Welcome to Monkey Puzzle Colchester
Welcome to Monkey Puzzle Colchester Nursery, conveniently located at 1 Villa Road, Colchester, CO3 0RH. Here at Monkey Puzzle we provide full time childcare in our light and spacious day nursery. Children aged 3 months to 5 years are cared for by our wonderful team of practitioners, carefully hand-picked to offer the highest level of care.
Our vision at Monkey Puzzle Colchester is ‘Working Together with Families, Staff and Children to Provide and Enabling, Safe and Healthy Environment where Children can Learn, Laugh and Grow with Us’.
It is owned by mother and father of two, Manjit & Sandy Sandhu and offers a home from home environment, where children are able to prosper and learn. We are part of an award-winning nursery group, offering high-quality childcare in our specially equipped nursery for children aged three months to five years old.
We have dedicated nursery spaces for the different age ranges, including mobile and non-mobile babies. We tailor our care to suit your child’s age. We achieve this by placing children into the following age categories: babies aged 3 to 18 months, tweenies aged 18 months to 2 years old, toddlers ages 2 to 3 years old and lastly preschool aged 3 to school age.
We’re just around the corner, with lots for you to discover…
- Part of an award winning nursery group with over 30 years experience in childcare
- Open Mon-Fri 51 weeks a year
- Closed for Bank Holidays and during Christmas week
- Full day sessions from 7.30 am to 6.30 pm
- Morning sessions from 7.30 am to 1 pm
- Afternoon sessions 1 pm to 6.30 pm
- All main meals and snacks prepared on site
- Branded Nappies and wipes included in the price
- 10% off nursery fees for NHS staff, Police, Fire Brigade, Teachers and, the Forces
- Modern security systems, including CCTV cameras
- We offer Spanish, Yoga, Music and Movement, and Tennis
- Amazing outside play area with impact absorbing safety surfacing
- Car Parking
- Limited 15 and 30 hour funded spaces available for wrap around care
Plus so much more. Get in touch today.
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We love to share insight into nursery life through our social media pages and accounts. Take a look below to see some of our posts, click to go through to view them in full and leave us a comment or a like.
We would like to wish Manjit a happy birthday, from everybody at Monkey Puzzle.
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Today, the children at Monkey Puzzle have taken part in a range of different activities relating to Red Nose Day.
The children have created their own red noses, explored the red playdough, been scooping out the different red items in water and enjoyed engaging in some messy activities including the red moon sand and painting.
It has been so lovely to see all of the children dressed in their pyjamas and red items today.
We are also pleased to say we have raised an amazing £192 so far for charity, a big thank you to all who donated!
There is still time to donate, please see the link below.
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Happy St Patrick’s day from all the children at Monkey Puzzle Colchester.
We have been discussing the celebration of St Patrick’s day. Including ‘shamrocks’ and what they represent so from this we decided to create our own “Shamrocks” using paper plates and lots and lots of green paint. Some of the children used their hands and a paintbrush to spread the paint around the Shamrock templates, other took a trip across the green Irish Sea with green gloop and enjoyed sponge painting their Shamrocks, the children even made their own Shamrocks out of green playdough.
All in all, the children had a great day exploring many textures, making some amazing creations and learning something new through play. ... See MoreSee Less
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Throughout the week the children at Monkey Puzzle have been taking part in a range of different activities related to Holi – The festival of colours, love and spring. The children have enjoyed scooping and pouring the colourful oats and pasta, creating some beautiful pictures and decorating some yummy cookies. The children have been engaging in some lovely discussions about those they love and have enjoyed sharing with one another what their favourite colours are. ... See MoreSee Less
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Monkey Puzzle Colchester is supporting Red Nose Day next week. It will be a day filled with fun festivities and more importantly if we can raise lots of money with your kind donations, please do so.
Here is the link…..
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Welcome back to Danielle and little baby Rosa. Danielle returns back to Monkey Puzzle after maternity leave and it has been straight back to business, but we are pleased to have Danielle back.
Little Rosa joins us in Starfish and has done so well settling in, well done Rosa! ❤️ ... See MoreSee Less
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We have had so much fun celebrating World Book Day in starfish today, our focus book was The Three Little Pigs. All the staff and children enjoyed dressing up as pigs and participating in a Three Little Pigs tuff tray activity, the children explored the dry weetabix using their fingers and hands to feel the texture. The children were introduced to words such as crunchy, crumbly and discussed the colour, the children were also exploring the different items such as wood and logs which are connected to the story.
Rainbow Dolphins celebrated World book day today with the book the Gruffalo. We made Gruffalo crumble which was made it bit harder by the Gruffalo as he kept trying to eat our Spoons and also the oats as we were trying to put them into the bowls and pans. We read the story of the Gruffalo and we thought it was funny seeing Chris dressed up as the Gruffalo.
The children in Dolphins have taken part in a range of different activities relating to The Gruffalo story, the children have had a tea party, been creating some delicious tiger food out in the garden and enjoyed reading the story and joining in themselves using the story sack.
Happy world book day from preschool! We’ve loved seeing everyone dress up as their favourite characters and really embrace the spirit of the day! We’ve had some lovely interactions and conversations: from everyone introducing themselves during key group time, to talking about our favourite books and singing their songs. We’ve had all kind of characters in our room today! We’ve caught bad guys with Spiderman, Batman and Robin, spoken to Thomas the tank engine’s driver, danced with the most beautiful princesses and even spotted a dinosaur and lion lurking around the corner. We’ve held dinner parties, told stories and built houses for each other too. It’s been such a magical day and everyone has helped make it so great! ... See MoreSee Less
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Today in starfish we have been celebrating pancake day! By doing this they have enjoyed exploring our flour activity, creating their own ‘pancakes’ using different utensils and bowls, while developing their own vocabulary as we introduced words such as flour, pour, scoop and mix. This activity was great for the babies’ fine motor skills and communication.
It’s pancake day and we have been having lots of fun in Rainbow Dolphins, we started off using tennis bats as makeshift frying pans and pretended the bean bags were pancakes, then we tried our hand at flipping them, the children loved using their imagination to flip the beanbag pancakes. We have also had a fun time making pancakes using playdough, we pretended they were actual pancakes and even stacked them on top of each other. We looked at the various ingredients that you usually have in pancakes such as milk and flour and some of the children even used our home corner to pretend to cook the playdough pancakes, very clever idea!
The Dolphins children have been celebrating Pancake Day today, they all enjoyed creating their own pancake pictures by colouring in different pieces of fruit and talking about what they would like to put on their pancakes. The children then stuck their selection of fruits onto their pancake (paper plate). The children were introduced to new words such as flour, sugar & eggs and were talking about different fruits such as cherries, melon & grapes wondering how these fruits might taste.
Happy pancake day from our preschoolers. We have had various activities relating to this exciting celebration such as drawing and decorating our own pancakes on paper and discussing together the types of toppings including sweet & savoury, we discussed the taste of lemon, strawberries, banana and chocolate spread and other toppings as a few of our children mentioned what they had on their pancakes at home. The children all worked together to create a ‘playdough’ pancake using yellow paint with a hint of brown to give it the real pancake look, the children loved this. We then went for a walk around the nursery for our resources to add to our playdough pancakes such as glitter & sprinkles. We discussed the safety of making pancakes and how the oven is hot and so the pan will be too, we spoke about always asking a grown up to help us, after this, we all took turns counting down from 5 to flip our pancake in the frying pan. What fun we had! ... See MoreSee Less
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Today in Starfish we have been celebrating St David’s Day. We have been looking at pictures of daffodils and dragons. The children then re-created their own pictures using their hands and fingers to paint onto the template using red and yellow paint to symbolise the dragons and daffodils.
Happy St David’s Day from Rainbow Dolphins, we have been looking at Dragons today as the flag of Wales has a red dragon on it, the children used coloured pencils to practice free drawing and decorate the pictures. We also had some real daffodils, that we looked at and smelt as well. The children said they smelt good.
Dolphin children have been creating their own colourful interpretations of St David day dragons and daffodils with colourful paints, we have been talking about what daffodils look and smell like along with what St David himself might have looked like.
In order to celebrate Saint David’s day, the preschool children have been talking about who he was - we discovered that he was a vegetarian who only ate leeks and drank water. We also found out that he performed miracles so we were discussing what we could do in nursery that would be our very own small miracles for each other. It prompted the loveliest conversations! We also found out that Wales is in the United Kingdom - right next to England! So, we practiced drawing the Welsh flag and some of us drew the most amazing dragons and daffodils, we think that they belong in museums! ... See MoreSee Less
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