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Busy Bees Day Nursery at London Excel

Ofsted: Good
(Sept 2024)
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3.8(24 parent reviews) ·5 Western Gateway, Royal Victoria Docks, London, E16 1XL · Newham
Number of places
107 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Sept 2024
Local authority
Newham

About this day nursery

Busy Bees Day Nursery at London Excel, reregistered in 2002, offers full-time childcare from 8am to 6pm, all year round, catering for children aged 0-4 years. As noted in its "Good" Ofsted report from 30th September 2024, the nursery provides an ambitious learning programme that supports the individual needs and interests of all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).

Leaders are knowledgeable about supporting SEND children and work with other agencies to ensure appropriate support. The nursery fosters a welcoming environment with lively indoor and outdoor spaces designed to support age-appropriate learning.

For instance, in the outdoor area, practitioners encourage physical development by challenging young children to use bicycles and leading yoga sessions. The curriculum focuses on building children's knowledge, understanding, confidence, and positive social development.

Children form strong attachments with their key persons, who use information about their interests to plan engaging experiences. Parents commend the approachable staff, the progress their children make, and the regular updates on their child's development, which helps to extend learning at home.

The nursery also has good systems for providing nutritious meals, catering to individual dietary needs and parental preferences.

What it's like

Practitioners and leaders at this welcoming setting provide an ambitious learning programme that promotes the individual needs and interests of all children, including those with SEND. They create lively indoor and outdoor environments where children's learning is supported in an age-appropriate way. The learning programme builds on children's knowledge and understanding while promoting confidence and positive social development.

Good Ofsted ratingAll-year, full-time careSEND inclusiveLively indoor and outdoor learningNutritious mealsStrong parent partnerships

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)

Key facts

Opening hours

8am to 6pm, throughout the year

Term time / All Year

All Year

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Busy Bees Day Nursery at London Excel

Last inspected 30 September 2024 · Anne-Marie Giffts

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

Practitioners and leaders at this welcoming setting provide an ambitious learning programme that promotes the individual needs and interests of all children, including those with SEND. They create lively indoor and outdoor environments where children's learning is supported in an age-appropriate way. The learning programme builds on children's knowledge and understanding while promoting confidence and positive social development.

Inspector highlights

  • Leaders are knowledgeable about supporting children with SEND and work with other agencies to provide appropriate support.
  • Practitioners interact skilfully with toddlers and older children, encouraging confident sharing of views and ideas.
  • There are good systems in place to ensure children receive nutritious food that meets individual and dietary needs.
  • Good relationships with parents; practitioners use information from parents to plan interesting experiences.
  • Practitioners provide regular updates to parents about children's development, promoting learning at home.

Areas to develop

  • 1focus support for practitioners on building on their existing knowledge and skills to support the youngest children's communication and language skills further
  • 2improve practitioner's knowledge about the impact of overusing dummies, to further promote children's early and emergent speaking skills
  • 3strengthen children's understanding of the importance of good hygiene practices to help them to learn how to manage their good health.
Inspection #10363546 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

Parents comment that staff are approachable.

They say that they are happy with the progress their children make at the setting.

Parents praise staff for the regular updates they provide about their children's development, which helps to promote children's learning further at home.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), have experiences that promote their individual needs and interests. Leaders are knowledgeable about supporting children with SEND and work closely with other agencies to make sure that children get the appropriate support. Practitioners provide children with targeted help to enable them to make good progress in their learning.

Outdoor space

Children have access to lively environments, indoors and outdoors. In the outdoor area, practitioners encourage and challenge young children to use pedals on bicycles. They support other children to learn yoga poses in a planned group session.

Parent Reviews of Busy Bees Day Nursery at London Excel

3.8
(24)
Farcas Adrian
2 years ago

Busy Bees Excel Nursery has been a game-changer for my little one! Since starting there, she's just been all smiles. The staff is super cool and really knows how to make learning fun. I've noticed a positive shift in her happiness and enthusiasm. It's not just a daycare – it's like a second home where she's thriving. Congratulations to the Busy Bees team for creating such a good environment for our kiddos!

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Terry Wright
9 years ago

My daughter has attended Busy Bees since she was 9months old and she loves it. The staff settled her in well and met her needs. She has developed so much and has made friendships. The environment is perfect to met the childrens needs. The staff are friendly and made me feel at ease leaving her there at such a young age. I have read the other reviews and cant say how my experience is the total opposite. I have had no issues since she started and would recommend this nursery to anyone. It is well organised and a fantastic environment for children, my daughters progression says it all. And we cant thank the staff enough for taking such good care of her!

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Claire Waite
6 years ago

I am a returning parent at busy bees. My daughter was aged 12 months to age 4 here and now my son also started age 13 months and is now almost 3. I would recommend busy bees nursery I love so many things here! The food is all completely homemade from scratch and very healthy,the nursery was recently refurbished and is always very clean,and modern. Child interaction with the staff and management is really close,the staff will always go the extra mile to ensure the children are happy, you can always talk to the staff it's very open and relaxed,both of my children have learned through the nursery very quickly there are so many activtys and toys. Each room has it's own equipped garden so its ideal.for the different age groups. As a family we are all very happy here.

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Esther Oduneye
8 years ago

Good nursery! My daughter has attended since she was about 11 months old. She settled in very well and has thrived ever since. The staff are friendly, considerate and truely care about the welfare of the children. I would highly recommend this nursery.

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isatou jallow
8 years ago

STAY AWAY FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR CHILD. By far the worst nursery we have ever encountered. First appearance this nursery seem to have it all together. Great space,engaging staff, plenty of toys, an in house cook etc. But once they have lured you in under false pretences you will be wholly disappointed. Staff are disinterested in children many appear to simply be there for the pay check. The hygiene of this place is horrendous my sons milk bottle was full of mould and smelly and no one noticed this until we discovered it ourselves (he had been given milk in this bottle all along). Our son was also sick all the time, I know is common for children to be Ill while at nursery but he came back with a cough, cold and rashes all over his body. the manager attempts to be nice but fails miserably, she appears to take no joy in what she does. The other office staff have an attitude and you are lead to feel guilty for calling in checking on your child. Dont be fooled by this nursery and it's appearance ask questions and challenge them. Thankfully we removed our son from this nursery and he has started in a new nursery and he has settled in so well and the staff are on the ball all the time we could not have been happier with our choice.

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Inspection history

Date: June 2012

  • September 2024Good
  • January 2020Good
  • February 2014Good
  • June 2012Good

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