Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Kettering offers children a great early years learning experience.
With rooms for various age ranges and each room reflects the seven areas of learning, as prescribed in the Early Years Foundation Stage.
Regular classes including music and movement sessions called ‘Hartbeeps’.
Fees are inclusive of freshly prepared breakfast, lunch, tea, snacks and drinks, branded nappies, wipes and creams.
Daily menus are selected by a professional nutritionist to meet energy requirements of children.
Funding & Fees
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Type of Service
- Day Nursery
Opening Schedule
Open all yearFull days available
YesHalf day sessions offered
NoGroup/Owner
- Monkey Puzzle Day Nurseries Ltd
- Private Owned
Person in charge
- Paige Law (Manager)
Number of Childcare Staff
- 12
Total Places for Children
- 65
Age Range
- from 0 years 3 months
- to 5 years 0 months
Meals Provided
NoConsumables provided
NoOpening Times
- Monday 07:30-18:30
- Tuesday 07:30-18:30
- Wednesday 07:30-18:30
- Thursday 07:30-18:30
- Friday 07:30-18:30
When Closed
- Bank Holidays & 1 week over Christmas
Parking
- The is a car park onsite for pick up and drop off.
Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Kettering Reviews (106)
Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Kettering has a Review Score of 9.8 (9.761) out of 10, based on 13 reviews in the last 2 years.
Over all time Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Kettering has 106 reviews.
From the get-go, we were presented with a very smiley and friendly welcome.
My wife attended a 'show around' and was instantly impressed with the facilities and how the staff interacted with the children.
As part of the settling in period, our child attended short sessions and felt instantly at home. Both my wife and I could see a difference in our child, he seemed much happier.
When our child started, we were given a login to an application which gives us daily updates on our child's activities during the day, pictures of our child playing and also a rundown of what had been eaten at lunchtime.
We feel confident that our child will thrive and continue to develop fully while attending Monkey Puzzle.
My wife and I would recommend Monkey Puzzle as they offer the whole package, finished off with a friendly smile.
It’s hard enough leaving your child but when you know they are safe and having fun, it makes it all that more easier!
The team at Monkey Puzzle Kettering are extremely caring and I feel so safe leaving my daughter with them. It was very difficult for me to do at first but I actually feel they are a little family and have complete trust in them.
My daughter has learnt so much since being there and I only wish she could go more often as she loves it so much.
Excellent nursery! All the staff are extremely professional and very friendly. The nursery is clean and secure. My daughter cannot wait to to go to school every week which says a lot about the staff here. Highly recommended!
The rooms are colourful, clean and filled with some fabulous toys.
Security is the best I’ve ever seen.
All staff are so smiley and friendly and take time out to speak to me when I collect her.
My Grandaughter is so happy there and if she’s happy then we’re happy.
I can truly say this place is home away from home. Friendly / accommodating staff, a range of activities, a variety of meals, beautiful ambience and total care. It feels like a personalised service to each child. What can be more rewarding than a child talking about all the fun / educative stuffs they did at nursery :). I love the attention to detail and I highly recommend to all family and friends. Top Notch in all aspects.
All staff is very friendly and helpful!
I’m very happy with Monkey Puzzle Nursery!
My son loves to go there.
My grandson has been coming here since October and I think he may be the youngest child here (11 months). Seeing the photos of him today 15.1.19 sitting down and doing some sticking melted my heart. The staff at this nursery are so pleasant and patient that they took the time to sit with him watching and helping if needed to do this and by the look on his little face he looked like he was having the time of his life. Thank you.
My son has settled in really quickly. Staff are really friendly and helpful which has helped him settle in so fast.
The manager is so helpful as are the staff, always welcoming with a smile on their face. Always wanting to help, food is excellent, facilities are excellent. Opening times are excellent and I am just so pleased I chose this nursery.
Lovely atmosphere throughout the nursery with friendly staff. My child is very happy here and loves going to nursery.
My grandson really enjoys his time at the nursery and loves to tell us about his day and the activities and the resources he has played with. He talks very fondly of the staff and is always happy when we pick him up. I have always found the staff to be very professional and approachable. They are very knowledgeable about the children in their care and give productive feedback to parents/carers about the child’s day, enabling parents and staff to work together as a team supporting their learning/development.
Staff are always smiling and very helpful. The use of the family app is brilliant and reassures me that everything is going ok and he’s eating etc. I'm very happy with Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery and my son loves the nursery.
Excellent nursery all round! My children have come on so much since enrolling at this nursery! They came right from day one of the Kettering Monkey Puzzle opening!
I am always greeted with a smile when arriving at the nursery. It's also nice that the staff truly take the time to get to know my son. My son now eats more at nursery then he does at home (such variety). He settled in with ease mainly due to the patience and flexibility of the staff and his key worker. I would highly recommend Monkey Puzzle Kettering.
The settling in was not easy for us in terms of my daughter being very attached to us (parents), so she would cry at drop off. However, most of the times she would have stopped before me leaving the nursery.
It was really important the fact that they were patient with both of us and they were always supportive. I greatly appreciate that.
I find the manager, really nice, knowledgeable and she managed to reassure me even when I thought I can’t do it.
My daughter's key person has been fantastic in bonding with my baby girl, getting her distracted (feeding the rabbit) and giving her cuddles when she needed.
I also think the cook and the rest of the girls are lovely and do a fantastic job.
It is a great nursery with lovely educational resources. I also like the creative and messy play activities.
I definitely recommend Monkey Puzzle.
my son loves Monkey Puzzle Nursery. We moved his setting in April and it was the best decision we made. The staff are friendly and cannot do enough to help and you are always informed with what is going on with the children.
Really high standard! Great staff who seem really on the ball with everything! The nursery was clean, tidy and engaging!
My little boy, who was crying at the beginning, ended up telling me he had ”big fun at nursery today“.
It is a very well-organised nursery with large open spaces to play. Beautiful garden. The learning process is documented in-learning journal.
I highly recommend to anyone.
Very good nursery, my son has been to 4 different care settings and Monkey Puzzle is the best I have seen yet. Both kids always happy when they are there and always asking to go on their days off. Friendly staff and lots of activities and toys to play with.
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- Recipient: Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery KetteringDate: Friday 29 Apr 2022
- Recipient: Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery KetteringDate: Tuesday 30 Apr 2019
- Recipient: Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery KetteringDate: Thursday 01 Mar 2018
Meet the Team (4)
Michelle is a Qualified Teacher holding a Bachelor of Education (Hons), Qualified teaching status as well as a Master of Arts Degree specialising in Early Years Education. She has been working in education and childcare for over 15 years, as well as bringing up her two children, who attend/attended their settings.
When asked why she wanted to work with children, Michelle replied ” I have always wanted to be work with children. I love their energy, honesty and their total love of everything fun and exciting. I really enjoy sharing new ideas and experiences with them. My hope is that I can create a fun, exciting and caring learning environment. I have a lot of patience, enthusiasm, creativity and enjoy helping children (and adults) to discover new things. I want to create an environment that is exciting and fun for the children and my staff. As long as children are given, love, support and encouragement they will succeed. Job satisfaction was the most important factor in choosing a career, and working with children, I believe, is the ultimate choice.”
Since moving to the UK, from South Africa in 2007, Michelle has worked for the National Autistic Society as a teacher creating highly motivating, sensory, dynamic and visually based lessons. After having her first child she branched out into Childminding and received an Outstanding from Ofsted. Michelle has experience of working with children who have multiple barriers to their learning with a vast array of needs and abilities. She hopes to pass on this knowledge to her staff and will use her previous experience as a sound base for coaching and staff development.
Michelle is a good people manager, believing that open honesty, clarity and consideration go a long way in inspiring the best from people. She has a strong work ethos and is highly adaptable, motivated and incredibly enthusiastic.
Michelle is a Qualified Teacher holding a Bachelor of Education (Hons), Qualified teaching status as well as a Master of Arts Degree specialising in Early Years Education. She has been working in education and childcare for over 15 years, as well as bringing up her two children, who attend/attended their settings.
When asked why she wanted to work with children, Michelle replied ” I have always wanted to be work with children. I love their energy, honesty and their total love of everything fun and exciting. I really enjoy sharing new ideas and experiences with them. My hope is that I can create a fun, exciting and caring learning environment. I have a lot of patience, enthusiasm, creativity and enjoy helping children (and adults) to discover new things. I want to create an environment that is exciting and fun for the children and my staff. As long as children are given, love, support and encouragement they will succeed. Job satisfaction was the most important factor in choosing a career, and working with children, I believe, is the ultimate choice.”
Since moving to the UK, from South Africa in 2007, Michelle has worked for the National Autistic Society as a teacher creating highly motivating, sensory, dynamic and visually based lessons. After having her first child she branched out into Childminding and received an Outstanding from Ofsted. Michelle has experience of working with children who have multiple barriers to their learning with a vast array of needs and abilities. She hopes to pass on this knowledge to her staff and will use her previous experience as a sound base for coaching and staff development.
Michelle is a good people manager, believing that open honesty, clarity and consideration go a long way in inspiring the best from people. She has a strong work ethos and is highly adaptable, motivated and incredibly enthusiastic.
Simon is one of our owners, and is responsible for all things building, site and maintenance. He is a qualified electrician holding 17th Edition city & Guilds, CDM Construction Design Manager, British Safety Council Level 2 ‘Risk Assessment, Fire Warden, LGWSETA trade Test-Electrician (SA), National N3 Certificate (SA).
Simon has the amazing task of creating and building special requests for our team as well as building, upgrading and our fantastic Nursery. He works tirelessly in repairing, building and generally making our Amazing Nursery even more awesome.
In 2015 Michelle and Simon opened their first Nursery, Monkey Puzzle Irthlingborough. Michelle managed this until late 2016. In 2017 Michelle & Simon opened their second beautiful setting Monkey Puzzle Kettering. Following on from the success of these two amazing settings in, July 2018 Michelle and Simon took over ownership of Monkey Puzzle Bedford.
Paige has been working for Monkey Puzzle for 4 years, she took over the Kettering branch in April 2023 and is leading the nursery to great success.
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