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From our Daynurseries.co.uk reviews, find out what our parents have to say about their time at our Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery and Preschool in New Cross.
Hear what our parents and carers have to say about our Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery and Preschool in New Cross with a selection of reviews from Daynurseries.co.uk.
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How To Find Monkey Puzzle New Cross
Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery New Cross is proudly located at 296 Queens Road, New Cross, London SE14 5JN. We’re nestled in the heart of the local community, just a short walk from New Cross Gate, Queens Road Peckham, and Nunhead train stations—offering easy access across London and the Borough of Lewisham.
Our beautifully converted nursery building features bright, open-plan rooms designed to inspire children’s learning and development, along with secure outdoor play areas, including a private baby garden and free-flow spaces for toddlers and preschoolers.
We are ideally placed to serve families across New Cross, Peckham, Nunhead, and the surrounding areas, providing high-quality childcare for children aged 3 months to 5 years.
Monkey Puzzle Newcross
16 Snakes Lane, Newcross, Newcross Green IG8 0BS
Opening times: 7:30am to 6:30pm
Monday to Friday for 51 weeks per year, (closed for the week between Christmas and New Year)
💦🖌️ Making Marks Disappear in Preschool! 🖌️💦
Our Preschoolers have been exploring a fun and exciting mark-making activity with a little bit of magic involved! ✨💚
Our practitioners drew different chalk lines and patterns onto the table, and our little learners were given paintbrushes and water to trace over them and watch the chalk marks disappear! 😮🎨
The children loved following the lines, moving their brushes across the table and discovering what happened when the water met the chalk. From wiggly waves to zigzags and curves, there were plenty of opportunities to practise their movements while having lots of fun! 🌊〰️〽️
This simple but engaging activity supports so many important skills, including:
🖐️ Fine motor development and control
👀 Hand-eye coordination
✍️ Early mark-making and pre-writing skills
🧠 Concentration, observation and problem-solving
💧 Curiosity and exploring cause and effect
We love finding creative ways to make learning exciting! Sometimes, the simplest activities create the biggest smiles and give our little learners wonderful opportunities to explore, experiment and develop new skills. 🥰🌈
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🌈🧸 Busy Babies and Tuff Tray Adventures! 🧸🌈
Our Babies have been busy exploring a wonderful range of sensory tuff trays, each offering exciting opportunities to discover, investigate and learn through play! 🥰✨
🐮🌾 Our little farmers explored a farm-themed tray filled with colourful rice, animals and different textures, using their senses to discover the world around them.
🌈🎨 We also explored a colourful sensory tray filled with ribbons, sensory bottles, soft fabrics and textured balls, encouraging our little ones to reach, grasp, touch and investigate! 🤲💖
🚌🚗 Vroom, vroom! Our little explorers got moving with our The Wheels on the Bus themed tray, using toy vehicles and a variety of natural textures to bring this familiar favourite to life! 🎶💛
These hands-on experiences support our babies’ sensory development, fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and early communication, while encouraging curiosity, exploration and those all-important first discoveries! 🌟👶
We love creating exciting opportunities for our youngest learners to explore the world at their own pace, because even the smallest hands can make the biggest discoveries! 💕🌱
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Our Deputy Room Leaders, Dara and Nicole, have swapped to their Leadership Team colours!
As they move from red to black we are so excited to see the impact they will have on their teams!
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🎉💛 HAPPY 4-YEAR ANNIVERSARY, JHULY! 💛🎉
Join us in celebrating Jhuly’s incredible 4-year anniversary with Monkey Puzzle New Cross! 🥳🌟💐
Over the past four years, Jhuly has been a valued and much-loved member of our team, sharing her care, dedication and support across both our Toddler and Baby Rooms. 👶🧸💕
We are so grateful for everything she brings to our nursery, from the love and nurturing she gives our little learners to the support she provides to her colleagues every single day. 🥰✨
Jhuly, thank you for being such a treasured part of our Monkey Puzzle family! 💛 Here’s to celebrating everything you’ve achieved over the past four years and to many more wonderful memories together! 🥂🎊
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🤧💛 Introducing our NEW Sniffle Stations! 💛🤧
We are so excited to introduce our brand-new Sniffle Stations across all our rooms at Monkey Puzzle New Cross! 🌈✨
Each station is thoughtfully equipped with a mirror 🪞, a tissue box 🤧, a bin 🗑️ and a handy step-by-step guide to help our little learners practise blowing their noses! 👃💕
These little stations are a fantastic way to encourage independence and help our children develop those all-important self-care and personal hygiene skills from an early age. 🌟🧼
With support and encouragement from our wonderful practitioners, our children can learn how to recognise when they need a tissue, practise blowing their noses, check themselves in the mirror and dispose of their tissues appropriately! 🥰👏
It’s all about building confidence, developing healthy habits and empowering our little learners to do more for themselves, one small step at a time! 💛🌱
Because even the smallest self-care skills are BIG milestones worth celebrating! 🎉💕
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🍓🥣 TASTY TUESDAYS IN TODDLERS! 🥣🍓
Our little chefs have been busy creating some AMAZING yoghurt pots for this week’s Tasty Tuesday! 😋💗
With creamy yoghurt, delicious fruit and crunchy granola, our two-year-olds carefully put together their very own sweet and tasty creations! 🍌🫐🍓✨
There was so much to explore, from scooping and pouring to choosing their favourite toppings and layering all their yummy ingredients. 🥄👩🍳
Activities like these are a wonderful way to encourage independence, develop fine motor skills, explore different textures and flavours, and build positive relationships with food. 🌈🤲
We are so proud of our little chefs for getting involved and creating such delicious treats! Who knew learning could be so YUMMY? 🥰💕
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💛✨ Connection, Laughter & Joy ✨💛
As Miranda beautifully said, “To meet someone and just play and laugh, it’s all us humans need.” 🥹💕
And we couldn’t agree more! 🥰 At Monkey Puzzle New Cross, we believe that some of life’s most meaningful moments come from the simplest things — a shared laugh, a playful moment, a warm smile or simply being there for one another. 🌈🤗
Connection, laughter and joy are at the heart of everything we aim to provide, not only for our wonderful children, but also for our dedicated team and the amazing families who make up our community. 💛🏡
Whether it’s children building friendships through play, our practitioners sharing special moments together, or families connecting with one another, we want Monkey Puzzle New Cross to be a place where everyone feels welcomed, valued and part of something special. 🫶🌟
Because sometimes, it’s the little moments, the giggles, the connections and the memories we make together that mean the most. 💕✨
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🩷🍓 Keeping the Pink Party Going in Toddlers! 🍓🩷
We’re continuing to sprinkle the pink around Monkey Puzzle New Cross, and this time our Toddlers have been getting busy in the kitchen with some delicious Rice Krispie treats! 🥣✨💕
Our little chefs had so much fun making their tasty treats and decorating them with sweet pink frosting! 🧁🎀 There were plenty of opportunities for little hands to get creative, explore textures and enjoy the excitement of making something special together! 🥰👩🍳
As we continue to show our support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we’re loving finding fun and meaningful ways to bring a little extra pink into our days! 💗🌸
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🎨💛 All About Me! 💛🎨
Our Preschoolers have been exploring their focus book, So Me, discovering all the wonderful ways we are different, what makes our families special and how we change and grow as we get older! 📚🌈✨
As part of their learning, the children have been busy creating their very own self-portraits, capturing what they look like today! 🖌️🪞 This sparked some lovely conversations about how we all looked a little different when we were babies and how much we have grown since then! 🥰👶
To bring their learning to life, we had a very special visitor from our Baby Room! 💕 Our Preschoolers loved meeting one of our youngest learners and had the opportunity to talk with their key person about all the things babies need to stay happy, healthy and safe. 🍼🧸 From milk and sleep to cuddles, comfort and lots of love, the children explored how these needs were just as important when they were babies themselves! 💗
Activities like these encourage our little learners to develop their understanding of themselves and others, build empathy and kindness, and appreciate the many ways we grow and change. 🌱🤗
We love seeing our Preschoolers’ curiosity shine as they discover what makes each of us unique — because we are all growing, learning and becoming our own wonderful selves! 🌟💛
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