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Queen Bee's Day Nursery

Ofsted: Good
(Feb 2025)
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4.0(8 parent reviews) ·316-318 London Road, Benfleet, SS7 5XR · Essex
Number of places
55 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Feb 2025
Local authority
Essex

About this day nursery

Queen Bee's Day Nursery, located in Benfleet, Essex, is dedicated to fostering an environment where young minds are inspired towards a journey of endless achievement. The nursery caters to children from infancy to preschool age, with dedicated rooms for different developmental stages: 'Baby Bees' for 0-2 years, 'Bumble Bees' for 2-3 years, and 'Busy Bees' for 3-5 years.

The nursery offers a stimulating and engaging environment with a focus on physical development through its vibrant indoor soft play area, which includes a ball pit, balancing equipment, and sensory items. Beyond structured play, Queen Bee's incorporates extra-curricular activities like Jo Jingles sessions twice a week, providing music and movement tailored for children aged 0-5.

The facility prides itself on encouraging outdoor play and garden time, alongside various arts and crafts and cooking activities, ensuring a well-rounded experience for each child. Parents consistently praise the nursery for its loving, caring, and encouraging staff, often describing the environment as an extension of their family.

What it's like

The management and their team provide children with a clean, bright and welcoming environment. Children are greeted with genuine warmth and kindness by staff and are supported as they register their attendance. They are eager to learn, settling quickly and becoming engrossed in activities tailored to their interests and developing needs, including seasonal topics and science.

Indoor soft play areaJo Jingles music and movementDedicated age-specific roomsFocus on physical and creative development

Pricing & funding

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Key facts

Age range

0-5 years

Term time / All Year

All Year

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Queen Bee's Day Nursery

Last inspected 18 February 2025

Overall effectiveness
Good

What it's like to attend

The management and their team provide children with a clean, bright and welcoming environment. Children are greeted with genuine warmth and kindness by staff and are supported as they register their attendance. They are eager to learn, settling quickly and becoming engrossed in activities tailored to their interests and developing needs, including seasonal topics and science.

Inspector highlights

  • Quality of teaching is good, with an interesting and varied curriculum.
  • Children's speech and language development is good, and they have opportunities to learn French.
  • Children participate in organised, interactive singing sessions weekly, using instruments and props.
  • The management team are passionate about their role and committed to improving outcomes for children through professional development opportunities for staff.
  • Children learn the skills needed for early writing and the importance of staying safe and healthy through daily routines.

Areas to develop

  • 1provide support and training opportunities for staff to ensure they plan a curriculum that offers sufficient challenge for the most able children
  • 2improve the organisation of transition times to provide all children with consistent opportunities to be fully engaged in their learning
  • 3review the space for babies so that they have a cosy area to relax in and can help themselves to resources to explore and develop their own play and ideas.
Inspection #10372268 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

Parents speak highly of all aspects of the nursery.

They comment on the professional and committed management and feel they are fully supported and listened too.

Parents say their children make good progress as a result of attending the nursery.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

An effective key-person system ensures that the staff know children well. Babies' individual routines are followed to ensure they feel safe and secure. They are offered comforters from home and are soothed as they receive cuddles and reassurance when they become tired or upset.

Outdoor space

Children can access writing materials to use in their play and have opportunities to make marks as they use large chalks in the garden, drawing patterns on the wall. They also develop physical skills as they run and jump in a soft play room, negotiating space so as not to bump into their friends, and use parachutes and obstacle courses to strengthen balance.

Parent Reviews of Queen Bee's Day Nursery

4.0
(8)
Ann Starling
4 years ago

Queen Bees Nursery ha e been so generous in allowing a local football team to use their bus to get the boys to their tournament over the weekend. Such an amazing gesture and a wonderful service to the community. Thank you so much.

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Lisa Howard
6 years ago

This Nursey have been amazing, I had to find somewhere for my 4 month old fast. They were so accommodating and caring. He smiles everyday going in, all the staff and children seem so Happy to be there. It is a lovely, light and bright, but most importantly Happy Nursey. They have done so much with him even though he is little. Potato painting and playing with all sorts, even cooking. Could not ask for more.

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Andy Le Marie
4 years ago

A massive thank you to Queen Bee's day nursery for lending us their mini bus to take Leigh Rockets upto Gt Yarmouth for a football tournament. The boys loved it and was buzzing.... thanks a million Andy, parents and the boys.

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Jenna Medlock
7 years ago

The manager is very accomodating and polite the staff are extremely polite . The buildings cleanliness is to a high standatd and there levels of security. They have a soft play room and even down to there food is a very specialised healty good meals set daily.

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Inspection history

Date: April 2019

  • February 2025Good
  • April 2019Good

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About the setting

Queen Bee's Day Nursery registered in 2017 and is situated in Benfleet, Essex. It operates Monday to Friday from 7am until 7pm, all year round, except bank holidays. It provides government-funded early education for all eligible children and has 17 members of childcare staff, 12 of whom hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3.

URN
EY550240
Registered person
Queen Bee's Day Nursery Ltd
Day care type
Full day care
Register
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register
Establishment type
Childcare on non-domestic premises

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