Busy Bees Day Nursery at Shrewsbury
Outstanding★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in Shrewsbury for children from birth to 8+, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They do not publish prices, so that is the first thing to ask. Rated Outstanding by Ofsted in August 2022. Open since 2015, with 119 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 Shropshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Shropshire 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
SY2 6LGWhat 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.
- 15 July 2025 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 15 August 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children thrive in this outstanding nursery. Babies and children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), make exceptional progress. They gain an excellent range of knowledge and skills that prepare them extremely well for their future learning and life. Children are articulate communicators. Older babies relish the challenge of saying words with more complex sounds, such as 'excavator', 'thermometer' and 'stethoscope'. Older children make predictions and ask thoughtful questions, such as, 'Does the black widow spider live in Australia?'
All children have an exceptionally strong desire to gain more knowledge and to extend their skills. Older children show high levels of concentration when they choose to take part in stretching and balancing exercises. They listen attentively to staff and carefully follow instructions. Babies develop excellent problem solving and reasoning skills. They move objects around to find the holes to thread these onto a stick. They know when they have filled a stick and move onto the next one.
Children have extremely high levels of self-control and learn to successfully manage their feelings and behaviour. Staff sensitively help babies to learn that they cannot take objects from other children. Staff expertly help toddlers to understand about the feelings of others.
- 15 August 2022Outstanding
- 19 August 2016Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Busy Bees Day Nursery at Shrewsbury
- 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.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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