptional progress in their learning and development. Staff are highly attentive, encouraging, and support children's language and imaginative play.

Inspector highlights

  • Highly knowledgeable and passionate staff have a firm understanding of the curriculum intent, helping children to build knowledge and skills consistently.
  • Leaders and staff place a strong focus on children's developing communication and language skills, leading to rapid progress with language.
  • Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) make excellent progress, supported by highly knowledgeable staff and a collaborative approach.
  • Giving children the essential skills and knowledge they need for future success is a high priority, including physical development through yoga and community links.
  • Parents speak of the excellent service, welcoming and friendly staff, and effective communication channels like the 'ParentZone app' and parents' evenings.
Inspection #10305154 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) make excellent progress. They are supported by highly knowledgeable staff. The designated coordinator works tirelessly with multi-agency professionals, nursery staff and parents, creating a collaborative approach to children's learning. The special educational needs coordinator spoke to the inspector about how they support children with SEND.

Outdoor space

Children who do not have access to a garden enjoy using the opportunities during outdoor play. The inspector observed the quality of education being provided, indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact that this was having on children's learning.

Google Reviews of Busy Bees Day Nursery at Colton Mill

5.0
(11 Google reviews)
Jodie Day-Ford
11 months ago

We have had a wonderful experience with this nursery and were recommended it by a good friend of ours, whose children both attended. All the staff are friendly and approachable and our Son is thriving socially. It’s such a big decision to decide where to send your child and we could never have imagined that we’d find somewhere that felt so comfortable. Our son eats a wonderful variety of fresh meals and we are always kept up to date with his progress. We never have any worries leaving him there and we couldn’t recommend this nursery enough. Thank you Busy Bees Colton!!

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Ashwini Duce
a year ago

Staff are highly organised, friendly and welcoming. The place itself makes you feel safe about choosing this nursery for your little one. On site chefs make dietary concerns a high priority and your kid is taken very well. Sometimes I personally feel, my child tries a variety of food than what I try to feed at home. Overall a very well managed nursery!

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Emma Kampouraki
a year ago

Our son is about to start in January. I am leaving a 5* review already because we have been treated really nicely during the visits, I was impressed by the spaces and the organisation of the nursery and surely the process of registering our child couldn't be more straightforward. It's our first child, we haven't lived in the area for long, don't know many people with kids and it was a stressful time choosing the right nursery. I do believe we have chosen wisely. BONUS: They offer a refer a friend scheme too, which I didn't know about but you know now!!! I'll come back to update the review once our son has settled.

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Nichola Pemberton
5 years ago

Both our kids went to Busy Bees. The staff were really caring and the schedule was very flexible during holidays for us when we had the free government hours. Outdoor space is great - our kids remember the bikes and they did Spanish lessons that my youngest still sings the songs from. Loads of activities in the halls, a little library that I always used to read in to settle the kids before I dropped them off. Brilliant Christmas plays. Thanks for all you did.

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Sarah Grace
5 years ago

Our 8 year old attended Busy Bee's at Colton Mill between 9 months and 4 years old, and now our 3 year old is also currently at this nursery, having been there since he was also 9 months old. Both of our boys absolutely loved, and do love Busy Bee's. I have never once been worried or concerned when dropping the boys off and have absolute peace of mind that they are safe, well-cared for and are probably having a better time there, than they would with me! What more can a parent ask for?! The staff are great, and a lot of the team who were there when our eldest was, are still there today so surely that speaks volumes. The outdoor space is great, and I love that the food is made on-site as opposed to other nurseries where it's re-heated frozen meals. The nursery are always investing in the premises and equipment to ensure it's the best it can be. Our youngest could have started at the local Primary School pre-school nursery a few months ago but we took the conscious decision to keep him at Busy Bee's for his pre-school year as he loves it so much. Honestly, if you're considering this place, I couldn't be more glowing about the facilities, the staff etc.

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Inspection history

Date: August 2011

  • February 2024Outstanding
  • February 2018Outstanding
  • March 2014Good
  • June 2013Requires improvement
  • August 2011Good

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