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Honeybuns Day Nursery in Telford

Ofsted: Good
(Dec 2024)
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4.0(4 parent reviews) ·17 Whitchurch Road, Wellington, TELFORD, TF1 3DS · Telford and Wrekin
Number of places
128 places
Age range
0–5 yrs
Last inspected
Dec 2024
Local authority
Telford and Wrekin

About this day nursery

Honeybuns Nursery in Telford is the largest facility within the Honeybuns group, situated in a Grade II listed Georgian building at 17 Whitchurch Road, Wellington. The nursery is designed to cater to 128 children, offering a wide array of modern amenities.

A significant highlight is the striking orangery, which provides direct access to a secure, enclosed outdoor play area. This outdoor space is thoughtfully divided into safe zones for babies, toddlers, and pre-schoolers, ensuring age-appropriate activities and ample opportunities for fresh air and exercise.

Children can enjoy features like a sand and water area, a nature zone, an outdoor shelter with picnic tables, and various climbing frames and pedalling toys on an all-weather surface. Babies and toddlers also benefit from their own dedicated outdoor play area with a soft surface.

For parents, there is plenty of car parking available, along with a shed for pushchairs and stands for bikes, making drop-offs and pick-ups convenient. Honeybuns Telford offers flexible childcare solutions, operating from 7:30 am to 6:00 pm daily, excluding bank holidays and Christmas week.

Fees are calculated on a 52-week basis and are payable monthly in advance. The nursery requires a minimum booking of either two morning or afternoon sessions, or one full day per week.

Sibling discounts are available, and extra sessions can be booked on an ad-hoc basis, subject to availability. Funded Early Education and flexible hours are also offered.

What it's like

Children are happy, settled and content at this nursery. Staff warmly welcome children on arrival and take time to chat to them and their families. Leaders prioritise children's individual needs and implement a carefully considered key-person approach. Staff are kind, caring and considerate.

Flexible sessionsOutdoor play areasHistoric buildingSibling discounts

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds
Pricing on request

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Key facts

Opening hours

7.30am – 6.00pm Monday to Friday (Closed Bank Holidays and Christmas Week).

Term time / All Year

All Year

Established

2017

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Honeybuns Day Nursery

Last inspected 11 December 2024 · Juliette Freeman

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

What it's like to attend

Children are happy, settled and content at this nursery. Staff warmly welcome children on arrival and take time to chat to them and their families. Leaders prioritise children's individual needs and implement a carefully considered key-person approach. Staff are kind, caring and considerate.

Inspector highlights

  • Leaders support the staff team very well, and all staff and leaders are passionate about their work.
  • Leaders ensure their ethos is securely embedded and the curriculum is thoughtfully considered and structured.
  • Leaders support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities very well, with excellent partnership working and timely assessments.
  • The environment is exciting and interesting, keeping children busy, occupied, motivated, and enthusiastic to learn.
  • Staff encourage children's independence extremely well, supporting progress in self-help skills across all age groups.

Areas to develop

  • 1support staff working with the younger children to further enhance their communication and language development.
Inspection #10364248 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

parents say that they are very happy with the care and education provided at this nursery.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Leaders support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities very well. Partnership working is excellent and means that children's individual needs are nurtured and supported. Timely and prompt assessments of children's progress mean that gaps in development are highlighted quickly.

Outdoor space

When making a magic wand in the forest garden area using a wide range of natural and creative materials, children keep trying to refine their scissor skills to cut lengths of ribbon or small twigs.

Parent Reviews of Honeybuns Day Nursery

4.0
(4)
Dan Squires
7 years ago

I'll offer a counter point to the bad review below. Our little one is learning Polish and English. I really don't see language as being a barrier to the care that is given by the team here. It's widely written that a bilingual child will have a slower development in terms of speech to begin with, but will catch up later on. We use both Polish and English at home, he learns both words for everything. The team here are great with the kids and would fully recommend them as being caring, trustworthy custodians.

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Diana Gorska
8 years ago

We had to make the difficult decision to move our 1 year old from another nursery after we've learnt how poor quality of care was at this 'outstanding' facility. We chose Honeybuns and I can't even describe how wonderful all the staff have been. It was so difficult to trust someone again to look after our child but staff made the whole process so much easier. I honestly can't thank them enough for all their compassion and support. Our little one now adores her key worker and I can't believe how much confidence she's gained! Thank you!!!

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Florina Serban (Flori)
8 years ago

Hi My experience was very diferent , unfortunately after 1 week they Said That My baby at 3 years and 6 months can't adapt, and That can t do one to one ; cause is 1 chilminder FOR 8 children... So as My baby didnt follow thr rutine in 1 week they through it out; and My baby is learning romanian an english So i made them a list of words So they ll know what she sais But as i am saying she was weeing every day on The clothes as they didn t struggle to Pay attention to The romanian words; i saw when i went That The other children were hold and hugged...ITS alot to Say But I Strongly DO NOT recomand if YOU are a romanian, maybe if YOU would Pay than they will Look at your child; or if YOU are english YOU ll have noo problem. I studied 4 years teaching in college But one thing i know " FOR a child to listen YOU as a teacher need to know how to make That child listen to YOU; I will mențion That i have no problem in thr house My baby does what i am saying because i give her The time and attention she needs; I do not think is fair in 1 week to send a baby home Like That; very dissapointed ; this is your job to train The children The routine, we train them The things we do in The house and YOU should do same in nursery; THIS IS YOUR JOB

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Inspection history

Date: March 2018

  • December 2024Good
  • January 2019Good
  • March 2018Good

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