Monkey Puzzle Day Nurseries - High Wycombe
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.4 on GoogleBirth to 8+Long established
A day nursery in High Wycombe for children from birth to 8+, open 07:30 to 18:30, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in March 2023. Open since 2013, with 60 places.
What you might pay
This setting does not publish its fees, and no national dataset holds them. This is what childcare costs across the council, as a starting point for the call.
What childcare usually costs in Buckinghamshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Buckinghamshire from the Department for Education's 2025 provider survey. No national data holds what an individual nursery charges, so ring and ask.
Places, hours and the day
Who they take, when they are open, and what a day there includes.
Where it is
HP11 1NTWhat the inspector found
One grade is one visit. A run of them tells you whether it has been good for years or has only just got there.
- 7 June 2024 — Concern: actions taken what Ofsted published
Ofsted inspector, 16 March 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are confident to explore their play environment. They have close bonds with the staff working in their rooms and with other staff in the nursery. Children seek reassurance from them when it is needed. Babies explore different areas to extend their experiences, adapting their use to enhance their interest and curiosities. For example, they roll a ball down the slide to see where it goes, using new skills to manoeuvre the ball from one place to another on their bellies.
Children are excited to discover new skills and experiences. Staff encourage them to experiment further and extend their thinking. They use open-ended questions to help children to think for themselves. Children question how things work and why.
For example, in the pre-school room, children discuss vegetables, how to cut them and what they like and dislike. They openly share their experiences from home, talking about foods they like to eat. This continues at lunchtime, when children ask for certain foods to be served separately as this is how they prefer them.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- develop staff's confidence to continually evaluate the effectiveness of their own practice and recognise the impact this has on children's learning and how this can be improved.
- 16 March 2023Good
- 14 August 2017Good
- 10 October 2016Needs improvement
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Monkey Puzzle Day Nurseries - High Wycombe
- What it costs
- Youngest age taken
- Meals
- Nappies
- Waiting list
No dataset holds any of this. Two parents telling us the same thing puts it on the page for whoever looks next.
What to ask them
Some of this is above, from the setting or from parents, and it can go out of date. The rest is in no dataset anywhere. Either way it is worth ten minutes on the phone.
- What does it cost, all in? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- How do you apply my funded hours? Whether they stretch them over the year, and the minimum days you have to book.
- Is there a place for my child's age? Baby rooms fill first and waiting lists are common.
- Who would my child's key person be? And how long have the staff been there. No dataset holds this and it matters more than anything above.
- Can I visit at a busy time? Mid-morning on a weekday tells you far more than an empty room after hours.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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