Busy Bees Pre-School
Good★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 5Open for decades
A day nursery in Petts Wood for children from birth to 5, open 09:00 to 15:00, 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 They do not publish prices, so that is the first thing to ask.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 24 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 Bromley
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Bromley 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
BR5 1DPWhat 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, 25 September 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
All children, including those who have recently started attending, demonstrate that they feel happy, safe and secure in the warm and welcoming pre-school. Leaders and staff provide an inclusive environment for all children. An effective key-person system supports children's emotional development and helps to foster early attachments so that individual children's care needs are met from the outset.
Children demonstrate a positive attitude to learning and behave well. The dedicated leader and staff have high expectations for children's behaviour and conduct. They act as positive role models, and rules and boundaries are in place to help children to understand what is expected of them.
All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- support staff to have a better understanding of what children need to learn during planned activities n strengthen staff's interactions, so they recognise children's changing interests as they join their play.
- 25 September 2024Good
- 21 November 2018Good
- 14 January 2016Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Busy Bees Pre-School
- 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
This one is first. Tick it and one or two others to see them side by side.