Busy Bees Day Nursery at Ilford

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is outstanding Leaders' excellent arrangements for staff's supervision and professional development opportunities help maintain high standards of care and teaching. Staff receive extremely responsive training, support and guidance.

For example, they make excellent use of skills from training to promptly close gaps in children's mathematical development. Staff build very strong partnerships with parents to help ensure high-quality outcomes for the children. They use highly successful strategies to engage parents and encourage their involvement in children's learning.

Parents are highly appreciative of the ongoing information and support they receive. Staff ...observe and assess children's learning extremely well. They plan stimulating, interesting and challenging opportunities to strengthen children's learning and to help them make rapid progress with their development.

Children have an excellent sense of belonging. They select and choose independently from the exceptionally well-displayed resources. Children are extremely happy, motivated to learn and become completely absorbed in their well-chosen activities.

Children behave exceptionally well. They have an excellent understanding of what staff expect of them and they learn to set rules for their own play. Staff's excellent use of praise helps children recognise their own achievements and raises their self-confidence and self-esteem.