Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Maidenhead
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.3 on GoogleBirth to 5Long established
A day nursery in Maidenhead for babies from 3 months up to 5 year olds, 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 They do not publish prices, so ask.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 September 2022. Open since 2018, with 74 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Eligible families can access 15 or 30 hours funded childcare and may also use Tax-Free Childcare.
Worth knowing. Additional charges apply for meals, consumables (such as nappies, wipes, and sunscreen), trips, and any extra hours beyond the funded entitlement.
What childcare usually costs in Windsor and Maidenhead
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Windsor and Maidenhead 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
SL6 1ESWhat 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.
Ofsted inspector, 27 September 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are happy in the nursery. They are warmly greeted by staff and enter the playrooms with confidence, demonstrating that they feel safe. Children settle well to choose activities which support their learning. For example, children enjoy exploring sand, and snuggling up with staff to enjoy familiar stories. Staff incorporate children's interests well into activities. For instance, during an activity with dough, staff added home-grown tomatoes from the allotment for the toddlers to use as a pizza topping.
All children are well behaved. The environment ignites their curiosity and eagerness to learn. For instance, babies explore the indoor and outdoor areas confidently, making choices about their play. They experience the feel of the jelly in their hands, and staff use language to describe it, such as 'wobbly' and 'squelchy'. This promotes babies' developing language skills. Older children enjoy making marks in paint with vegetables, pine cones and leaves. They are confident to explore their ideas and recall prior learning. For example, they work out that if they make a handprint, they can adapt it to look like the autumn leaves falling from the trees.
Children demonstrate a broad vocabulary and good thinking skills.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: - reflect on how children and key persons can spend more time together to build further on children's attachments and feelings of belonging and security n enhance the professional development programme for staff to improve the quality of teaching to the highest level.
- 27 September 2022Good
- 25 October 2021Needs improvement
Rated Good or Outstanding at 1 of the last 2 graded inspections.
Still missing for Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Maidenhead
- What it costs
- Meals
- 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.
- Do you have a place for a child of my age now? 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.
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