with Monkey Puzzle
Welcome to Monkey Puzzle
Hello. I’m Arlind and I am the owner of Monkey Puzzle Orpington. My team and I are dedicated to creating an outstanding environment that gives every child the best start in life, caring for and supporting them to play, learn and grow in a space where they can thrive.
I would love to welcome and show you around our beautiful nursery setting so please get in touch.
Arlind
Nursery Owner
What Makes Us Special
Strong Community Connections
We believe that the best outcomes for children happen when nursery and home work hand in hand. Our secure partnerships with parents are built on open communication, trust, and shared goals. Through regular family events, workshops, and information sessions, we invite parents to be an active part of their child’s early learning journey. It’s a true community feel, where families are supported and celebrated every step of the way.
Enriching Environment
Monkey Puzzle Orpington offers a space to thrive for your children where they can play, learn and grow. Our nursery is carefully designed creating a home from home feel with well resourced, enriching learning and play spaces. We have a dedicated outdoor space used for a wide variety of activities from discovering nature to sports. Our wider local community plays an important role in the nursery experience as an extended learning environment to create well rounded socially aware young children.
Outdoor Adventures
We’re incredibly lucky to have a generous outdoor space where children can play, explore, and learn in the fresh air. Our large garden offers plenty of room for physical activity, sensory exploration, nature-based learning, and of course, lots of fun! Whether it's planting flowers, building obstacle courses, or searching for bugs, our outdoor area supports creativity, confidence, and wellbeing.
Experienced Management Team
At Monkey Puzzle Orpington, our management team brings a wealth of Early Years expertise, compassion, and dedication. They lead with heart, guiding the entire nursery with a hands-on, supportive approach. Their deep understanding of child development ensures your little ones receive nurturing care, thoughtful planning, and a truly enriching experience every day. We value our staffs diversity and the unique qualities and skills that they can bring to our family and want them to have careers and jobs that they are proud of.
Strong Community Connections
We believe that the best outcomes for children happen when nursery and home work hand in hand. Our secure partnerships with parents are built on open communication, trust, and shared goals. Through regular family events, workshops, and information sessions, we invite parents to be an active part of their child’s early learning journey. It’s a true community feel, where families are supported and celebrated every step of the way.
Enriching Environment
Monkey Puzzle Orpington offers a space to thrive for your children where they can play, learn and grow. Our nursery is carefully designed creating a home from home feel with well resourced, enriching learning and play spaces. We have a dedicated outdoor space used for a wide variety of activities from discovering nature to sports. Our wider local community plays an important role in the nursery experience as an extended learning environment to create well rounded socially aware young children.
Outdoor Adventures
We’re incredibly lucky to have a generous outdoor space where children can play, explore, and learn in the fresh air. Our large garden offers plenty of room for physical activity, sensory exploration, nature-based learning, and of course, lots of fun! Whether it's planting flowers, building obstacle courses, or searching for bugs, our outdoor area supports creativity, confidence, and wellbeing.
Experienced Management Team
At Monkey Puzzle Orpington, our management team brings a wealth of Early Years expertise, compassion, and dedication. They lead with heart, guiding the entire nursery with a hands-on, supportive approach. Their deep understanding of child development ensures your little ones receive nurturing care, thoughtful planning, and a truly enriching experience every day. We value our staffs diversity and the unique qualities and skills that they can bring to our family and want them to have careers and jobs that they are proud of.
Parent and Carer Reviews
Hear what our parents and carers have to say about our Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery and Preschool in Orpington with a selection of reviews from Daynurseries.co.uk.
E T (Mother of Child)
The nursery always go above and beyond for my daughters who attend. The care the staff provide to my children is exceptional, this is consistent throughout all rooms and staff, from key persons, room leaders, kitchen team to the management team, they always do this with a smile.
Sarah H (Mother of Child)
Our son has been at Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Orpington since he was one and he is about to leave for primary school with so many skills, talents, ideas and happy memories. The staff are incredibly professional, compassionate and knowledgable
L R (Mother of Child)
My son has absolutely loved his time at Monkey Puzzle Day Nursing so far! From the settling in sessions to the daily activities, meals, Parents' Evenings and special events, so much care and thought is put into what they provide.
J C (Mother of Child)
have two children at the nursery and they love it there! The staff are amazing and passionate about what they are doing with a great management team who inspire them.
Viki W (Mother of Child)
This is an excellent nursery. Wonderful and friendly staff, very professional, clean and modern and always striving to improve for the children they care for. As a mum I feel well informed on my sons days and development and I can really see how much he gets from being there.
Martha C (Mother of Child)
My daughter started at Monkey Puzzle around 6 months ago, and she absolutely loves it, she settled in amazingly and feels completely at home with all the staff.I have been so impressed with how the nursery is run all the staff are so friendly.
A Day In Our Nursery
Healthy Eating
As children grow, a healthy and balanced diet is key, and we inspire with a variety of colour, texture, and taste to expand their food experiences.
Seasonal and local produce are also important in helping children understand more about where food comes from and nutrition.
All The Essentials
Monkey Puzzle Orpington’s key information at a glance.
- Learning guided by the national Early Years Foundation Stage
- An amazing home-from-home environment
Daily extracurricular activities, all included in our fees
- Branded nappies and creams included
- Fantastic all-seasons outdoor play area
- Inspiring, caring and highly qualified team
- Open 51 weeks of the year
Exciting Days
It’s smiles all round with fun and inspiring days with child centred activities supported, guided, and encouraged by our passionate team.
Follow your child’s progress as they learn and develop through their learning journal with regular updates from our nursery team throughout their day with us.
How To Find Monkey Puzzle Orpington
Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Orpington is proudly located in the heart of Orpington in the BR6 postal sector. The nursery is situated on Sevenoaks Road, close to Orpington High Street and just a short distance from Orpington Station. This central location makes us perfectly placed to serve families in the London Borough of Bromley and the surrounding areas.
Get In Touch
Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Orpington
Rowan House, 64 Sevenoaks Road, Orpington, Kent BR6 9JL
Tel: 01689 838 201
Email: manager@monkeypuzzleorpington.co.uk
Opening times: 7:30am to 6:30pm
Monday to Friday for 51 weeks per year, (closed for the week between Christmas and New Year)
Celebrating success and years service with some of our fantastic team 🎉
First up celebrating 3 years service here at Monkey Puzzle we have…
Arizona our deputy room leader in the cabin. She started in our big baby room, and when we told her about the cabin, she said yes to a new challenge and has been there ever since. She comes up with some brilliant activities for the children such as, the children showed an interest in dinosaurs, next thing the children were making commits and planets and were learning what prehistoric meant. She’s doing a great job, and we’re very grateful for everything she does 🎉
Next up is Paige our nursery SENDCo in the preschool room. She started off as one of our bank staff and like it so much she wanted to be a permanent member of staff. She then took on the role of SENDCo at the same time as starting her level 3 qualification in childcare. Paige loves to sing and dance with the children, even today she was playing all the Disney songs and joining in with the children. She’s doing a great job, and we’re very grateful for everything she does 🎉
Then we have Adele our lunch cover in the toddler room. Adele has been a constant in the toddler room, she comes up with some amazing activities to do with the children, one of her most recent ones that was linked to the children’s farm interest was how to milk a cow! She made a cow out of old boxes and got the children to paint it, she then filled gloves with water mixed with white paint and showed the children how to milk the cow. This had the children engaged for ages. She’s doing a great job, and we’re very grateful for everything she does 🎉
Next up celebrating 2 years service is Dawn our lunch cover in preschool. Dawn was originally lunch cover in the toddler room and when an opening came up in the preschool room we asked Dawn if she would like to try something new…and she’s been there ever since! Dawn is very hands on with the children. She’s doing a great job, and we’re very grateful for everything she does 🎉
And celebrating 1 year of service we have Emily our apprentice in the big baby room. Originally Emily started in our cabin with the older children, then one day she was asked to support in the baby room, and she liked it so much that she never left. Emily is always down at the children’s level, and she is currently doing her level 3 qualification. She’s doing a great job, and we’re very grateful for everything she does 🎉
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Star of the week ⭐️
Our star this week is our awesome Molly from Toddler Room!
We needed help in the kitchen this week and she offered her skills and helped our lovely April with the washing up, reading out the allergies to April and helping to carry the food trays down the stairs and into the rooms.
Thank you Molly, you’re an absolute star ⭐
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A very big CONGRATULATIONS to our amazing Deputy Room Leader in Toddler room, Steph & her lovely new wife Jess.
I’m sure you’ll join us in wishing them a wonderful life together and making memories together, and of course how beautiful they both look 💍🍾🥂❤️
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Last, but not least is The Little Baby Room, they went on a teddy bears picnic 🐻
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Next up is The Big Baby Room, they went to Jurassic Park to discover the dinosaurs 🦖
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Here we have The Toddler Room with their feelings and emotions 😃 😢
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Next up we have The Preschool Room…they have gone camping ⛺️
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We wanted to share what we get up to in our monthly staff meetings.
The team were set a challenge to set up an exciting, fun and engaging activity in the garden that all children could join in with…here’s what they came up with!
(I can only share one video at a time on our FB page)
First up we have The Cabin and their pirate ship 🏴☠️
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Star of the week ⭐️
This weeks star is the amazing Natalie who has been supporting us from our sister nursery in Bromley.
She has been getting stuck in with the staff and the children and she feels like part of the team. She has been doing some amazing activities with the children, and she even completed her level 3 childcare qualification as well!
Congratulations and a very big THANK YOU for all of your help ⭐️
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