Opening hours
Monday to Friday, 7.30am until 5.30pm, all year.
Busy Bodies Child Care Centre
Ofsted: Outstanding
(Aug 2022)
Number of places
22 places
Age range
0–5 yrs
Last inspected
Aug 2022
Local authority
Shropshire
About this day nursery
Busy Bodies Child Care Centre, established in 2018 in Ludlow, provides outstanding childcare for children aged 0-7 years. 30pm, the nursery offers a welcoming and positive environment where children build strong bonds with staff, fostering a sense of safety and security.
This secure attachment is key to the excellent progress children make, thriving in an atmosphere where their well-being is paramount. The nursery is known for its ambitious and innovative outdoor curriculum, further enhanced by a newly extended outdoor space.
Children are encouraged to spend much of their day outside, developing large-muscle skills through climbing, balancing, and running, and engaging in imaginary play. The staff nurture individual personalities, especially babies, providing flexible settling-in sessions and consistent care during transitions between rooms.
The curriculum is clear and well-sequenced, with the manager working alongside staff to build upon children's learning and incorporate their interests. This approach, combined with excellent teaching, ensures children are eager to explore and experiment, from participating in arts and music festivals to engaging in extra-curricular activities like yoga and dance.
Parents consistently praise the staff as "amazing" and "nurturing," admiring the nursery's commitment to communication and involving them in every step of their child's learning journey.
What it's like
Children excitedly enter the welcoming nursery environment, building exceptionally strong bonds with staff and feeling safe and secure. Staff nurture individual personalities, especially babies, providing flexible settling-in and consistent care when moving rooms. Children make excellent progress due to secure attachments with staff, thriving in a positive environment where they are at the heart of every aspect of their well-being, and demonstrating confidence and independence in learning, including using real tools outdoors.
Strong bonds with staffOutstanding outdoor provisionAmbitious curriculumExcellent teachingCommunity-focusedFlexible settling-in
Pricing & funding
Funding accepted
15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds
Key facts
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating for Busy Bodies Child Care Centre
Last inspected 2 August 2022
Overall effectiveness
Outstanding
Quality of education
Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding
What it's like to attend
Children excitedly enter the welcoming nursery environment, building exceptionally strong bonds with staff and feeling safe and secure. Staff nurture individual personalities, especially babies, providing flexible settling-in and consistent care when moving rooms. Children make excellent progress due to secure attachments with staff, thriving in a positive environment where they are at the heart of every aspect of their well-being, and demonstrating confidence and independence in learning, including using real tools outdoors.
Inspector highlights
- Staff plan and provide an extremely clear and well-sequenced curriculum that the manager monitors as he works alongside them, building on children's learning, using their interests to excite and inspire them.
- Management and staff create an inspirational environment where children are eager to explore and experiment, engaging in arts and music festivals, and being at the heart of the community.
- Outdoor provision offers an ambitious and innovative curriculum with a newly extended outdoor space that further extends imaginary play for children of all ages, allowing them to spend much of their day outside, playing enthusiastically and developing large-muscle skills.
- Teaching is excellent, and staff never miss an opportunity to extend children's vocabulary, using new words and meaningful questions to support thought processes, with extra-curricular activities like yoga and dance providing opportunities to develop skills for future learning.
- The manager fosters a culture of reflective practice, regularly improving the provision to ensure children excel from their experiences, and engaging staff and parents for continued nursery development.
Areas to develop
- 1continue to enhance the systems for monitoring staff members' practice to consistently encourage and sustain the already outstanding teaching practice.
Inspection #10191255 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
What parents say
Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection
Parents find staff 'amazing' and 'nurturing'.
They say the nursery's efforts to communicate and involve parents in every step of their child's learning are admirable.
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
Outdoor space
Outdoor provision offers an ambitious and innovative curriculum. A newly extended outdoor space further extends imaginary play for children of all ages. Children choose to spend much of their day outside and develop their large-muscle skills as they climb, balance and run in the large outdoor space.
Parent Reviews of Busy Bodies Child Care Centre
5.0
(18)
Kimberley Winch
11 months ago
I absolutely cannot fault the staff at Busy Bodies in both rooms. They’ve been fantastic throughout my son’s autism journey - providing any information and support that they can to help with the SEN fight. The staff are lovely and they have always paired my children with their key workers perfectly. Their outside space is brilliant, providing a lot of education and excitement for the children. They have always ensured that my son has the care and support that he needs with his SEN and my daughter is very happy with her key worker upstairs in the caterpillars room. I wouldn’t take my children anywhere else!
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Martina Danova
11 months ago
The most amazing place for my children. All the ladies are brilliant! We have been using Busy Bodies as a nursery, preschool/afterschool and holiday club for last 10 years, honestly, this place cannot be faulted in any way. The feeling of relief knowing your children are taken care of so well, entertained and educated in totally safe environment by such excellent staff is priceless. Thank you!!!
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Amy Smith
11 months ago
Busy Bodies is a wonderful place, the setting is a great learning environment and the outdoor area is fantastic. The staff are very caring and go out of their way to support and encourage the children. I wouldn't send my children anywhere else, I can't recommend this nursery enough The best decision I made.
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Matt Roper
11 months ago
Our son has just started going to Busy Bodies Nursery. He is our first child and has Down syndrome therefore we were quite nervous about him starting nursery. Kirsty and her team have been so patient, kind and caring making the transition as easy as possible. They really do go above and beyond… Kirsty has even gone into nursery on her day off to show others exactly how to feed him. We get loads of updates about his day including gorgeous photos of our son with the staff and his friends.
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Emma S
11 months ago
Wonderfully supportive nursery for my 1 year old. It's a real comfort to see staff looking forward to seeing my daughter and investing in their relationship with her. She's a happy and confident girl at nursery which tells you all you need to know!
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Inspection history
Most recent inspection
2 August 2022
Only one graded inspection on record — a trend chart will appear here once a second graded report is published.
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