Busy Bees at Bernard Street is a purpose built, single-storey nursery with a well designed layout. The nursery has a good sized garden with a seperate baby garden filled with fantastic equipment. A high standard of care is provided by our friendly and experienced staff team, in bright and welcoming group rooms
The nursery is located 15 minutes walk from St Albans Train station, and 10 minutes drive from A1.
The manager, Fatma Yorganci, joined Bernard Street in November 2009 to take on the role of Nursery Manager, which she thoroughly enjoys.
Fatma has worked for the Busy Bees Group for over 6 year and has previously managed other nurseries within the group.
Fatma enjoys seeing the children progress to their full potential.
“Olivia has been at Busy Bees for over 3 years and still looks forward to going every day. Each of their rooms are well organised and designed to encourage various stages of development, whilst retaining a bright and comforting atmosphere. Busy Bees has brought out Olivia's creativity and influenced her confidence and social skills, in a positive way, full credit to all the staff. I would thoroughly recommend Busy Bees to any prospective parents looking for a nurturing responsible environment for their child.” – Ms S Watson
“Both William and Harry have developed as individuals in all aspects of their developmental growth. We have seen their language skills improve, especially so with Harry as he has had a slow start, but it doesn't end there. Their interplay skills have improved along with their hand eye co-ordination. William & Harry love their days at Busy Bees and that alone makes us as parents feel much more relaxed and confident that they are in the best of hands whilst we are at work. Whenever asked we don't have to think twice about recommending Busy Bees, it gets a 10 out of 10 endorsement from us.”
“Alice started at Busy Bees when she was 6 months old and I was anxious about leaving my tiny baby. We visited every nursery in St. Albans and decided that Busy Bees was the best place for our child to be looked after. I am so glad we spent all that time looking at all the other nurseries as Alice settled immediately and looks forward to seeing all her friends each day. We were amazed at the activities Alice was involved in from a very early age and her bedroom is decorated with all her artwork. We can both be confident whilst we are at work that Alice is having such fun and being very well cared for by happy, friendly staff. Thanks to all at Busy Bees for their care of our daughter.”
The right nursery setting can make a big difference to a child, that's why Busy Bees at Bernard Street is purposely designed with children in mind. Our play areas are bright welcoming and fun with areas for messy activities, active play, sleeping and quiet times.
Toys and equipment are chosen specifically for each age and stage of development so there's always plenty to keep young minds stimulated.
Other benefits of Busy Bees at Bernard Street include...
To compliment the fun activities we provide every day in nursery, we also offer additional extra curricular activities that will help your child to develop further and enjoy their time at nursery even more.
Busy Bees at Bernard Street currently offer...
Providing high standard, high quality childcare is of utmost importance to us and we want your child to enjoy their time at our nursery. Each child is treated as an individual and we strive to ensure that each child's social, physical and emotional needs are met.
At Busy Bees at Bernard Street some of our unique objectives to providing high quality childcare include...
Busy Bees at Bernard Street is regulated and inspected under the Children's Act by Ofsted and receives inspections and visits to ensure that our practices and procedures are in accordance with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) welfare requirements.
Latest inspection date: 01/05/2009
Here are some of the comments from our latest Ofsted report: -
"The nursery is extremely inviting, largely well- resourced and provides for all areas of development inside and outside."
"Children are constantly offered a stimulating range of activities that enable them to make very good progress."
At Busy Bees at Bernard Street we make mealtimes happy social occasions, where skills can be developed and new foods tasted.
We are dedicated to providing your children with fresh, well-balanced meals every day; that not only taste great, but that also provide lots of nourishment.
To ensure we are providing well balanced, nutritious meals to our children, the Busy Bees catering team worked alongside Michelin-starred chef, Phil Vickery, and a child nutritionist to create a brand new range of delicious recipes to use, as part of the nurseries' day to day menus.
[Click Here] to download a sample nursery menu and see some of the tasty dishes being served in our nurseries.
Our nursery has a fully equipped kitchen where all meals are prepared and cooked using only the freshest produce - including fresh fruit and vegetables every day.
Each meal is carefully planned to meet each child's individual needs and to cater for any special dietary requirements.
Nursery Cook, Margaret, has worked at the nursery since 2009.
Margaret is very popular among the children and they love her cooking.
Margret provides wonderful meals for the children catering for there individual needs, providing freshly cooked meals each day.