Busy Bees at Leicester Meridian

  • EHO rating of 5
  • EHO rating of 5
  • Centre of Excellence
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Just some of the facilities to be found at Busy Bees at Leicester Meridian
Manager
Michaela Leigh
Address
Meridian Leisure Park
Meridian Way
Braunstone
Leicester
LE19 1JZ
Telephone
0116 289 3083
Mobile
07966830413
Hours
8.00am - 6.00pm, Monday to Friday
Ages Taken
3months - 5years
view a map of the location of our childrens nursery

Why choose Busy Bees at Leicester Meridian: -

Busy Bees at Leicester Meridian is a purpose built, single storey building situated on a Meridian Leisure Park. It is very close to Thorpe Astley Housing Estate and Meridian Business Park and is ideally located for the M1 corridor.

We have a long serving, passionate and dedicated staff team, who provide fun, safe childcare to each and every child who attends our nursery.

We continue to invest in our staff team, providing training opportunities for all of our early year educators and also catering staff. Currently out of our staff team of 25 – 18 are at qualified NVQ level 3, 4 are working towards there level 3. We also have 2 senior room managers who are studying their NVQ level 4.

We believe in treating all children as individuals and letting them have their own voice – so they can express themselves, self-select independently and follow their own learning journey while at Leicester Meridian.

Each day our nursery provides fresh home cooked meals and snacks. We cater for children with dietary requirements due to religion, allergy related or vegetarian. We continue to hold the maximum 5 star certificate rating for food hygiene issued by environmental health in December 2011. Recently we acquired our bronze award from the Soil association.

New to our nursery is a Parent partnership group, we aim to meet twice per year. The idea of the group is to continue our excellent partnership with parents and carers, which was recognised by Ofsted, who rated us at outstanding within this area. Our members of the parent partnership are available by email to provide support to new parents or answer any questions parents may have when they first join our nursery.

We were rated “Good” in our Ofsted inspection with areas of outstanding for our effectiveness of partnerships and the effectiveness of the setting’s engagement with parents and carers.

Please come and have a visit of our lovely nursery, the team look forward to meeting you and showing you all the wonderful things we do.

A look inside one of the nursery rooms at Busy Bees at Leicester Meridian

Facilities at the nursery include: -

  • Good Ofsted Report 2011- Click here to see our report
  • Cooking with Me for all those little chefs in the family
  • Busy Babies initiative to enhance your babies senses
  • Jo Jingles music and movement sessions
  • Newly decorated premises, high standard learning enviroment for your children
  • Interactive smart board in 3-5's - come on all you IT users show us how its done
  • A dedicated staff team with a wealth of childcare experience
  • Good security on entrance
  • Food is all fresh and home made in nursery - come and have a taste
  • Great location with easy access to the M1 

My name is Michaela and I have been the nursery manager at Leicester Meridian since the nursery opened in November 2001.

I have a son of my own who enjoyed his time at Busy Bees before going on to school.

I qualified in 1989 gaining my NNEB certificate in childcare and I continued to study, I am a qualified teacher in adult education and have lectured in childcare for NVQ level 2 & 3 at Leicester college.

I am also the safeguarding officer for Leicester Meridian and have my level 2 A & B award in Safeguarding for children and young people. As well as this I am the health & safety co-ordinator for the nursery and I have just achieved my first aid at work qualification for children and adults.

In my spare time I love walking, gardening and spending time with my family.