Busy Bees (Durham) Ltd

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is outstanding • The quality of teaching and learning is consistently high.

Staff value the importance of gathering as much information from parents as possible when their child starts at the nursery. This helps staff to plan effectively from the outset, reduce any undue stress and anxiety, and support the child to settle and feel emotionally secure very quickly. Children make significant progress from their starting points, including those who need additional help and support.

• Management and staff meticulously monitor children's progress and this helps to identify if there are any delays or gaps in children's learning. For example, they have previously ...found that mathematics was an area that needed development. As a result, they have added to resources to help engage and increase children's involvement in mathematics.

• Managers have a rigorous system to ensure that staff and apprentices provide children with high-quality care. The staff team is supported extraordinarily well by the management team through supervisions, regular meetings and training. • Parents are extremely complimentary about the nursery and staff.

They appreciate the opportunities to come in with their children for stay-and-play sessions. They comment that they love how relaxed and warm adults are during group time. Parents state, 'It was a chance to see children being happy and it was great to see them interacting with their friends and being confident and independent as they grow.'

• Children develop a deep interest and enjoyment for learning in the outdoors. They have limitless opportunities to investigate, explore and discover the world around them as they play. Well-qualified staff use their expert knowledge to plan highly stimulating, challenging and interesting experiences in the natural environment that children thoroughly enjoy.