Busy Bees At Maidstone Oakwood
Queens Road, Maidstone, ME16 0JN
Provider type
Nursery
Capacity
66 children
Key details
Capacity
66 places
Ofsted Inspection Summary
Busy Bees At Maidstone Oakwood was inspected by Ofsted on 1 September 2025 and received an overall rating of Requires improvement. In their report, inspectors noted: "The provision requires improvement The quality of teaching and children's overall experiences are variable. Inconsistencies in the support for some staff means that they do not have the knowledge and skills to confidently fulfil their roles. Despite this, staff know most of their key children well and have built good bonds with them."
Key strengths
- Staff use stories and songs to support children's language development.
- Babies and children have opportunities to develop their physical skills.
- Parents receive information regarding children's next steps.
- Staff support children to develop their independence.
- Children enjoy expressing their creativity and discovering the world they live in.
Areas for improvement
- strengthen the supervision, coaching and monitoring of staff, to improve the quality of interactions, and the delivery of the curriculum, to raise teaching to…
- improve the organisation of less effective parts of the daily routine to reduce the time that children need to wait without receiving any meaningful engagement…
This summary is extracted from the official Ofsted inspection report. Read the full report for complete information.
Location
Queens Road, Maidstone, ME16 0JN
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