with Monkey Puzzle
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.
Monkey Puzzle Colchester – Facebook
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.
All the children here at Monkey Puzzle Colchester have been taking part in a wide range of activities to mark Remembrance Day.
Starfish children have been looking at poppies; we felt the different textures and played with the coloured playdough. The children have also painted poppies using a paint brush and their fingers, we also used coloured paper. We made poppy prints using apples cut in half and dipped in paint, and we learnt the colours red, and green.
The children in Rainbow Dolphins all took part in some lovely activities relating to Remembrance Day, we spoke about the poppies and created our own poppies using oats and mixing the oats with red and black paint, we also painted some poppies while looking at our crochet poppies for inspiration, the children loved exploring these, we also created a focus table activity with soldiers and poppies around the table and briefly spoke about what the poppies represent.
The children in Dolphins have created their own poppies using a paper plate and they also enjoyed sticking red and black paper to decorate the poppy.
Children in Pre-school have been learning about the importance of the eleventh November at eleven o’clock we did a two-minute silence with the children. We talked about how soldiers fought in the war, and that many lost their lives. In addition, we discussed the different colour poppies, red, purple, black, white and what they represent. We were able to use technology to see if we can identify the shadows that match the picture. We had various other activities of cutting skills, printing, playdough, threading, water play with animals and we made a reef with all the various colours to represent Remembrance. ... See MoreSee Less
1 CommentsComment on Facebook
Our dedicated nursery team recently took part in a comprehensive Paediatric First Aid course to further strengthen their knowledge and confidence in keeping children safe. The training covered a wide range of essential skills, including how to respond to choking, allergic reactions, head injuries, burns, and other common childhood emergencies.
By taking part in this course, our staff refreshed and expanded their ability to act quickly and effectively in emergency situations—providing reassurance to both parents and carers that children are in safe, capable hands every day.
We’re proud of our team’s commitment to maintaining the highest standards of care, safety, and professionalism. ... See MoreSee Less
0 CommentsComment on Facebook
Last week at Monkey Puzzle Colchester, everyone was treated to lunch by Sandy & Manjit! How lucky are we :-) We all enjoyed the pizza etc.
Thank you very much Sandy & Manjit! We all really appricate your kindness :-) ... See MoreSee Less
0 CommentsComment on Facebook