Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery is conveniently located in Chesham Town Centre, next door to Thomas Harding School. The nursery is set in a converted building with facilities for children aged from three months to five years. There are five well equipped areas for Babies, Tweenies, Tweenies 2, Toddlers and Pre-School. Both outside play areas are equipped with the latest impact resistant floor surface to ensure peace of mind when the inevitable tumbles occur.
Monkey Puzzle serves organic foods (where possible) to the children and all food is freshly prepared on site. Monkey Puzzle is conveniently located close to Chesham Train Station and the Metropolitan Train Line into London. Our opening hours are designed to appeal to most of our customers.
The Nursery is split into four age groups:
· Babies
Our babies benefit from an open plan day room which is well equipped with the latest equipment to stimulate the babies senses during their formative months. An attractive relaxing separate dedicated sleep room has space for up to six babies. In addition the babies have their own dedicated changing facilities, wet kitchen and age appropriate outside play area. Babies and Tweenies go for a walk most days weather permitting.
· Tweenies and Tweenies 2
The Tweenies room focuses on the needs of babies once they become mobile. Again, a dedicated well appointed room with high quality equipment is provided for the Tweenies to follow the ‘birth to three matters’ framework which encourages learning through play. Within their room there are several areas including a cosy area where Tweenies are read stories, sand and water play, a soft block, ball pool and climbing frame area for the children to develop their physical skills, a construction area to develop coordination and a ‘messy area’ for painting and sensorial play.
Our Tweenies 2 room focuses on the needs of children aged approximately 18 months to 2 years with a wide range of age appropriate equipment and resources. Throughout the sessions we enjoy a lot of messy and sesnorial play both inside and outside as well as creative, physical, social and emotional, language and literacy and mathematical learning and development.
· Toddlers
Our Toddler room focuses on children aged two to three years where we still follow the ‘birth to three matters’ framework and the focus is still on learning and developing through play. Our toddler room has creative areas, a reading corner, circle time and a home corner areas. As this is also the time when the majority of children start potty training, the toddler room is equipped with it own age appropriate childrens’ toilet facility, encouraging independence. Our Toddlers also benefit from their own well equipped outside play area fitted with impact flooring.
· Pre-School
Our Pre-School children follow the ‘early years foundation stage’ preparing them for their eventual move to school. This is a far more structured routine, with children working in small groups and learning to concentrate for longer periods of time. They also become far more independent, pouring their own drinks, serving their own food, laying the table and learning how to use a computer. Topics covered are based on the following six areas of learning: physical development, personal, social and emotional development, language and literacy, creative development, knowledge and understanding of the world and mathematics. Pre-Schoolers have their own fully accessible, brightly decorated children’s toilets and well a equipped age appropiate outside play area.
