Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Cambridge, Regent Terrace

12-13 Regent Terrace, Cambridge CB2 1AA
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9.6 47 Reviews
  • Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Cambridge, Regent Terrace, Cambridge
Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Cambridge 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 include sports from a specialist team of sports coaches.

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.
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Type of Service

  • Day Nursery
  • Open all year
  • Full Day Care
  • Sessional Day Care

Group/Owner

Person in Charge

  • Maggie Whiteside (Nursery Manager)

Number of Childcare Staff

  • 18

Total Places for Children

  • 59

Age Range

  • from 0 years 3 months
  • to 4 years 11 months

Funding & Fees

  • You will be pleased to hear that we are eligible to receive government funding so children can have 15 hours funded nursery education and care per week starting the term after their second birthday. As we are open for 51 weeks of the year we offer the funding on a stretched claim which means that children access 11.4 hours a week over the whole year. Non-funded hours are charged at a normal rate. Please see our website for further fee information.
    Please send us an email for further information.

Opening 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 & Christmas

Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Cambridge, Regent Terrace Reviews (47)

9.6

Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Cambridge, Regent Terrace has a Review Score of 9.6 (9.628) out of 10, based on 19 reviews in the last 2 years.
Over all time Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Cambridge, Regent Terrace has 47 reviews.

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Review from P B (Mother of Child) published on 17 April 2019 Submitted via Postal Card • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
My son has been for almost 1 year in this nursery. Since day 1, my family was so welcomed and felt secure like at home.
The staff are all so kind and friendly.
My son just loves to go there. I would not expect a better place. We just love it and his development has been incredibly fast since he goes
to nursery.
Perfect second home. Thank you.
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Review from Monika F (Mother of Child) published on 3 October 2018 Submitted via Postal Card • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
We are very happy with the nursery and our child settled in quickly thanks to all the staff in the baby group. Kids participate in lots of activities and messy play. The food is very varied and looks delicious. Overall, a very good review!
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Review from R L (Mother of Child) published on 5 July 2018 Submitted via Postal Card • Report
Overall Experience 4.0 out of 5
It was made very easy for us to know our son would settle in really easily and not worry about him.
The daily updates help so we know he has eaten and slept well and photos of his activities are always a joy to see. Always full smiles, learning new things so quickly and picking up things/skills so
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Review from I R (Mother of Child) published on 3 July 2018 Submitted via Website • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
Our child is very happy at Monkey Puzzle Cambridge and we are very satisfied with the nursery. The staff are very friendly and obviously care very much for the children under their care. They take time to tell me each day how our child's day has been and are interested to hear about their weekend in
case there are new skills or activities they can follow up on and build at nursery. The baby room offers a wide variety of planned and spontaneous activities, and children have access to books, toys, role play, messy play etc. The learning plan is useful to help us monitor our child's development, and the online log helps us feel connected to their day. The only difficulty we have is that our child is sleeping very little at nursery, but that's not for want of the staff trying!
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Review from E G (Mother of Child) published on 29 June 2018 Submitted via Postal Card • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Cambridge is a creative and caring environment. The members of staff, as well as the management team, try their best to follow children's individual learning journey. The outdoor spaces provided the children with the opportunity to engage with a variety of activities while
supporting their development. The members of staff are well qualified and support their children with a variety of group or individual activities. Overall a good value for money experience.
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Review from Amy M (Mother of Child) published on 28 June 2018 Submitted via Postal Card • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Cambridge is a fun, friendly and engaging place for our daughter and very welcoming to us as parents. The staff are absolutely brilliant so engaged and enthusiastic and know the children so well. We couldn't be happier with the care and learning for our daughter.
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Review from Joanna C (Mother of Child) published on 28 June 2018 Submitted via Postal Card • Report
Overall Experience 5.0 out of 5
We have really enjoyed the last 10 months with our son at Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Cambridge. The staff are fantastic, so thoughtful, hardworking and so brilliant with our son. When he started he was very shy and lacked confidence with other children, 10 months on he is a different child! They have
helped him so much and he loves the constant activities, baking, group time, trips to the library and of course playing outside. We are delighted with Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Cambridge and very impressed with management and consistency of staff. (Our son is in the 'Pre-School Room').
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Current Review Score: 9.6 (9.628)

Overview of Review Score

The Review Score of 9.6 (9.628) out of 10 for Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Cambridge, Regent Terrace is based on a) the Average Rating and b) the number of positive Reviews.

  1. The Average Rating is 4.6 out of 5 from 19 Reviews in the last 24 months.
  2. The score for the number of positive Reviews is 5.0 out of 5 from 18 positive Reviews in the last 24 months.

Detailed Breakdown of Review Score

The maximum Review Score for a Day Nursery is 10, which is made up from the Average Rating of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) and the Number of Reviews (maximum of 5 points) in the last 24 months:

  1. 5 Points are available for the Average Rating from all Reviews in the last 24 months. The Average Rating of 4.628 for Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Cambridge, Regent Terrace is calculated as follows: ( (183 Excellents x 5) + (26 Goods x 4) + (5 Satisfactorys x 3) + (12 Very Poors x 1) ) ÷ 226 Ratings = 4.628
  2. 5 Points are available for the number of Positive Reviews in the last 24 months. A Positive Review is defined as any Review with an 'Overall Experience' of '4' or '5' (out of a max rating '5'). The 5 Points relating to the number of positive Reviews for Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Cambridge, Regent Terrace is based on 18 positive Reviews in the last 24 months and is calculated as per below:

    The 5 points available are broken down as follows:

    1. 4 points are available for the first 10 Positive Reviews in the last 24 months; 3 points for the first Positive Review, and then 0.125 Points for each of the next four Positive Reviews and then 0.1 Points for the next five Positive Reviews. (1st = 3.000, 2nd = 0.125, 3rd = 0.125, 4th = 0.125, 5th = 0.125, 6th = 0.100, 7th = 0.100, 8th = 0.100, 9th = 0.100, 10th = 0.100) 3 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.125 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 = 4
    2. 1 point is available for the number of Positive Reviews reaching 20% of the number of registered child places in the last 24 months. If this number is partially reached, then that proportion of 1 point is given. eg a Day Nursery registered for a maximum of 50 child places has to reach 10 Positive Reviews to receive 1 point, if it has 7 reviews it will receive 0.7 points. 20% of the 59 number of registered child places is 11.8, which has been reached with 18 Positive reviews. Points = 1
  3. When a Review is submitted by someone who has previously submitted a Review, only the latest Review will count towards the Review Score.
  4. If a Day Nursery does not have a review in the last 24 months, then it will not have a Review Score.

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Meet the Team (2)

Thulie

Thulie T

Job Title: Nursery Owner and Director Joined: 2017

My name is Thulie and I am a mother to three beautiful children. I spent a considerable amount of time in Sweden and I was very impressed by their take on nursery and pre-school learning, which focuses on child-led learning and creativity, in addition to using the outdoors to encourage exploratory learning. I believe this helps the children at this tender age to develop in leaps and bounds, compared to their peers who are not actively exploring and utilising the natural spaces around them.


I have worked in the City specialising in Finance roles, within multinational companies. Prior to that, I worked in management roles in Social Care, supporting young adults with Autism and Learning Difficulties. The experience I gained in this sector has given me a solid understanding of the importance of Safeguarding, Health and Safety and Compliance within a setting as well as providing a caring and stimulating environment for the people we care for every day.


My promise to parents, who choose to entrust us with their children, is that I will personally work with our very experienced manager and team to create a home-from-home environment for their children and can be confident that their children are getting the best care, cuddles and comfort.

Maggie

Maggie Whiteside

Job Title: Nursery Manager Joined: 2023

I have been working in the Early Years sector for 23 years and have 13 years managerial experience.
I joined Monkey Puzzle as a Nursery Practitioner in 2022 in the baby room and I had a wonderful time working with an experienced team and became a Manager in January of 2023. I have had so many rewarding moments during my time working with children and families and I am committed to doing my best to ensure every child in our care has days filled with
happiness.


Teamwork is crucial to offering high-quality childcare and Monkey Puzzle offers continuous professional development enabling practitioners to enhance their knowledge and skills and progress within the team.

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