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.
Sensory & Messy play in our Infant Suite.
Starfish children have enjoyed exploring a range of sensory activities, such as oats, crazy foam and flour.
The children have been using their fine and gross motor skills to discover a range of different materials which include silk cloths & scarves, sensory see through balls with many different contents including shells, feathers, glitter, ribbon & wooden beads, shiny foil and rubber sensory tiles.
We have introduced the Starfish children to lots of new words from “That’s not my …… “ books such as rough, bumpy and squashy. The children have used their fingers and senses to discover many different textures, having great fun and enjoying themselves while learning at the same time. ... See MoreSee Less
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Our son is so happy at Monkey Puzzle. He positively jumps out of our arms in the mornings and runs in with a smile on his face. His vocabulary has broadened so much in the last few months and we are always amazed when he shows us new words he has learned. He is very clearly so well cared for and we could not wish for a more nurturing environment for him to grow in.
* Really kind review from one our parents in the baby room (infant suite) * ❤️ ... See MoreSee Less
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Danielle Hoggarth @ Sade Brown❤️
Anuradha Dissanayake one of the biggest stars of Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Colchester ❤️❤️❤️
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY FROM MONKEY PUZZLE COLCHESTER
We had lots of fun decorating biscuits in Starfish. The babies enjoyed using their senses to smell, feel and taste the icing sugar. The children also enjoyed exploring the play dough and oats activities, using their fingers to feel different textures and introducing new describing words such as smooth, soft and squishy.
Rainbow Dolphins looked at the colour red when using a heart shaped stencil to make our Valentines cards. We also used the red wooden blocks to try and fill in the hearts with them.
Dolphins had great fun this week, they made red love heart playdough and added red glitter for extra texture and shine, the children also added red colouring and red glitter to their water play where they practiced their pouring skills.
Pre school created some beautiful cards for the people we love, the children chose all the resources they needed or wanted on their own cards. We spoke about the people we love and who we live with in our house, and this encouraged our friends to communicate freely to one another about who they love or who they live with. ... See MoreSee Less
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HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!
Today, some of the children from preschool went to visit the residents of Loganberry Lodge care home for Valentine’s Day, we all created a lovely crafted card and decorated some biscuits to take to the care home. All children were very kind and asked each resident if they would each like a biscuit.
We all enjoyed their company, we shared lots of conversation, laughs and interests while engaging in some activities, such as colouring in lovely Valentine’s Day pictures, singing songs using their instruments and passing the balloon into the air.
We were also greeted by some big balloons and some of us enjoyed seeing one of the resident’s toy dogs.
We all did so well walking to the home and holding our friends’ hands when crossing the road whilst remembering to look left and right.
Well done pre school! ... See MoreSee Less
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MONKEY PUZZLE COLCHESTER STAFF BENEFITS
One of the staff perks we offer to our lovely dedicated team are payment towards driving lessons, and we are proud to have supported several members over the years.
Currently we have Kelly from Dolphins team who is taking advantage of the great benefit and is taking lessons with the lovely June Musson, from Skillld Drivers. ... See MoreSee Less
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Such a nice thing to do 🫶🏻
Recently in preschool we’ve opened up our Monkey café. The children have helped their peers throughout the nursery by cutting up fruit for everyone’s morning snack.
Through this they have gained so much confidence and improved on their relationships with their friends. They’ve gained a better appreciation for hygiene and hand washing and enjoyed becoming chefs, wearing their mini aprons and chef hats!
They have loved seeing where their food has come from and contributing, cutting up fruits into different shapes and sizes and handing it out the other rooms across the nursery. ... See MoreSee Less
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Monkey Puzzle Colchester is so pleased to announce that lovely Amy had her beautiful baby boy this week, called Austin. Congratulations to the whole family and we can’t wait to have lots of cuddles with the new baby 💙 ... See MoreSee Less
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Congratulations Amy , hope you’re all doing well 👶🏻 💙 xx
Congratulations x
Congratulations Amy xxx
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