Busy Bees Lake Terrace is an early childhood centre at 30 Lake Terrace Road, Burwood, Christchurch. It offers 20 hours of funded early childhood education, a before-school programme, and the Kaitiaki Kids programme, which runs a weekly excursion each term to local parks, red zones and wetlands. The centre has separate indoor and outdoor areas for each age and stage, and older and younger children share time together in tuakana-teina interactions. It is a lunchbox centre, where children bring their own lunch, which the website says builds independence and self-help skills for school. The centre also holds the Heart Foundation's Rito Tohu Manawa Ora | Healthy Heart Award for healthy food and physical activity.
The centre follows Te Whāriki, the national early childhood curriculum, through its own Bee Curious framework, and runs a MOVE programme for physical skills. Its teachers live in Burwood and nearby suburbs. The centre works with local primary schools and holds transition-to-school evenings with primary teachers and principals. Open Locally counts three other childcare listings within a kilometre: Northcote Early Learning Centre at 0.2 km, Little Explorers Preschool at 0.7 km, and Busy Bees Burwood at 0.9 km, which has 14 reviews with a rating of 5.0.