Busy Bees Harrogate Hornbeam Park

Our daughter has been attending Busy Bees for four days a week since January 2021 and absolutely loves it - she walks herself in with a big smile on her face! The members of staff are amazing, we feel that they really care about our daughter and her development. We get frequent updates on the app throughout the day, including photos, and always get a good summary of her day at pick-up time too. She's built really good relationships with the staff in her room and even staff who aren't in her room greet her in the morning, it's such a lovely welcoming environment. The nursery building is purpose-built and has excellent outdoor space, the children spend a good amount of time outside and take part in lots of different activities, which is great. Our daughter has developed so much since being at Busy Bees and really benefits from the social side of nursery life. We would highly recommend this nursery!

A wonderful nursery, with staff who are incredibly nurturing and caring. My daughter has grown so much more confident since attending and she is always happy at drop off and pick up. I would definitely recommend.

The staff are absolutely lovely, really care about their job and the children. The nursery is well organised without being too corporate. The children are really happy here and come back learning new things every day having had great experiences.

The outside space is the best I have seen when looking for a nursery and the building is large, airy and set up for the purpose.

Both my children have attended Busy Bees at Hornbeam Park I cannot recommend them enough. The care they provide is excellent and every member of staff is caring, friendly and approachable. The activities they do with the children are well varied and the preschool project that is undertaken is brilliant in getting children ready for preparing them for their next steps in starting school. I would highly recommend this nursery to any prospective parent.

Highly recommend Busy Bees, Hornbeam Park! In the short period of time, our child was at their preschool setting, we experienced excellent care from a really great team. We were made to feel completely welcome, and, given the circumstances of the last 18 months, we were confident our child was in safe hands with the Covid measures in place. The staff we encountered were always friendly and the setting was great at communicating with parents. Will definitely consider a place at Hornbeam Park for our new baby.

We will miss them all when we leave!

Busy Bees has been the best start for our little girl. She is about to start school and Busy Bees staff have worked really hard to get her ready. All of the staff have been amazing and we trust them fully. Highly recommend to anyone. Thank you for everything.

I have two children at this nursery that visit on a part time basis (3 full days / per week). The staff are very friendly and approachable. Both my children adore their key workers. The staff greet my children every morning and give me direct feedback at the end of every day. There is also a 'parentzone' app that provides a more detailed account should I want to find out more. The food is varied and plentiful. A menu is listed on a board at the entrance for all parents to view. The facilities are also great - lots of space both inside and out. My oldest child will leave this nursery in September to start school but the staff have worked hard to prepare him for the move. He has a good understanding of numbers and letters and they have encouraged him to be more independent which should help his transition. In summary, this is a great nursery that I would highly recommend.

My daughter loves going to nursery every day, the staff is amazing, friendly a caring. They always accommodated our request for any changes and we are as parents are so grateful for this. My daughter has been attending for the past 3 years and she was always happy. The outdoor area is really nice with good equipment and toys. Good choice of healthy food. Nice and clean facilities. I can recommend!

We wanted to phase our daughter going back 3-days then 4-days a week, and the nursery was incredibly accommodating. Would highly recommend!

He loves it so much, some days, I have to pull him away from what he’s doing!

Dedicated staff on the whole who seem to genuinely care.

The manager and her team run a fantastic nursery with a very nurturing ethos. The children have lots of fun and opportunity to learn through play in the preschool ‘buzz’ room. The staff are great. Would recommend!

Since moving home our son has moved from one Busy Bees nursery to another. We were very happy with his original nursery and have not been disappointed by the new one. In fact, our son has settled in beautifully and this is thanks to the staff and management at nursery, we couldn't be happier with the way the transition has been handled. The facilities are good, the rooms are clean and well organised, there is a focus on development and as a parent, I feel welcomed to raise any queries that I may have.

Meal times are great, the food is of a very high standard. The kids always seem so happy and so am I with this nursery!!

She has taken her 1st steps this week and the staff were as excited as I was which is lovely. I can't recommend this setting enough

Child is doing extremely well since moving to this nursery. Improving in all elements of her development more than I would have expected. Great nursery staff, interact really well her and are all very nice.

Sienna started in Tinies 2 around April 2016. She has always attended two and a half days and settled in very quickly. Her recent move from Tweenies has gone well and she generally loves coming to nursery.

We would very much recommend the very early years care and have been really happy with having our children in the Tinies groups. The staff are honest (they say if the children have not had a good day), obviously know the children well, and treat each child as an individual. We have complete confidence in handing over our children to them.

It may be a result of the changeover in ownership, but we have not had the same confidence in the later classes with multiple handovers of key workers, lack of communication (the nursery ended their policy of having uniforms for the older children, but since we were not told, ours still wore theirs for a month), no take home paintings or craft work between April and August this year, and the development book not being kept up to date. General communication could certainly be better, with things like sign up's to extra classes and photographs being made explicit to parents rather than relying on word of mouth.