Busy Bees Day Nursery at Telford Priorslee

Practical independence gives Priorslee its clearest character: children serving meals, experimenting with dough tools and finding numbers in their surroundings. At its September 2025 inspection, Ofsted judged the nursery Good, found safeguarding effective and recognised good progress, including for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Those findings need to be read alongside later safeguarding action.

Busy Bees Day Nursery at Telford Priorslee has capacity for 108 children. Babies through to children aged four attended in September 2025; that visit provides the picture of daily life below.

In September 2025, physical play had practical purpose. Babies explored water while standing, younger children made sweeping chalk marks to music, and older children used climbing and balancing equipment. Working dough with rollers and knives exercised the hands needed for writing.

The early years foundation stage links learning, development and care: here, the September 2025 examples included stories, sensory exploration and outdoor play. Children chose activities themselves. Mathematics also reached beyond a counting exercise, with older children searching for the same numeral in books, photographs and a clock.

Songs, rhymes and familiar story phrases supported language in September 2025, while conversation encouraged turn-taking. The limitation was precision: staff did not consistently use exchanges to extend children's ideas or address their individual learning needs. More purposeful activity planning was an improvement priority.

In September 2025, babies settled readily and built close relationships with staff. Independence developed through ordinary routines: younger children attempted their coats, while older children poured drinks and served food. These gave children opportunities to practise doing things for themselves.

Support for individual needs at that visit included familiar-book soft toys to introduce feelings and specialist equipment to help children participate. Parents received updates about care and learning, alongside activities to continue at home. Staff development needed firmer embedding to address weaknesses in teaching.

Following a regulatory visit on 27 July 2026, Ofsted issued a welfare requirements notice addressing eating supervision, individual care and inclusion, and the handling of safeguarding allegations. The nursery had investigated allegations of harm involving a staff member but had failed to notify the regulator; outdoor works affecting children's usable space had also gone unnotified.

The actions carried a deadline of 7 August 2026. They required suitable seating and children to remain within staff's sight and hearing while eating, care matched to each child, participation in daily activities, and consistent safeguarding procedures when allegations arise. The dated outcome said monitoring would follow and that the nursery remained registered; it did not establish completion of those actions.

The address is Priorslee Avenue, Priorslee, Telford, TF2 9NR. In September 2025, opening hours were 7.30am to 6pm, Monday to Friday, throughout the year. Government-funded childcare and early education were offered at that time.

• Safeguarding action. The July 2026 notice concerned notification failures and required changes to safeguarding practice, eating supervision and individual care. Ask to see the subsequent regulatory outcome and how those requirements have been addressed.
• Teaching precision. September 2025 improvement priorities covered activity planning and staff development. A visit should explore how practitioners now select each child's next learning steps and extend play towards them.
• Your attendance pattern. The September 2025 opening window covered weekdays across the year. Ask which booking pattern and funded-hours arrangement would fit your family's schedule.

Priorslee's September 2025 picture would suit families who value practical independence, physical play and learning woven into daily routines. However, the later welfare notice materially changes the decision. The priority is understanding the response to the July 2026 requirements.