Welcome to Busy Lizzies Preschool…
Busy Lizzies Preschool aims to provide an interesting, stimulating and safe environment where children are happy to express their creativity, enjoy positive respectful relationships, grow in self-confidence and delight in the joy of learning.
Meet The Team
Our wonderful team are highly skilled and trained with over 40 years of combined Childcare experienceCaring, friendly staff
Our staff provide the very best care for your child at all times and are totally committed to their development
Sessions & Costs
We are open from 9.00am until 3.00pm. Choose any combination of sessions, to suit your needsFlexible Childcare
We accept all childcare vouchers. A minimum of 3 sessions is required to start at the Preschool
A Typical Day
At every session the children can enjoy a mixture of free flow and structured play all in our great settingWhat we do each day
We operate an open door policy and parents/carers are welcome to stay and enjoy the session with their child
30 Hours
Many working parents of 3 to 4 year olds in England will be eligible for the 30 hours of free childcare30 hour Provision
This is for 38 weeks per year (not 52) – its equivalent to school term times. Want to know more? Click on the link for more infoFrom the team who run the Ofsted rated OUTSTANDING settings Busy Lizzies Kids Club and Bengeo Playgroup we now introduce our latest setting.
Everything that we have learnt from our settings has been transferred to Busy Lizzies Preschool, but on a bigger scale!
The activities, planning and resources have been chosen with care. We have used our reflective practice from Bengeo Playgroup to ensure we have the most popular resources, themes, topics and activities that will challenge the children in a fun way.
We like to think that Busy Lizzies Preschool is a home from home. Each child is allocated a Key Person who will bond with your child and plan interesting and educational activities. Our staff have over 40 years of Childcare experience between them.
Each year we add to our large range of resources to ensure that we offer a wealth of fun activities to entertain the children. We have a covered outside area and a large enclosed Play ground which enables us to offer free flow play whatever the weather. We are also lucky enough to have a separate secure grassed play space where we also grow our own fruit and vegetables.
Your child can join Busy Lizzies Preschool the term after they turn 2 and progress to Nursery and School. We hold a transition meeting with the Nursery Teachers from local schools and provide transition reports. Nursery teachers are invited to our setting to meet their new children.
…where children feel at home.
Updates & Announcements
We had a fantastic week exploring everything Autumn as we looked at colours, textures, sinking and floating and how to make a conker roll. We look forward to continuing this next week.
Our new yellow tray including some maths and fine motor activities plus a bit of sensory play thrown in too!
The children will be helping us put together an Autumn tray outside with all of the treasures they gather on our Autumn walks this week.
Our week at preschool......... Making bread, finished our harvest basket and preschool friends displays, looking at shapes and the colour blue, making a scarecrow for our story of the week and a visit from a tractor.
We have a blue tray with water for our blue week. I think the children will enjoy this indoor water exploration play tray š¦
This week we have been looking at vegetables, enjoying our role play farm shop indoors and collecting crops in our tractors outside.
Sharing as this is a great app for the children.Itās here! Get your FREE copy of the brand new game from the makers of Teach Your Monster to Read! apple.co/3m27oLi
This new game gets kids reading for fun and inspires a lifelong love of reading. āTeach Your Monster: Reading for Funā gives kids the chance to collect over 70 books for their monsterās bookshelf! Itās the perfect follow-up to Teach Your Monster to Read.
This time your monster is exploring a magical village, full of fascinating facts and spellbinding stories. There are lots of reading buddies waiting to meet your monster and so many fun things to do. Head over to the village noticeboard in the morning and pick a job for the day. Thereās a lot going on - from reading recipes in the bakery, to reading addresses and signposts to deliver parcels. You can earn over 70 outstanding books as rewards for helping out!
In āTeach Your Monster: Reading for Funā, the choice is yours!
Choose to go on quests and try to stop the mischievous goblin causing chaos.
Choose to pop into the library and read a whole variety of books with the villagers.
Choose to dress up and explore the village - maybe you could find out how to get into The Dark Forest and discover whatās in there...
āTeach Your Monster: Reading for Funā has landed on iPads and iPhones today and is completely FREE for a limited time!
Once downloaded thereās nothing to pay to continue playing on your device, even after the free promotion ends! No subscriptions, no in-app purchases and definitely no ads. It's also free to play on the web and an Android version is coming soon.
Please share the news with your friends, so they donāt miss out!
We canāt wait to welcome you all to the magical village that gets kids reading for fun!
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We have our big change over this week. Our new topic is harvest, for which we have a lot of different activities set up ready for the children to enjoy. We are also exploring the colour red.
This week we listened to the sounds around us and went for a walk into the big field with our listening ears on to see what we could hear.
This week we are focusing on listening with our activity tray full of different sounds and descriptive words.
This morning we had a grass hopper climbing all over the climbing frame. The children thought this was so exciting.
Our amazing week at preschool with puppet shows, listening walks in the big field and lots of other fun.
Mrs Skidmore had a very special birthday today
Happy 60th birthday Mrs Skidmore šššš„³
This week we have a Peppa pig activity tray as it has been a popular topic of conversation with the children.
Today has been a first day at preschool for a few, they have all done amazingly well. Even though it hasnāt been as sunny the children have really enjoyed exploring indoors and outside.
The children are having a wonderful time at preschool in the sunshine this week. They are settling so well and beginning to make new friendships.
Here are a few photos of the children enjoying their first two days of preschool. We will post more next week.
After a fantastic morning meeting so many new families we look forward to beginning our new school year tomorrow and welcoming back some families too.
Here are a few more photos of our outside areas.
We have preschool all ready to welcome you all. Here are a few photos of inside, we will add some more tomorrow.
Happy 40th birthday to Miss Forsyth š
We celebrated yesterday by cleaning and setting up ready for our new school year š
What an emotional few days it has been saying goodbye to the children who have graduated from preschool. We want to say a huge thank you for our amazing presents and wonderful, thoughtful words. We will really miss these children.
We have had a lot of fun over their last days with our beach party. Here are a few more party photos.
Why choose Busy Lizzies Preschool?
Wellcomm speech assessment trained
Fully qualified staff
We are all Mummy’s!
One of only 19 settings in East Herts piloting a mindfulness project
Fully trained Senco for the setting
Every team member isĀ paediatric first aid trained
High staff to child ratio’s
5 Star food hygiene award
We offer 2 year, 3-4 year and the new 30 funding
Fully flexible sessions
No additional charges (no uniform, no charge for snack)
Adhoc sessions available within short time frames
Awarded Entrepreneur of the year
We practice Music and Move and mini Yoga each day
