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
Today we took delivery of our new mud kitchen. It’s been on our wish list for a while now and the children have had sooooo much fun making all kinds of messy concoctions!
We have a sorting and counting vehicles activity tray this week ✈️🚗🚌🚁🚂🚢
We have been making vehicles 🚗🚂🚌 out of playdough, playing with boats 🚤 in the water and playing at being a pilot👩✈️ 👨✈️ and flying to a holiday destination ✈️ 🏝
A fun filled, busy week 😊
As we are finally experiencing some warm weather, a reminder to apply sun cream and bring hats and water bottles. ☀️☀️☀️
We return this week with our new topic, transport. We have lots of fun activities planned including an aeroplane role play to jet off in 🛩 ✈️
We have 5 butterflies 🦋
I have captured this video of the final butterfly emerging out of its chrysalis. Absolutely amazing to watch 🤩
We will be releasing them on Monday with the children.
We have had a week investigating mini beasts, mark making in sand, then ended with a picnic snack in the sunshine ☀️
Mr L has been busy making this for our next topic. 3 in one night! Summer is here!
Our mark making activity tray this week is looking at differences and similarities between the bugs. 🐞🐛🕷🪲🐜
We have had a fantastic week of bug hunting, making a big bug hotel in our garden and some smaller ones to bring home 🐛🐝🦋🐌🐞🐜🕷
Our new water fountain tray has arrived 😃 As you can see the children are really enjoying exploring how the water can move to the different layers and back up to the top again 💦
We begin our final topic of this term; mini beasts. We have an indoor bug hotel to hunt for bugs in and bugs in bark to use the tweezers to pick up, helping to build up those fine motor muscles 🐞🐛🕷🐜
We have had a busy week looking at caterpillars as we have watched ours get bigger. We have also learnt about the life cycle of frogs and butterflies too.
Our counting and numeral matching frog activity tray with sensory ‘spawn’. I am looking forward to seeing the children’s faces, the ‘frogs spawn’ is quite realistic 🐸
This week at preschool we displayed our flower pictures and discussed what plants need to grow, prepared our next flowerbed for some more plants as the frosts have gone, and made some speckled frog masks counting the number of spots to paint ready for next week 🌷🌞🌧🐸
Our garden centre with a mathematical focus, plus diggers to help scoop and pour soil into the pots for planting. 🌷🌻🌿
We look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday.
We have been planting and looking at how plants grow and what they need to grow. The children are looking forward to seeing how tall their sunflowers will be 🌻
We have a new topic this week as we begin planting. In the role play area is Jack’s house with a magical beanstalk and in our activity tray we have magic bean planting 🌱
We have had a fantastic time learning about dinosaurs, I think it has been a favourite topic for all of the children 🦖🦕
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 is 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
