Montessori by Busy Bees North Chiswick

Please avoid this nursery. First of all it wasn’t welcoming when my child started as they did not even prepared her individual peg with her photo. After many promises from the nursery practitioners we decided to print out her photo at home and we stuck it on the wall above her peg as she was quite upset about it and did not feel very welcomed. Small thing though but means a lot for a little child.
The nursery very unreliable and your child will feel very insecure as the staff turnover is extremely high. (even the managers keep changing everything 3 months which means something...)
There is no CCTV in the rooms what I found strange nowadays in a nursery for security reasons and the feedbacks / observations of your child’s development is very poor. Staff are nice though but quite unprofessional as I would have expected more communication from them. I literally had no idea sometimes what my child did during the day. Staff do not put enough effort on EYFS and I found their “teaching” approach quite poor, below standards. Also it’s a nightmare to receive the deposit back once your child leaves and they put the parents in very uncomfortable situations.

Good Nursery, it seems the previous management built up a bit of a bad reputation hence the low rating. HOWEVER let me tell you this nursery is kept to a high standard.
The staff are friendly and go out of their way to give you good feedback on how your child is developing. They also have an interactive app that updates you throughout the day with your child's changing and feeding habits. Our child is having a great time so far!

I'm sad to see this Busy Bees have received such low ratings for its previous management! My child has been going there for several months now and we're extremely happy with the staff and the activities they get up to. She's always coming home with arts and crafts, and she's always telling me enthusiastically about her day and is always excited to be dropped off in the mornings. We've noticed that she's come out of her shell a lot since attending Busy Bees. She's become more outgoing, more talkative and has learnt lots of new words too! I highly recommend this nursery!

Very professional and beautiful nursery. Very good communication and staff are 10/10

This nursery is amazing. Since the new manager and the new teachers are there, everything has been perfect. Montessori activities, my child has always been coming back home really happy and I saw big change in him. So sad we had to move abroad and have to say goodbye to this amazing team. We are going to miss them all. Thank you!

First I felt that the school was very safe with the friendly staff. Special thanks to supportive and understanding Miss Zenia and Miss Shannon who worked with me and the child on separation anxiety. I like that it’s an educational based facility with the small ratio of children and exposes your child to different aspects of learning through sensory and play. Teaching independence as well. The classrooms are clean and maintained during the day. Although I wish there was an indoor shoes policy in place. Playground is spacious and secured which is really nice. They even set up a splash pool for children attending during last summer's heatwave. Age groups are separated most day accross 2 floors in beautifully set up rooms (We miss Miss Kelly who worked on that with her team). All my questions or requests are always kindly answered. Good communication face to face and through using an app. Opened 51 weeks a year 8am - 6pm, accepts funded hours, often buy one get one free sessions. Food is provided, nutritious and delicious thanks to their new Chef. Highly recommended! Can not give 5 stars due to higher than I would expect staff rotation since we've joined. Saying that looks like under new director we are seeing less of that. Welcome on board Sagry!