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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At Monkey Puzzle Colchester all our children are lucky enough to participate in a wide range of activities which include Yoga, the children really enjoy this activity where they can either chill out on the mat to some soft easy listening music and do some stretching or for the more active child they can mirror our lovely instructor and learn how to balance like a tree or gently warm up and attempt some poses.
We also have tennis time, where the children can practice their throwing and catching skills along with learning to take turns, sharing the equipment, working on their hand to eye coordination which they have great fun doing and truly enjoy themselves.
Our Spanish teacher comes in every week and helps our pre-school children to experience and understand a different language and culture other than their own, they avidly listen and act out all the new words they are learning and attempt to copy and pronounce this new and exciting language.
All the children love it when Jo Jingles visits us at Monkey puzzle with her music and movement games, where we learn many new and stimulating activities such as Communication & Language, Listening skills, Numeracy skills, Physical capability, Creativity & imagination, Memory, Personal social & emotional development, every day is an opportunity to explore our imagination and learn through play. ... See MoreSee Less
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We love coming to Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Colchester 😍
Happy New Year to all our families, children and staff at Monkey Puzzle Colchester.
Wishing you all an amazing 2025! ... See MoreSee Less
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Merry Christmas everyone! At monkey puzzle, we have been very excited preparing for the most wonderful time of the year. All through the festive month we have had some amazing Christmas learning opportunities. Every room has been decorated beautifully by all the children and staff! In starfish, the children have been exploring lots of different Christmas tuff trays learning through their different senses. The children enjoyed making a melting snowman with gloop, mixing the cornflour and water together and experiencing the changes of state with their hands. Preparing for Christmas, the babies have been decorating their own personalised stockings. The babies especially loved an orange and cinnamon tray, enjoying the different Christmas smells. In Rainbow Dolphins, the children became reindeer and elves using Christmas hats and headbands. To celebrate Christmas jumper day, the children decorated their own Christmas jumper with their choosing of different resources and lots of glitter of course! Rainbow Dolphins made their own snow using crazy foam, which they enjoyed feeling between their fingers. Some of the teachers used the foam to become Santa with his beard, to which the children copied. In Dolphins, the children have been doing some junk modelling using cardboard boxes to form their own Christmas tree for them to decorate. Using the shaving foam, the dolphin children made their own snowmen by shaping the snowman body and finding different loose parts to create the snowman face! Lots of Christmas singing and dancing was done by the Dolphin children, allowing them to move freely in their own way. In Preschool, lots of different Christmas discussions have been held. One activity the children enjoyed was making their own Christmas dinner plate. The children practised their cutting skills by cutting each side of their Christmas dinner and used the glue stick to stick what they would want on their dinner. The children became bakers and made their own mince pies, taking turns rolling & cutting the pastry and scooping the filling into the pies. Using real leaves, the children cut them up and made their own Christmas tree. To work on the children’s gross motor skills and hand eye coordination they made reindeer soup, attempting to cut different fruits and vegetables using knife safety. The children then transported these to the water tray to mix all together for the reindeer. We have had such a fun filled month, we would like to wish everyone a merry Christmas and happy new year from all of us at Monkey Puzzle. ... See MoreSee Less
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Wishing everyone a very happy Christmas and hope Santa left you lots of presents xxxxx
Happy 5 year anniversary to Lauren and Amy!
Congratulations to you both marking your 5 year anniversary with Monkey Puzzle Colchester. You’re both superstars and wishing you many more happy years ahead! 🥳 🎉 ... See MoreSee Less
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EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR FOR 2024
Superbly well deserved, loved by staff, loved by children and loved by parents. A wonderful person at the nursery who we adore and respect very much. We feel privileged to work alongside you and you are a constant beacon of positivity. Your love for children and passion for early years never goes unrecognised and you are an ambassador for the early years as well as Monkey Puzzle Colchester.
Congratulations to Amy! 🏆 🥇 ... See MoreSee Less
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Congrats Amy x
Congratulations Amy 👏
REINDEERS VISIT MONKEY PUZZLE COLCHESTER
Christmas festivities continue at Monkey Puzzle this week. Today we had ‘Dancer’ and ‘Steve’ the Reindeer visit the children at nursery today. What a wonderful experience we had! Local passers by from Stanway even came to have a visit and joined in with the excitement.
Countdown to Christmas is drawing closer…… 🧑🎄🎄 ... See MoreSee Less
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Brilliant the children loved seeing the reindeer today
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CHRISTMAS PANTO RETURNS TO MONKEY PUZZLE - Search for Santa
We were so excited to welcome back Shooting Star Entertainments to showcase the lovely pantomime ‘Search for Santa’ for our pre school children. The children sat beautifully whilst they watched the pantomime and fully immersed themselves in the theatrical performance. Well done pre school! ... See MoreSee Less
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HO HO HO - Part 2 Christmas Lunch ... See MoreSee Less
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HO HO HO - Santa and his Elf arrived at Monkey Puzzle today to visit our nursery children. We all went to visit Santa and his Elf in their beautiful grotto and we all received a special gift from them.
The fun didn’t stop there….this was followed by a delicious Christmas lunch which we all thoroughly enjoyed with our teachers and friends.
Hope you enjoy our Part 1 photos….. ... See MoreSee Less
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Well done everyone