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Welcome to Monkey Puzzle Tatsfield

Monkey Puzzle Tatsfield is prominently situated on the busy Church Hill, on the fringe of the popular ‘village’ of Tatsfield, between Biggin Hill, Oxted and Westerham.

The nursery provides facilities for children aged from 3 months through to preschool age and is registered as GOOD with Ofsted.

We have dedicated rooms for our various age ranges and each room reflects the seven areas of learning, as prescribed in the Early Years Foundation Stage. All of our facilities are designed to be accessible to every child. Alongside our dedicated rooms for Babies, Toddlers and Preschool children, Monkey Puzzle Tatsfield also offers several amazing outdoor spaces and gardens for the children to explore, including our own Forest School, run by our own fully qualified Forest School instructor.

Sharene has spent her entire working career in the Education Industry. Sharene has focused primarily on Higher Education, but diversifying into Early Childhood Development in the last few years where she was part-owner and Director of a Day Nursery in South Africa.

I would love to welcome and show you around our beautiful nursery setting so please get in touch.

Sharene

Nursery Owner

Tina - Monkey Puzzle Tatsfield Manager

The very youngest children at Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Tatsfield spend their time in our specially designed Babies’ room, welcoming children from the age of three months to two years old.


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Welcomed from the age of 24 months, children enjoy a space in Toddlers that matches their inquisitiveness and energy, with well-considered furnishings and learning resources accessible at all times.


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Preschool

Your child will embark on their preschool journey with us at around three years old, enjoying an enriching learning environment that fully supports their individual needs as well as the group activities and play.


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We’re just around the corner, with lots for you to discover…

  • Award winning nursery group

  • We are open Monday to Friday – 51 weeks of the year
  • Competitive pricing
  • Individual quality childcare
  • Key worker allocated to each child
  • Highly qualified and experienced staff
  • Full or half day sessions from 7.30 am to 6.30 pm
  • Nutritious, well-balanced home cooked hot meals
  • Large stimulating outdoor play area
  • Branded Nappies, wipes and creams all included in the price
  • State of the art learning equipment and resources
  • Sensory room
  • Car park available for drop-off and pick-up
  • Modern security systems, including CCTV cameras

Our fees are inclusive of freshly prepared breakfast, lunch, tea, snacks and drinks. Daily menus are carefully selected by a professional nutritionist to meet energy requirements of growing children.

If you would like to come in and have a look around our nursery, please give our manager a call on 01959 928427 and arrange a time that suits.

Ofsted Good Nursery Provider

To read a copy of our latest Ofsted report, please click on the link below:

Blossom Nursery App

Monkey Puzzle Tatsfield – 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.

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⭐️ Inset Day ⭐️

We started off with some training around ‘motivating boys’, which helped the staff to recognise and identify different teaching methods best suited for boys to help enable them to learn and develop new skills in an enjoyable and engaging way. Following on from this, the staff decided to look at their room provision and have a move around and make more defined and cosy areas.

We also did a fun team building challenge, where the staff worked in groups with people they don’t usually work with and they had to build a tower using marshmallows and spaghetti, the tallest tower won a prize.
Teamwork really does make the dream work 👏🏻👌

We then had the wonderful Katie from keep signing come and teach us all some Makaton signs that we can use daily and incorporate with our routines, we can’t wait to start teaching the children what we have learnt 👐

Finally, the staff were giving a budget and sent out in their rooms to go and find some new resources for the nursery and when they returned they had to explain what the ‘Intent’ of each resource was.
We are excitied to share these with the children this week. 🥰

#monkeypuzzledaynurseries #TN16 #insetday #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #tatsfieldmums #bigginhillmums #makaton
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⭐️ Inset Day ⭐️ 

We started off with some training around ‘motivating boys’, which helped the staff to recognise and identify different teaching methods best suited for boys to help enable them to learn and develop new skills in an enjoyable and engaging way.  Following on from this, the staff decided to look at their room provision and have a move around and make more defined and cosy areas.

We also did a fun team building challenge, where the staff worked in groups with people they don’t usually work with and they had to build a tower using marshmallows and spaghetti, the tallest tower won a prize. 
Teamwork really does make the dream work 👏🏻👌

We then had the wonderful Katie from keep signing come and teach us all some Makaton signs that we can use daily and incorporate with our routines, we can’t wait to start teaching the children what we have learnt 👐

Finally, the staff were giving a budget and sent out in their rooms to go and find some new resources for the nursery and when they returned they had to explain what the ‘Intent’ of each resource was.
We are excitied to share these with the children this week. 🥰

#monkeypuzzledaynurseries  #TN16 #insetday #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #tatsfieldmums #bigginhillmums #makatonImage attachmentImage attachment+Image attachment

☘️ Happy St Patrick’s Day ☘️

We hope you have a great day celebrating St Patrick’s Day.

#monkeypuzzledaynurseries #tatsfieldmums #bigginhillmums #stpatricksday2024 #shamrock
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☘️ Happy St Patrick’s Day ☘️ 

We hope you have a great day celebrating St Patrick’s Day.

#monkeypuzzledaynurseries #tatsfieldmums #bigginhillmums #stpatricksday2024 #shamrock

Science Week 🧪🧫🌡

It’s safe to say we have had a fun filled science week with lots of experiments taking place across the nursery each day, the children have thoroughly enjoyed each experiment and the learning intentions have exceeded their expectations, we have lots of mini scientists within our mists. 🔬⚗️

Our babies had fun exploring the dinosaur fizzing tray using pipettes to collect the liquid supporting the development of their fine motor skills, they also enjoyed observing the changes within their “storm in a jar” experiment.

The toddlers carried out the skittle experiment, they were amazed at the patterns it created in the finished result, they had fun taking part in a fizzing ice tray, freeing the sea animals, and observing the changes to the ice cubes as they melted and fizzed in the tray.

Our pre-schoolers had an exciting science week taking part in a range of experiments including making their own slime using chia seeds and observing the changes in each process, they also carried out the skittle experiment using different liquids and noticing the difference in changes in each one used, each child created their own “storm in a jar” using pipettes to activate the process. They experimented with making a red lava lamp potion to display within their room and lastly, in the garden they carried out the “volcano” experiment taking turns with each step and observing the intended outcome.

#monkeypuzzledaynurseries #monkeypuzzle #tatsfield #bigginhill #science #scienceweek2024 #experiment #scienceexperiment #nursery
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Science Week 🧪🧫🌡

It’s safe to say we have had a fun filled science week with lots of experiments taking place across the nursery each day, the children have thoroughly enjoyed each experiment and the learning intentions have exceeded their expectations, we have lots of mini scientists within our mists. 🔬⚗️

Our babies had fun exploring the dinosaur fizzing tray using pipettes to collect the liquid supporting the development of their fine motor skills, they also enjoyed observing the changes within their “storm in a jar” experiment. 

The toddlers carried out the skittle experiment, they were amazed at the patterns it created in the finished result, they had fun taking part in a fizzing ice tray, freeing the sea animals, and observing the changes to the ice cubes as they melted and fizzed in the tray.

Our pre-schoolers had an exciting science week taking part in a range of experiments including making their own slime using chia seeds and observing the changes in each process, they also carried out the skittle experiment using different liquids and noticing the difference in changes in each one used, each child created their own “storm in a jar” using pipettes to activate the process. They experimented with making a red lava lamp potion to display within their room and lastly, in the garden they carried out the “volcano” experiment taking turns with each step and observing the intended outcome.

#monkeypuzzledaynurseries #monkeypuzzle #tatsfield #bigginhill #science #scienceweek2024 #experiment #scienceexperiment #nurseryImage attachmentImage attachment+Image attachment

💐Happy Mother's Day💐

What better way to celebrate our amazing mummies, than inviting them into nursery for a Mother's Day tea, where they got to take part in some lovely activities with their child as well as indulge in some yummy cakes and chocolate covered strawberries 😋

We hope you all have a wonderful Mother's Day and get spoilt rotten!

#TN16 #monkeypuzzledaynurseries #mothersday #bigginhillmums #tatsfieldmums
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💐Happy Mothers Day💐

What better way to celebrate our amazing mummies, than inviting them into nursery for a Mothers Day tea, where they got to take part in some lovely activities with their child as well as indulge in some yummy cakes and chocolate covered strawberries 😋 

We hope you all have a wonderful Mothers Day and get spoilt rotten!

#TN16 #monkeypuzzledaynurseries #mothersday #bigginhillmums #tatsfieldmumsImage attachmentImage attachment+Image attachment

World Book Day📚📖

We have had so much fun dressing up as our favourite book characters to celebrate World Book Day and we wanted to share some of the snapshots that we captured throughout the day!

📕📗📘📙

#monkeypuzzledaynurseries #monkeypuzzle #tatsfield #bigginhillmums #worldbookday2024 #learningisfun #earlyyearseducation #readingisfun #EYFS
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World Book Day📚📖

We have had so much fun dressing up as our favourite book characters to celebrate World Book Day and we wanted to share some of the snapshots that we captured throughout the day!

📕📗📘📙

#monkeypuzzledaynurseries #monkeypuzzle #tatsfield #bigginhillmums #worldbookday2024 #learningisfun #earlyyearseducation #readingisfun #eyfsImage attachmentImage attachment+Image attachment

The Very Hungry Caterpillar🐛🦋

The babies had lots of fun engaging in a range of activities in line with their book of the week "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" including food tasting, painting, sensory trays and many more.

🍎🍐🍊🍉🍇🍓🫐🍒🥭🥥🍭🍰🍧🥧

#monkeypuzzletatsfield #monkeypuzzledaynurseries #theveryhungrycaterpillar #foodtasting #tatsfieldmums #bigginhillmums #babies #explore #painting #sensoryplay
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar🐛🦋

The babies had lots of fun engaging in a range of activities in line with their book of the week The Very Hungry Caterpillar including food tasting, painting, sensory trays and many more. 

🍎🍐🍊🍉🍇🍓🫐🍒🥭🥥🍭🍰🍧🥧

#monkeypuzzletatsfield #monkeypuzzledaynurseries #theveryhungrycaterpillar #foodtasting #tatsfieldmums #bigginhillmums #babies #explore #painting #sensoryplayImage attachmentImage attachment+Image attachment

Our babies enjoyed a "Nature Walk" today to collect natural resources to use in activities 🍂🪵🍁

#monkeypuzzletatsfield #monkeypuzzledaynurseries #nature #NatureExploration #naturalresources #eyfs #tatsfieldmums #bigginhillmums #explore
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Our babies enjoyed a Nature Walk today to collect natural resources to use in activities 🍂🪵🍁

#monkeypuzzletatsfield #monkeypuzzledaynurseries #nature #NatureExploration #naturalresources #eyfs #tatsfieldmums #bigginhillmums #exploreImage attachmentImage attachment+Image attachment

🎉Celebrating 8 years of service🎉

Congratulations to Rosy for her 8 years of service with us here at Monkey Puzzle Tatsfield.
Rosy is a bank member of staff, who works in all the rooms and always has a smile on her face, the children truely adore her as do we!
She has been a dedicated member of the team and we are so lucky to have her as part of our bank staff.

Thank you for everything you do and your dedication to MP Tatsfield, we really do appreciate it!😊

#monkeypuzzletatsfield #TN16 #bigginhillmums #tatsfieldmums #monkeypuzzledaynurseries #staffappreciation #8yearsofservice #dedication #StaffRecognition
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🎉Celebrating 8 years of service🎉

Congratulations to Rosy for her 8 years of service with us here at Monkey Puzzle Tatsfield.
Rosy is a bank member of staff, who works in all the rooms and always has a smile on her face, the children truely adore her as do we!
She has been a dedicated member of the team and we are so lucky to have her as part of our bank staff.

Thank you for everything you do and your dedication to MP Tatsfield, we really do appreciate it!😊

#monkeypuzzletatsfield #TN16 #bigginhillmums #tatsfieldmums #monkeypuzzledaynurseries #staffappreciation #8yearsofservice #dedication #StaffRecognition

🫓Pancake Day🫓

The children had lots of fun making their own pancakes for snack on Tuesday. We also made playdough together to role play pancake making too💛🧡

#monkeypuzzletatsfield #monkeypuzzledaynurseries #monkeypuzzle #tatsfield #bigginhillmums #bigginhill #pancakes #pancakeday #playdough #roleplay
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🫓Pancake Day🫓

The children had lots of fun making their own pancakes for snack on Tuesday. We also made playdough together to role play pancake making too💛🧡

#monkeypuzzletatsfield #monkeypuzzledaynurseries #monkeypuzzle #tatsfield #bigginhillmums #bigginhill #pancakes #pancakeday #playdough #roleplayImage attachmentImage attachment+Image attachment
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