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
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 🎂🎈🎁🥳
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 hasn’t 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 🎂
We celebrated yesterday by cleaning and setting up ready for our new school year 😃
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.
Here are some more photos of the beach party from Friday and today 🏖 🎉 We all had so much fun
Last day tomorrow 😔 we will be continuing our beach party to the end 😃
Our potato harvesting and a few beach party photos. More to follow next week.
We have an under water ship wreck and treasure to discover this week in our tactile activity tray.
We have been having lots of fun with the water play with a fountain then extending that with a ‘waterfall’ the children decided it needed. We also had some beautiful stones appear in our garden, the children said the fairies had left them. 🧚♂️ 🧚♀️
Our beach activity tray for this week and our wall displays of sea creatures and hot air balloons the children have enjoyed painting, gluing and cutting
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We had a tractor at the beginning of the week, then some strawberry picking and ended with spotting creatures in our bug hotel and an amazing looking caterpillar 🐛
Today we picked, cleaned and cooked spinach to eat. Some of us liked it more than others 😁
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
