Busy Bees Wandsworth Nursery Pre-School offers a nurturing and stimulating environment for young children, focusing on holistic development and preparing them for school. " This unique curriculum aims to foster curiosity, independence, and essential skills through engaging activities and experiences.
Recognising the importance of nutrition, Busy Bees Wandsworth provides an all-inclusive "Busy Bees One" package featuring NHS Startwell-accredited menus, with freshly prepared meals and snacks made on-site by trained chefs. Mealtimes are viewed as crucial learning opportunities, promoting adventurous eating habits, social skills, and the development of fine motor skills.
The nursery also offers extensive support for parents navigating childcare funding options, including various government schemes and a flexible approach to funded hours, which can be stretched across the year to accommodate different family needs. They emphasise clear communication regarding fees and funded hours, aiming to provide transparency and support for families seeking high-quality childcare.
Our ethos
Busy Bees employs a 'Bee Curious' approach, an early learning programme developed in collaboration with experts, which encourages a child-led, play-based exploration across various 'Areas of Discovery.' This unique curriculum aims to foster curiosity, independence, and essential skills through engaging activities and experiences. Mealtimes are viewed as crucial learning opportunities, promoting adventurous eating habits, social skills, and the development of fine motor skills.
What it's like
At this nursery, staff greet children with big smiles and cuddles, helping them to settle quickly and feel safe. Staff set high expectations for all children, including those with EAL and additional learning needs, encouraging them to express themselves and explore independently. Staff engage children in conversation and play, fostering curiosity and promoting language and mathematical skills.
Fees are billed monthly and childcare is not offered by the hour. An all-inclusive package option covers all freshly prepared meals, snacks, drinks, nappies, wipes, and sun cream. Government-funded sessions are capped at ten hours per day and can be stretched across the year.
Funding accepted
Good to know
Food
Three nutritious and balanced meals per day, with snacks and drinks, freshly prepared on-site by a chef. NHS Startwell accredited menus. No packed lunches are allowed, but home-prepared hot meals are permitted if opting out of the Busy Bees One package.
Opening hours
Monday to Friday, all year round, from 7.30am to 6.30pm, except public holidays
Term time / All Year
All Year
Last inspected 21 November 2023 · Marisol Hernandez-Garn
What it's like to attend
At this nursery, staff greet children with big smiles and cuddles, helping them to settle quickly and feel safe. Staff set high expectations for all children, including those with EAL and additional learning needs, encouraging them to express themselves and explore independently. Staff engage children in conversation and play, fostering curiosity and promoting language and mathematical skills.
Inspector highlights
Areas to develop
Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection
Parents praise the manager for making many positive changes since she took up the managerial role.
They describe the manager and staff as 'considerate and compassionate' professionals.
Parents feel listened to and included in their children's education.
Inclusion & environment
Staff work hard to ensure that children with additional learning needs have the right support to help them succeed. The special educational needs coordinator (SENCo) works closely with parents and outside agencies to create an effective learning environment.
The manager acknowledges that the curriculum for outdoors is not planned and sequenced as well as possible. This means some children do not fully benefit from the learning experiences available.
All the staff are wonderful and you can tell they all genuinely adore children and want the best for each of them. I found sending our baby to nursery very hard and I was met with nothing but kindness and compassion and the staff bent over backwards to make my experience as easy as possible. The activities they do at nursery are very engaging and every day is different. I can already see the positive influences that nursery is having on my child. Our baby is now very very content there, running to certain members of staff for cuddles during drop off and waving goodbye and blowing kisses to all staff during pick up. They’ve been super lovely when I’ve got held up at work and I know he’s in great hands. Updates are regular and I love to see the pictures come through. Really, hand on heart - a lovely nursery.
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I really recommend Busy Bee Wandsworth as everything keeps me a peace of mind while I am working, starting from the nursery staff which are really helpful,entertain,take care of my baby, to the daily meals plans. In the app they updated everything on you baby , sharing some pictures and videos as well. Really happy that I chose this Nursery.
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I had a TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE with the nursery. My daughter attended for a month and cried every day before going, and when we picked her up she was sad. This is unusual behavior for her, as we changed nursery and she goes there very happily. Furthermore, she only attended for a month and we had several incidents; she arrived with a cut on her mouth, they didn't report anything, I sent an email and inquired via the app's chat, as instructed, with no response. In the end, she had three accidents where she got hurt in just one month, which shows me a lack of attention to the children. Besides that, they lost clothes... In short, mothers and fathers, don't trust this nursery with your children; and unfortunately I saw many children crying when I left my daughter there
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Amazing nursery. The entire team are so kind and engaging with all children. My daughter loves every minute of it and is always sad to leave; every parent's dream. Activities are both fun, engaging and educationally appropriate. The nursery is always clean and has a lovely ambiance
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Our baby loves it at Busybees Wandsworth Nursery. He's been attending from the age of one and every morning he enters the baby room he runs off! no tears of parting ways are shed. Then on pickups he still has a happy face. Our main priority is our son’s happiness and Busy Bees and all the staff in the baby room do just that. But a special mention to the lovely Deputy manager -the first staff member our son met and gravitated to! Overall lovely caring and extremely friendly staff across the entire nursery whom my son have encountered thus far. They have gotten to know our son and anticipate his every need. what more can we ask for! Our son has developed grown and learnt so much in less than a year! Brilliant nursery and amazing staff! Would definitely recommend
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Date: July 2012
Busy Bees Day Nursery at Wandsworth registered in 2004. The nursery employs 30 members of childcare staff, with two holding appropriate early years qualifications at level 6 (one with QTS) and 12 with qualifications at level 2 or level 5. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday, all year round, from 7.30am to 6.30pm, except public holidays, and provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.
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