Welcome to Monkey Puzzle Astwick
Our nursery provides a nurturing home from home environment, for children aged 3 months through to pre-school age. With an emphasis on learning through play, our carefully selected team of practitioners ensure your child is cared for in a safe, secure environment with planned activities to keep them engaged whilst having lots of fun.
We are located on a working farm, meaning our children have access to a whole farm and all the adventures that it is able to bring them. Additionally, we have a trained forest school leader in our preschool room to take children on daily forest school sessions and a lead staff member in 2-3’s that has trained in outdoor learning, meaning our older children get to spend lots of time outside learning in our beautiful environment that includes streams, fields, woodland and exploring nature’. We are extremely blessed that our older children at Astwick are not confined to being inside all day and can run, climb and explore our great outdoors each day. Our little ones go out too, but we don’t take them as far as their little legs get tired, so time outside learning on the farm, increases with their age and energy!
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. We have free-flow access all year round to our purpose built garden where children can continue their learning but more importantly have fun, jumping in the sandpit or making mud pie in our mud kitchen!
No hidden extras, everything is included in our fees, from freshly prepared breakfast, lunch, tea, snacks, and drinks, to premium branded nappies, wipes, and creams. Menus are carefully selected by our on-site chef to meet the energy and nutrition requirements of growing children, plus there are also extremely delicious!
We’re just around the corner, with lots for you to discover…
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Part of an award winning nursery group with over 30 years experience
- Fully renovated barn conversion set in an idyllic farm setting, less than 5 minutes’ drive from central Stotfol
- Amazing, purpose-built outside play area where children have free-flow access all year round
- Dedicated rooms for Babies, Toddlers and Pre-School
- Regular outings to aid the children’s learning and awareness of their surroundings
- Caring and experienced team of staff who are all highly qualified in Childcare and Education
- Delicious, healthy food prepared on site by our Nursery Chef
- Modern security systems, including CCTV cameras
- Open Monday to Friday, 51 weeks a year, 7.30am to 6.30pm
- Full day or half day sessions available
- Branded Nappies, wipes and creams all included in the price
- 15/30 hours government funding available (limited places)
Plus so much more. Get in touch today.
Open 7:30am to 6:30pm Monday to Friday for 51 weeks per year, (closed for the week between Christmas and New Year)
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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.
Our 2-3’s have been busy getting exploring a variety of messy tuff trays with different textures as well as making their own icecreams. Our preschoolers have been having fun in their Forest School Area doing lots of nature based activities and climbing trees! 🍦🌳 🍃
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Recently our little babies have had lots of fun getting messy and using all their senses to explore the different textures whilst our older babies have been busy exploring the outdoors, playing in the fields, catching bubbles and looking for bugs! 🐞🫧🌳
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National ice cream day! We brought all our hard working team ice creams this week to celebrate national ice cream day! #icecream #bestteam #staff #monkeypuzzledaynursery #monkeypuzzlestevenage ... See MoreSee Less
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National Ice Cream Day 🍦
This week we celebrated by teaming up with the local businesses on Church Farm to get an ice cream van for our staff - a well deserved treat after working hard in the heat over the last few weeks!
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Need to book in a visit on the next National ice cream day!!!
A huge well done to Holly who has now gained her level 3 qualification in Children’s Learning & Development! Very proud of all her hard work! 🙏🏼🥰 #monkeypuzzledaynurseries #stafftraining ... See MoreSee Less
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Well done Holly!!!!❤️
Well done Holly 😘xx
Well done Holly
Making our bug 🐛 🐜 🐞 house! Preschool were busy at forest school making the bugs a home! They thought about what they would like to use and what bugs would need in a house. Some great thinking from them and the eye were very proud of why they made. #bughotel #forestschool #outdooractivitiesforkids #monkeypuzzle #hitchinmums #biggleswademums #stotfoldmums ... See MoreSee Less
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Canada 🇨🇦 day! Our 2-3’s took part in some activities and discovered Canada 🍁 this week. They made their own flags, finding leaves out on the farm as well a themed play dough and art work! #canadaday #monkeypuzzle #hitchinmums #stotfoldmummies ... See MoreSee Less
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Come and join us for our next 3-week Baby Sign course, starting on Tuesday 9th July.
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Preschool were great helpers today, watering all our flowers this afternoon. They thought they were very thirsty in the hot weather! #gardeningwithkids #monkeypuzzle #hitchinmums #monkeypuzzlestevenage #stotfold ... See MoreSee Less
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