Busy Bees Chafford Hundred

Drake Road, Chafford Hundred, Grays RM16 6RW
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8.3 22 Reviews
  • Busy Bees Chafford Hundred, Grays
Busy Bees Chafford Hundred, in Grays, operates a key person system to safeguard the individual learning and development of each child, within a secure and friendly facility.

Free-flow is supported by a qualified team, with the benefit of pleasant indoor and outdoor learning areas that have been purpose-designed to help children pack up new skills and practice their creativity.

There are experienced staff for all age groups and a nutritious food programme in place to support healthy physical development.

Care Provided by Busy Bees Chafford Hundred

  • Type of Service
  • Day Nursery – Privately Owned
  • Open all year
  • Full Day Care
  • Sessional Day Care

Good to Know

  • Person in charge
  • Laura Lindsay (Nursery Manager)
  • Number of Childcare Staff
  • 30
  • Total Places for Children
  • 102
  • Age Range
    • from 0 years 3 months
    • to 5 years 0 months
  • Opening Times
  • Monday 07:00-19:00
    Tuesday 07:00-19:00
    Wednesday 07:00-19:00
    Thursday 07:00-19:00
    Friday 07:00-19:00
  • When Closed
  • Bank Holidays

Busy Bees Chafford Hundred Reviews (22)

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8.3

Busy Bees Chafford Hundred has a Review Score of 8.3 (8.314) out of 10, based on 3 reviews in the last 2 years. Over all time Busy Bees Chafford Hundred has 22 reviews.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5

Really happy with the care and the relationship with his key person. His confidence and social skills have come on really well. Staff are very good at following my wishes with regards to sleeping encouraging his eating.

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Overall Experience  Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5

I can highly recommend this nursery. First, my eldest daughter attended 10 years ago and now I'm back with my second daughter. My daughter is 18 months and loves her nursery. She's always happy to go in, is well looked after, the food is excellent and staff are fantastic. You can see they care about
the children. My daughter is becoming a very independent and confident toddler with her speech getting better every day.
She is loved by all the staff members as she is a little character like her sister used to be. She has created very close bonds with lots of the nursery staff and she's more than happy to go with them and get involved in various tasks. Overall, I'm very happy and I know my daughter is in a safe and happy environment.

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Current Review Score: 8.3 (8.314)

Overview of Review Score

The Review Score of 8.3 (8.314) out of 10 for Busy Bees Chafford Hundred is based on a) the Average Rating and b) the number of positive Reviews.

  • a) The Average Rating is 4.9 out of 5 from 3 Reviews in the last 24 months.

  • b) The score for the number of positive Reviews is 3.4 out of 5 from 3 positive Reviews in the last 24 months.

Detailed Breakdown of Review Score

The maximum Review Score for a Day Nursery is 10, which is made up from the Average Rating of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) and the Number of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) in the last 24 months:

  • a) 5 Points are available for the Average Rating from all Reviews in the last 24 months.

    The Average Rating of 4.917 for Busy Bees Chafford Hundred is calculated as follows: ( (33 Excellents x 5) + (3 Goods x 4) ) ÷ 36 Ratings = 4.917

  • b) 5 Points are available for the number of Positive Reviews in the last 24 months. A Positive Review is defined as any Review with an 'Overall Experience' of '4' or '5' (out of a max rating '5').

    The 3.397 Points relating to the number of positive Reviews for Busy Bees Chafford Hundred is based on 3 positive Reviews in the last 24 months and is calculated as per below:

    The 5 points available are broken down as follows:

    • i) 4 points are available for the first 10 Positive Reviews in the last 24 months; 3 points for the first Positive Review, and then 0.125 Points for each of the next four Positive Reviews and then 0.1 Points for the next five Positive Reviews. (1st = 3.000, 2nd = 0.125, 3rd = 0.125, 4th = 0.125, 5th = 0.125, 6th = 0.100, 7th = 0.100, 8th = 0.100, 9th = 0.100, 10th = 0.100) 3 + 0.125 + 0.125 = 3.25

    • ii) 1 point is available for the number of Positive Reviews reaching 20% of the number of registered child places in the last 24 months. If this number is partially reached, then that proportion of 1 point is given. eg a Day Nursery registered for a maximum of 50 child places has to reach 10 Positive Reviews to receive 1 point, if it has 7 reviews it will receive 0.7 points. 20% of the 102 number of registered child places is 20.4. 3 Positive Reviews ÷ 20.4 = 0.147

  • When a Review is submitted by someone who has previously submitted a Review, only the latest Review will count towards the Review Score.

  • If a Day Nursery does not have a review in the last 24 months, then it will not have a Review Score.

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Meet the Team (1)

Laura

Laura Lindsay

Job Title: Centre Director

Joined: 2002

Hello, my name is Laura and I am the Centre Director here at Busy Bees Drake Road. I have worked at the nursery for 22 years and have been the manager for 19 of those years.  


I have 4 children, my eldest is 17 and my youngest has just turned 1. All 4 of my children have attended the nursery and have thoroughly enjoyed their time here. It has been amazing watching them develop relationships with key staff and watching them grow in confidence and I truly believe my older children were school-ready because of their time at Busy Bees.