Busy Bees Nursery at Mansfield Vicar Water is part of the larger Busy Bees childcare group, which prides itself on providing comprehensive support to families through various government funding schemes. The nursery offers an all-inclusive Busy Bees One package, featuring NHS-accredited meals prepared on-site by trained chefs, ensuring children receive nutritious food, snacks, and drinks.
This package also covers essential consumables like nappies, wipes, and sun cream, aiming to simplify life for parents while guaranteeing a consistent, high-quality experience for children. The nursery emphasises that mealtimes are key learning opportunities, fostering independence, social skills, and adventurous eating habits in a supportive environment.
They are committed to helping parents navigate funded childcare options and encourage early discussions with their team to secure desired days and times, demonstrating a flexible and family-centred approach to childcare.
What it's like
From the moment children arrive, they are eager to engage in activities and interact with staff and peers, demonstrating a strong sense of safety and security. Older children are deeply engrossed in challenging activities, showing high levels of concentration and impressive language skills as they explore and learn.
Funding accepted
Busy Bees offers an all-inclusive 'Busy Bees One' package, which covers three nutritious daily meals (NHS Startwell accredited and prepared on-site), snacks, drinks, unlimited nappies, wipes, and sun cream. While they offer funded places, many families opt for this package for its value and convenience. Funded sessions are capped at ten hours per day, and the nursery does not offer childcare by the hour. Monthly invoices detail funded and non-funded hours, along with charges for food and consumables. Refunds for unused extra hours are not provided.
Food
Three nutritious, NHS Startwell accredited meals per day, freshly prepared on-site, plus snacks and drinks are included in the Busy Bees One package. Packed lunches are not permitted if opting out of the Busy Bees One package; only home-prepared hot meals are allowed.
Opening hours
Monday to Friday, 7.15am until 6pm
Term time / All Year
All Year
Last inspected 25 July 2022
What it's like to attend
From the moment children arrive, they are eager to engage in activities and interact with staff and peers, demonstrating a strong sense of safety and security. Older children are deeply engrossed in challenging activities, showing high levels of concentration and impressive language skills as they explore and learn.
Inspector highlights
Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection
their children are more excited to see their friends and staff
I think it's a water boatman because of its hard shell.
There is no water here so it must be a woodlouse, we need to search for a fact.
I need a passport to visit the continent of Africa, to visit the elephants and hippos
It is hot there so I would need sun cream for protection.
Inclusion & environment
Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities thrive at the nursery. The inspector also held a meeting with the nursery's special educational needs and disabilities coordinator to gain an understanding of how the provision meets the needs of all children.
Older children show high levels of concentration as they search for bugs outside. Pre-school children scream with delight as they slide, in cardboard boxes, down the grass slope in the garden. Toddlers whizz around on balance bikes, lifting their legs as they gain speed, and babies negotiate the steps on the slide they enjoy sliding down.
My child start nursery in feb 2023 since then she has developed very nicely and learned many beautiful things in the busy bees family. She has always been happy to go to nursery every day. I have never had any problems with the team or even with her adapting to new people. I recommend it with confidence and in the future I will return with my little one 💖
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Our little boy started at this nursery 18months ago and he loves it there. We are fortunate enough to live within walking distance and he literally goes with a hop, skip and a jump. The staff have been great since the very beginning. They are so friendly and outgoing, and we feel this has really helped with his learning and overall development. Tidy, well organised rooms with regular parent/teacher interaction and a great menu each day so he is trying different meals all the time. We would both recommend this nursery to any local parents looking into a nursery in the area. Thanks again everyone at Busy Bees!
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Our daughter started at the Vicar Water Busy Bees about six weeks ago and she's settled in so well - this has undoubtedly been helped by the wonderful staff team. Everybody takes a genuine interest in the children and are very friendly and outgoing. Our daughter loves going to Busy Bees and has such a varied range of experiences daily, it is great to see how happy she is there and how much progress she is making!
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Absoutley love busy bees in clipstone, my daughter has been going since september 2019 and she has come on so much in her learning thanks to the nursery. The staff and managers are so friendly and helpful they always give you 110% I will be gutted when my daughter has to leave to go to full time school! It's such a brilliant nursery!
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Fantastic nursery, staff are supportive, knowledgeable, welcoming and friendly. 100% recommend. My daughter loves going.
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Date: June 2011
Treetops Vicar Water registered in 2010. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday, all year round, closing only for public holidays. The nursery provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children. It employs 19 members of childcare staff, with qualifications ranging from level 2 to level 6.
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