Childcare at Monkey Puzzle Feltham

A day with us, from first cuddle to school-ready.

Here’s how a day will work at our new Feltham nursery: the rooms, the people, what children learn, what they eat and how we help them settle.

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Environment Care Curriculum Extra-curricular Nutrition Settling in Meet the team

Brand-new, built for little ones

The room is the third teacher.

Every room is being designed and scaled for the children who’ll use it, and each age group will have its own garden.

Familiar, but child-sized

Photo: Garden

The outdoor classroom
Adventure mode

Photo: Baby room

Babies get more room

Photo: Local trip / nature walk

Learning on the doorstep

Photo: Kitchen / mealtime

Fresh food, cooked here

Photo: Children outdoors

Forest School days

Babies get more room

The most floor space per child in the nursery, with zones for sleep, meals and play, so the youngest can roll, sit, stand and take first steps.

Toddlers reach everything

Toys, books and activities at their height, potties and toilets inside the room, and a home corner full of small versions of the things they see you use.

Preschool gets ready

Construction, a home corner, books, music and art, plus quieter spaces for friendships and feelings. Small-group time builds the habits that make Reception feel familiar.

Care

Safe, secure and ready to explore.

When a child feels truly safe they have the confidence to try new things. So every child will have a whole room team plus one Key Person: someone who learns their routine and personality first, keeps their Learning Journey up to date, and is the person you talk to at pick-up.

Four promises

  • A positive, lasting memory of childhood
  • Care for every child as if they were our own
  • Know and understand your hopes for your child
  • Use all our training to develop the whole personality

The small things matter most: cuddles while they settle, praise when they try, a gentle voice for babies and a proper listen for the bigger ones. Our team will be trained to spot the quiet signs that a child is unsure, and achievements go up on the walls, on our achievement trees, and straight to you.

Curriculum

Starts with the EYFS. Goes way further.

The Early Years Foundation Stage is the framework every Reception class in England uses, so what children learn here carries straight into school. We teach it through play, indoors and out, and you’ll see it in photos and observations in the Famly app.

Learning through play

Babies

Communication, movement and feeling safe, through play, singing and chatting.

Tweenies and toddlers

The prime areas plus a first taste of books, numbers, art and the world outside, including trips out.

Preschool

Child-led play balanced with small-group activities across all seven areas, so Reception feels like the next step rather than a leap.

Extra-curricular

A week stitched through with specialists.

Enrichment will be built into the timetable and included in your fees, with every child getting a turn, pitched to their age.

Cooking club

Real ingredients, real mixing and measuring, from babies to preschool.

Yoga and mindfulness

Story-led stretches and breathing at a child’s own pace.

Music and movement

Songs, instruments and dance with a specialist.

Languages and cultures

A celebration of every language in our nursery family. Our team speaks French, Greek, Korean and Spanish.

Super Star Sport

Football, basketball, gymnastics, athletics, tennis and cricket in six-week blocks.

Forest School

Mud, weather and trees for toddlers and preschoolers, with risk managed by trained staff.

Nutrition

Three meals, two snacks, zero fuss.

Cooked fresh on site by our own nursery chef, to menus created with early years nutrition specialist Laura Matthews. They meet EYFS and DfE nutrition guidance, rotate over four weeks with a vegetarian option every day, and children serve themselves at breakfast and snack time.

Photo: Breakfast

Breakfast

Morning

Photo: Lunch

Lunch

Midday

Photo: Tea

Tea

Afternoon

Photo: Snacks

Snacks

In between

Allergies and preferences. Dietary needs are agreed at registration, every allergy gets a care plan, and plates follow a traffic-light system so the right meal reaches the right child. Food from home isn’t allowed, which is how we keep every allergy under control. Allergies Dietary preferences No restrictions

Getting started

From waiting list to first day.

Every child, parent and nursery relationship is different, so settling in is planned with you rather than to a fixed schedule. Your Key Person is there at every session, and keeps you posted every six weeks after that.

1

Join the waiting list

Three quick fields, no commitment. We’ll call you before we open.

2

Book a personal tour

See the rooms, meet the team and talk through start dates.

3

A pack in the post

About a week before your first session, so paperwork is done at home.

4

Meet your Key Person

A Famly login and a hello from the person who’ll know your child best.

5

Settle in at your pace

As many sessions as your child needs. You can stay at first, and we report after each.

Meet the founders

Warm, friendly, caring, professional.

Monkey Puzzle Feltham is owned and run by two local parents. They’re building a team around a Room Leader in every room, a dedicated SENDCO and a nursery chef, with paediatric first aid, food safety and safeguarding training for everyone.

Vishakha, Joint Owner and Director

Vishakha

Joint Owner & Director

A full-time working mum who knows that choosing a nursery and returning to work is an emotional journey.

Priyanka, Joint Owner and Director

Priyanka

Joint Owner & Director

Believes the early years are the most formative of all, with every milestone worth celebrating.

We’re recruiting

Join the team opening Monkey Puzzle Feltham.

We’re building our Early Years team ahead of opening in January 2027: Room Leaders, Nursery Practitioners and apprentices who want to be part of a brand-new nursery from day one. Every team member is paediatric first aid trained, every room has a Room Leader, and we have a dedicated SENDCO.

Paediatric first aid trained A Room Leader in every room A dedicated SENDCO Apprenticeships welcome

Parents ask

Good questions, quick answers.

January 2027, at 7 Ashfield Avenue, Feltham, TW13 5BB.

Join the waiting list. We’ll be in touch before we open to book your personal tour and talk through start dates.

From three months up to five years, cared for within their age group with their own Key Person.

Yes, and most families mix funded and paid hours. Funding is stretched across 51 weeks, so 30 hours over the year works out at about 22 hours a week.

A word at every pick-up, progress meetings about every three months, and photos and observations in the Famly app.

We follow each child’s sleep routine as closely as we can. Cots for under-ones, sleep mats for older children, and you can send your own bedding.

We’ll call you to collect promptly, and your child waits in a quiet, calm area with their Key Person.

No. The nursery is open 51 weeks a year, closing only on bank holidays and for one week at Christmas.

Opening January 2027

Be one of our first families.

Leave your name, email and phone and we’ll call you to book a personal tour before we open.

7 Ashfield Avenue, Feltham, TW13 5BB
Call 0800 411 8500
Email manager@monkeypuzzlefeltham.co.uk

Join the waiting list

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