Welcome to Monkey Puzzle Tunbridge Wells
Monkey Puzzle Tunbridge Wells is located at 32-34, St Johns Road, Tunbridge Wells. Our nursery is close to the A26 and only a short drive from Tunbridge Wells train station, making us perfect for families working in the local area or commuting to the town centre.
Our friendly and supportive management and team provide a family feel and a home from home approach to childcare focusing on lots of love, nurture and care as priorities alongside our child centred curriculum.
We are proud of creating lots of bright, beautiful and exciting spaces for the children to play and explore providing the highest quality childcare to children aged from 3 months to 5 years.
We take great pride in being part of the vibrant town of Tunbridge Wells and are looking forward to extending and creating further links within the local community with Primary schools and additional services to further support our families with local exciting opportunities.
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.
Adding to this, we tailor our care to suit your child’s age. We achieve this by placing children into the following age categories: babies aged three to twelve months, toddlers from 12 to 24 months & toddlers aged 24 months to 36 months, and lastly preschool aged three to five years. Due to our rooms being equipped especially for these ages, we are able to provide that home-from-home feel.
We are very lucky to have extensive outdoor spaces in the nursery and a separate area for both babies and the older children to play and explore. Our outdoor environment offers a rich multi-sensory environment that is full of fun, stimulating and motivating activities for the children and we have specifically created indoor garden areas so all the children are able to enjoy the outdoors all year round.
We’re just around the corner, with lots for you to discover…
- Part of an award winning nursery group with over 30 years experience
- Dedicated rooms for Babies, Toddlers, Pre-School and School Readiness
- Open Mon-Fri 51 weeks a year – 7.30am – 6.30pm
- Delicious, healthy food prepared on site by our Nursery Chef
- Regular extracurricular activities including music and movement sessions, yoga and mindfulness, sports development
- A fully staffed team with additional team members to provide consistency and quality care
- Strong links within the local community through a range of outings
- Secure partnership with parents and a range of exciting family events and information sessions
- Beautiful, light rooms with cosy spaces and full of learning opportunities
- Air conditioning units in each room to ensure our children and team stay cool during warmer weather
- Extensive separate outdoor spaces for babies and older children
- Car parking for drop off and pick up
- Nappies, wipes and creams all included
- Close vicinity to excellent Primary schools
- Located within 5 minutes of train stations
Plus so much more. Get in touch today.
Monkey Puzzle Tunbridge Wells – 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.
🧸Teddy bear picnic🧸
Pre-school had a lovely teddy bears picnic, with the children bringing in their own teddies! The aim of the picnic was to teach the children independence, team work and table etiquette! 🍴
The children helped the adults to lay the table, placing down the table cloths, the plates, the cutlery and the tea cups. The children followed instructions and directions on how to make a sandwich, with the children choosing their toppings and working had to spread this over their bread! 🥪
The children had a lovely afternoon and thoroughly enjoyed their picnic! 🧺🍰 ... See MoreSee Less
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A week in the life of our babies! 👶🫧☁️
Our littlest children have had an absolute blast at Nursery this week, whether it’s making chocolate cake to celebrate National Chocolate Cake Day,🍫 participating in their weekly yoga sessions,🧘 learning about the emergency services🚓🚑 or having their music lesson with Sing with Ellie!🎤🎶
Come rain or shine, come messy play or curiosity play….our babies will make the most out of every single day! ☀️
We love to keep our little babies busy throughout the day, offering them lots of learning opportunities, supporting them to grow, develop and flourish! 👶🤍 ... See MoreSee Less
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⭐️January's employees of the month! ⭐️
We couldn’t possibly pick just one employee to celebrate this month… so we picked two!
Firstly, we would like to recognise Cleo for all her hard work and dedication to progressing her knowledge within the EYFS, planning activities, and the varying areas of safeguarding. Cleo has been willing to listen to all advice and happily welcomes any support to help her skills! Cleo works well as part of our Investigators team and has great bonds with her key children. 💖
We would also like to celebrate Josh, who is our pre-school room leader and our soon-to-be Forest School lead! Josh has worked extremely hard in the pre-school room, supporting the team to expand their knowledge of the outdoor area, the curiosity approach, and looking at ways to weave everyday items into activities to support the children’s knowledge. Josh also has lovely bonds with his key children and works hard to ensure parent partnerships are at the forefront of the preschool team's mind! 💛
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DIY…..Why not?! 👷🧱🪚
Our pre-schoolers have been engaging in some risk-assessed risky activities! They have explored using a saw, with adult support to create their own houses. Josh started by explaining the golden rules when it comes to using the saw and other tools. 🪚
The children took turns to use the saw, ensuring that it was at the correct angle to ensure it would effectively cut the wood. Once this was done, the children took turns using sandpaper to smooth all the edges and ensure they had no splinters! 🪵
Finally, the children used a real hammer, supported by Josh, and nailed the pieces of wood together creating their own houses! 🔨
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This week, we enjoyed a delightful walk as we explored a new park! It was wonderful to see the sun shining again! ☀️
As we strolled down the road, the children engaged enthusiastically with passers-by, greeting them with smiles and plenty of waves! 👋 One of our little friends was so filled with so much excitement that he couldn't stop pointing at everything around him. 🥺
At the park, we listened to a story about a kind koala before quickly rushing to the swings for some fun! Taking turns was a joyous experience, with each child brimming with excitement as they waited for their turn, one friend even shouting “more!!” as they were desperate to go higher and higher! We will definitely return to this park for more fun in the future! 🛝🥰 ... See MoreSee Less
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5️⃣Celebrating 5 years of (our camera shy) Jo!!!! 5️⃣
Jo is our wonderful nursery manager, who always goes above and beyond for every team member, child and family. Jo has been working for Monkey Puzzle since the day our Tunbridge Wells site opened, and has progressed the Nursery to a wonderful standard, reflected in our recent ✨GLOWING ✨audits.
During a recent team meeting we asked the team to share some comments about Jo, and what a delight it was to be able to share these with her and show all of our appreciation and gratitude!
To put it quite simply, Jo is the glue that keeps the nursery together, and she is the woman who makes it happen….ALWAYS! 🦸♀️
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A special evening celebrating 4 very special people!
4️⃣In fourth place is our lovely Lisa! Lisa is based within our pre school room and has such a natural affinity with the children, tuning in to their needs and interests. Lisa is extremely resilient and works hard to overcome barriers and challenges. “Lisa’s quiet calm approach puts my child at ease and helps me feel more relaxed about leaving my child here, she provides such comfort and it’s clear to see she really cares about the children!” 🏅
3️⃣In third place winning £400 is the fabulous Ruby, who works in our 2-3 room. Ruby works hard to create unique activities to stretch the children’s abilities and knowledge of the world around them. Ruby taps in to children’s likes, and based activities surrounding this and is a wonderful member of our team. “Ruby has really stretched my children’s abilities and on subjects such as volcanos and the structure of the earth - phenomenal, we are so grateful and she has been so wonderful at supporting his personal development!” 🥉
2️⃣In second place winning an amazing £600 is MOLLY! Molly won second place last year, and has won this again, very well deserved! Molly works with our littlest friends in our baby room, providing high quality care and love to all the babies. “He loves going to nursery and we know he adores his Mol Mol, thanks for all the effort and energy you put in.”
1️⃣Winning our first place prize of £1500 is……ROSIE! 💖 Rosie is based in our toddler room supporting and educating our 1-2 year olds. “Rosie is simply incredible in every way, I have never came across a member of staff who is more welcoming and goes above and beyond for all children, especially her key children, we are so lucky she is our key person! Rosie provides outstanding care and knowing that my daughter adores Rosie makes me feel happy and secure to know my daughter is in excellent hands.” 🥇
Please join us in congratulating these phenomenal team members, very very well deserved! 💖 ... See MoreSee Less
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A HUGE shoutout to our fabulous kitchen team, Ros and Emma who achieved a 5 start hygiene rating in today’s environmental health inspection! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ros and Emma have a very important job of catering for up to 94 children per day, taking into account each child’s individual dietary need, whether it is an allergy, intolerance, preference or a child is weaning. They also create our quarterly menus based on families suggestions and in line with the NHS and EYFS guidelines ensuing all meals are packed with all the necessary nutrients👩🍳 👩🍳
The children love seeing Ros and Emma around the nursery (whether they are carrying food trays or not!!!)💛
A very well done ladies, we expected nothing less! 😉⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ... See MoreSee Less
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What a special morning we have had! Santa has came to MPTW to visit us in our grotto and gave our children a present each!🎅🎁
The children couldn’t believe their eyes when they entered our magical grotto! There were plenty of laughs, smiles and core childhood memories created🥺 We hope he will come back and visit us very soon……🎄🎅🎁❄️ ... See MoreSee Less
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