Busy Bees are excited to announce that our Nursery in Brough have received the Busy Bees ‘Centres of Excellence’ award. Busy Bees are committed to offering quality childcare to every child that attends our nurseries. In continuing the passion, enthusiasm and drive our childcare professionals display, five Busy Bees nurseries across the UK have receive this award.

The nurseries chosen as the Centres of Excellence will encourage our childcare professionals to continue to develop and provide a good all round environment for the children at Busy Bees. The initiative promotes a proactive approach to best practice by giving our Nursery Staff the opportunity to visit the Centres of Excellence. During their visit, staff will observe areas such as; creativity, access to resources, and child learning journals accompanied with development monitoring systems. All the observations are designed to give inspiration and ideas to staff across the whole of Busy Bees, ensuring our nurseries are always exciting and efficient settings for children to develop and play.

Busy Bees Nursery in Brough received the award after our Childcare and Curriculum team observed that child development is encouraged through an excellent Key Person system and the ‘Buddy System’ is in operation to ensure continuity of care for all children who attend. Children’s creativity is captured throughout the setting and their achievements are celebrated though displays. The Childcare and Curriculum team also found a good balance of child and adult led activities, allowing the children to make their own choices between activities.

Lisa Snell, our Childcare and Curriculum Manager, was delighted with what she observed at the nursery, saying, “The learning environment at our Brough nursery is rich and exciting, and provisions are identified in every room and enhanced accordingly, ensuring child development is encouraged throughout a child’s experience at nursery.”

The Centres of Excellence are part of a larger project being developed by Busy Bees throughout 2011. Our ‘See the Difference’ campaign ensures that each of our nurseries maintain a high level of care and service by answering to a strict and thorough criteria.