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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Free courses for parents and carers of 2-5 year-olds
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Children are rewarding, stimulating and fun, but looking after them can be stressful and challenging. We are running a programme which will help deal with those challenges so that you can have a calme...0 CommentsComment on Facebook
When elf on the shelf came to visit…. The children had a lovely visit with Elf Jingles today. He dropped off letters from Santa, and a reindeer snack for Xmas eve. Christmas is underway…. 🤶🎄🎅 ... See MoreSee Less
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Mr Jingles and Elsie Elf had such a lovely time meeting you all today. Thank you so much for inviting us to be part of your magical Christmas celebrations. All the children have definitely made Santas nice list this year
Diwali - we explored creating our own rangoli patterns and exploring it this one is made from colourful rice in tuff trays. #Diwali #monkeypuzzledaynurseries ... See MoreSee Less
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Kindness day… our 2-3’s this week made a kindness poster for us to add too. Just a little reminder that being kind can make us feel so much better, as well as the person we are giving that kindness too. #kindnessday ... See MoreSee Less
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Children in need 2023! Our children and staff wore their PJ’s today to raise money so a huge thank you to all our parents and team that donated. The children have had a great day in all kinds of puddly themed activities! #childreninneed2023 #monkeypuzzledaynurseries #stotfoldmummies #hitchinmums ... See MoreSee Less
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Nursery rhyme week- the children have loved exploring some of their favourite rhymes within different activities this week! #NurseryRhymeWeek #monkeypuzzledaynurseries #hitchinmums #stotfoldmummies #monkeypuzzledaynurseries ... See MoreSee Less
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Preschool’s kindness day activities ❤️ #kindnessday #monkeypuzzledaynurseries #hitchin #stotfold ... See MoreSee Less
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Our beautiful babies enjoying painting Diwali pictures and celebrating nursery rhyme week with tiff tray and singing, props and actions which they love and helps them learn new words and communication skills. #NurseryRhymeWeek #Diwali #monkeypuzzledaynurseries ... See MoreSee Less
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Kindness day! Our 2-3’s today went out on the farm to spread the ‘be kind’ word, give out High fives and cheer up everyone with their kindness (and cuteness!) We discussed how we could be kind, how it made us feel, feelings, and they made us proud with their words. They also demonstrated how to be kind to each other with smiles and looking out for one another. Thank you to our neighbours on the farm too for welcoming them as they visited with their notes of kindness! #kindnessday #professionalfundraiser #hitchin #stotfold #monkeypuzzledaynurseries ... See MoreSee Less
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Oh this is lovely 🥰
This is too cute ❤️
What a fabulous idea and so cute bless them all