Busy Bees Day Nursery at London Excel
Good★ 3.9 on GoogleBirth to 5Open for decades
A day nursery in London for children from birth to 5, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They do not publish prices, so that is the first thing to ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in September 2024. Open since 2002, with 107 places.
What you might pay
This setting does not publish its fees, and no national dataset holds them. This is what childcare costs across the council, as a starting point for the call.
What childcare usually costs in Newham
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Newham from the Department for Education's 2025 provider survey. No national data holds what an individual nursery charges, so ring and ask.
Places, hours and the day
Who they take, when they are open, and what a day there includes.
Where it is
E16 1XLWhat the inspector found
One grade is one visit. A run of them tells you whether it has been good for years or has only just got there.
Ofsted inspector, 30 September 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Practitioners and leaders in this welcoming setting have an ambitious learning programme in place. This ensures that all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), have experiences that promote their individual needs and interests. For example, children have access to lively environments, indoors and outdoors. Practitioners plan and lay out the environments well to support children's learning in an age-appropriate way. For example, practitioners support children's physical development. In the outdoor area, practitioners encourage and challenge young children to use pedals on bicycles. They support other children to learn yoga poses in a planned group session. Overall, the learning programme builds on children's knowledge and understanding.
Practitioners promote children's confidence and unique characters. Children build attachments with their key persons, who know them well. Practitioners find out what children enjoy doing and their likes and dislikes. They use this information to plan experiences for children. Practitioners are good role models and help children to understand the behaviour that they expect of them. The interactions between them are polite, warm and positive. Children learn how to behave well and treat each other with respect. For example, children collaborate with each other as they share and ask each other for resources.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- focus support for practitioners on building on their existing knowledge and skills to support the youngest children's communication and language skills further n improve practitioner's knowledge about the impact of overusing dummies, to further promote children's early and emergent speaking skills n strengthen children's understanding of the importance of good hygiene practices to help them to learn how to manage their good health.
- 30 September 2024Good
- 31 January 2020Good
- 20 February 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Busy Bees Day Nursery at London Excel
- What it costs
- Funded hours
- Youngest age taken
- Meals
- Nappies
- Waiting list
No dataset holds any of this. Two parents telling us the same thing puts it on the page for whoever looks next.
What to ask them
None of this is in any national dataset and this setting has not published it, which is exactly why it is worth asking.
- What does it cost, all in? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- Can I use my funded hours here? Whether they stretch them over the year, and the minimum days you have to book.
- Is there a place for my child's age? Baby rooms fill first and waiting lists are common.
- Who would my child's key person be? And how long have the staff been there. No dataset holds this and it matters more than anything above.
- Can I visit at a busy time? Mid-morning on a weekday tells you far more than an empty room after hours.
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