Busy Bees Day Nursery at Salisbury offers a high-quality childcare experience focused on enriching children's development and making life easier for parents. The nursery is part of Busy Bees One, a programme that provides NHS-accredited, freshly prepared meals and snacks, promoting nutritional consistency and adventurous eating habits.
This integrated approach to mealtimes supports children's confidence in exploring new tastes and developing essential skills like using cutlery, contributing to their school readiness. Beyond nutrition, the nursery fosters curiosity, independence, and social skills within a supportive environment.
They pride themselves on having caring staff who are passionate about early years education, offering personalised care and engaging activities that cater to each child's individual needs and interests. The nursery aims to create a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere where children can thrive, learn, and develop at their own pace, supported by a rich curriculum and a strong emphasis on well-being.
They also offer flexible funding options, helping parents navigate the complexities of childcare costs with stretched funding across the year and additional support to ensure families can access the care they need.
What it's like
Children thrive at this well-established nursery, arriving eager to learn and thoroughly enjoying a stimulating range of interesting resources and thoughtfully planned activities. Staff are dedicated to finding out as much as possible about each child, offering tailored support and learning to ensure all children flourish. Children love attending, feel safe and secure, and are exceptionally well behaved, showing respect for others and using good manners.
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. No packed lunches allowed, except for home-prepared hot meals if opting out of the Busy Bees One package.
Term time / All Year
All Year
Last inspected 5 May 2022
What it's like to attend
Children thrive at this well-established nursery, arriving eager to learn and thoroughly enjoying a stimulating range of interesting resources and thoughtfully planned activities. Staff are dedicated to finding out as much as possible about each child, offering tailored support and learning to ensure all children flourish. Children love attending, feel safe and secure, and are exceptionally well behaved, showing respect for others and using good manners.
Inspector highlights
Inclusion & environment
Staff are dedicated to finding out as much as possible about each child and offering them tailored support and learning. This ensures that all children flourish, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Staff know children exceptionally well and use what they know to tailor the provision for each child, including those with SEND. Staff are skilled at adapting their practice and working very closely with other agencies where necessary, to meet children's individual needs, such as children's centres, Portage, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists and the local authority. The special educational needs coordinator spoke to the inspector about how they support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
The inspector observed the quality of education being provided, indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact that this was having on children's learning. Children relish exploring the stimulating and interesting environment, which is thoughtfully planned to take account of their interests and to spark their curiosity.
We have loved sending our son here. They were so helpful in helping him become comfortable when we first transitioned into nursery. He was very unsure about it when we first started but they were so kind and patient with him and he absolutely loves nursery now. Communication is great and I love receiving pictures from his day. We get updates about his day when we pick him up. They have handled everything with the Covid19 situation brilliantly. We absolutely recommend Salisbury Busy Bees to anyone looking for quality childcare!
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We have been so delighted by the whole team at Busy Bees Salisbury. We had to find new childcare very quickly at the start of COVID when the Nursery our twins were in shut and we needed to keep working. It was really difficult circumstances in which to have to switch settings but Busy Bees were so incredibly supportive and brilliant with both our children and us. To our complete surprise both children settled incredibly quickly and were almost immediately far happier than at their original setting; I am confident this was because of the wonderful support and attention they received in those early days. Our experience has gone from strength to strength since. Busy Bees facilitate a wonderful programme of activities for the children which combines fun and education perfectly. The team have a superb knowledge of the individual characteristics and needs of each of our children ensuring they can bring the best out in them. The staff are incredibly professional, caring and motivated and always take time to explain what our children have been doing each day and why. Furthermore Busy Bees provide tasty meals cooked on site which provide a varied and healthy diet and which our children love. All in all we are delighted, incredibly thankful that something so positive came out of the forced move and would wholeheartedly recommend Busy Bees to other families.
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Great nursery with passionate and caring team. Highly recommend to anyone, we love it there.
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Best nursery in Salisbury, I definitely recommend it! 👌
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Date: March 2004
Busy Bees Day Nursery at Salisbury opened in 2003. The nursery opens five days a week all year round, from 7am until 7pm, closing for bank holidays. The nursery is in receipt of funding for the provision of free early education sessions for children aged two, three and four years. The nursery currently employs 14 staff who work directly with children. All but two have relevant childcare qualifications.
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