ABOUT BUSY OTTERS

A Lively Learning Experience

Busy Otters is a local run preschool for Ottery St Mary and surrounding community.

The committee run group was first registered in 1987, and has recently become a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO).

We are a registered charity, number 1177677 (CIO)/ 1023260 (Old organisation), and our accounts can be found here.

Our governing document uses the Early Year's Alliance (formerly Preschool Alliance) model constitution, a copy of which is here.

Our Ofsted number is EY560108 / EY421724 and our latest inspection report can be found here. Please note that this shows the setting as "closed" - this is not actually the case! But instead as a consequence of becoming a CIO we have a new number EY560108.

About: About Us

OUR VALUES

Let's be P-E-A-C-H-Y!

Positive mindset: be the best we can.
Enabling Environment: that's nurturing and safe to enable optimum learning.
Achieve & Encourage: Have a go, keep trying, and enjoy achievement
Confident & Caring: supporting individual's ideas.
Happy: creating a happy supportive place (so individuals know where to turn if they are not happy)
Yourself: Where all in the setting can be individual and be motivated to grow and learn.

About: Our Philosophy

OUR SESSIONS

Our sessions are run between 0915 and 1515 Monday-Friday Term Time only.

We are able to take children from 2 years and offer up to 30 hours funded childcare per week, subject to eligibility.

About: Our Mission

MEET OUR GOVERNING COMMITTEE

The trustees act as the governing body for the preschool, and the committee help organise fundraising.
We are all parents of current and/or past Busy Otters pupils.
We volunteer our time for free because we want to help make this setting the best as possible!