- Manager
- Kim Shinn and Louise Christie
- Address
- The Greenway
Harlow Business Park
Harlow
Essex
CM19 5QE - Telephone
- 01279 441277
- Hours
- 8.00am - 6.00pm, Monday to Friday
- Ages Taken
- 3 months - 5 years
Why choose Busy Bees in Harlow: -
Busy Bees in Harlow is purpose built, single storey nursery, designed specifically with children in mind. Security is high priority at Harlow, we have a secure key fob assess system and onsite CCTV for you to be able to view your child from the reception area of the nursery. We are located close to the two local train stations in Harlow, the nursery is ideally located for parents in Harlow.
At Busy Bees in Harlow we offer spacious, bright, inviting rooms with a wide range of activities to cater for all children’s needs.
We have 2 Large garden areas, which children can access freely throughout the day, children are able to take part in our Grow Your Own project, digging, watering and caring for fruit and veg plants, these are picked by the children and along with the nursery chef and prepared for the children to enjoy at meal or snack times.
The staff at Harlow are a long standing, experienced, well trained, highly qualified team who are committed on giving children the best experiences of nursery life.
Staff pride themselves in providing high standards of care and education, and always offer a warm welcome, making families feel at ease during their child’s settling in period and first days at nursery.
The nursery employs a chef who ensures along with the Busy Bees catering team that all meals provided are healthy and nutritionally balanced; we have a rolling menu which offers a variety of seasonal and fresh produce. Along with ensuring the children have different colours, textures and taste. Our chef also meets all children’s dietary requirements with regards to allergy’s and cultural or religious preferences.
Most Staff are mums themselves, so are always happy to offer advice and support, and understand parents concern when leaving their precious child for the first time.
The nursery also has a parent partnership group who are also happy to answer questions or advice which is made up of parents who have children that attend the nursery, these parents are available to email in the parent partnership group section of this web site.
We offer a number of initiatives including Wake and Shake singing and dancing to give your child a healthy start to the day and Our Imagination Station for all those budding explorers out there.
For our babies we offer the Busy Babies initiative to enhance your baby’s senses. Our onsite sensory and fun room is always a great hit with all children to enjoy with their key person and a small group of friends.
If you would like to receive a warm welcome in a secure safe environment then please arrange an appointment to come and visit the nursery and meet us all.
Facilities at the nursery include: -
- Good Ofsted 2009 - click here to see our report
- 5 Stars and GOLD healthy eating awards from Environmental Health 2011
- Wake and Shake singing and dancing to give your child a healthy start to the day
- Busy Babies initiative to enhance your babies senses
- Our Imagination Station for all those little explorers out there
- Grow Your Own for all the budding gardeners
- 2 Large outdoor garden and play environment
- Secure entry system with CCTV
- Friendly, long standing staff team
- Nappies inclusive
- Sensory room and fun room
- Local Library bus visit
- Highly qualified staff team
Hi
We are Kim and Louise
Joint Managers here at Busy bees Harlow, between us we have a whooping 37 years experience in childcare an NNEB and NVQ Level 3 qualification and are both NVQ assessors, we have been at Harlow since 1996.
During this time we have enjoyed every age group of children working as nursery nurses and deputy managers we now job share the role of manager, enjoying working along side the most amazing, caring and educated staff time we can find.
Our special interests include child protection training, mentoring our team and our Busy bees initiatives, Wake & Shake (Kim’s fav), Grow your own(Louise’s fav) Busy babies, imagination station and completing our N.D.N.A Quality assurance award.
Our 4 children have attended Busy bees Harlow and experience the wonders of busy bees and nursery life just like your child can.
So why not come and meet us and see how much fun your child could have here at Harlow.






