Saturday night was our annual Cinema Night! 🎥 🍿 What an incredible evening with so many of our lovely families joining us 🤩🤩 What a perfect way to enjoy a stormy Saturday afternoon! The children love reading Julia Donaldson books in the nursery so we decided to play 2 short films from her books. First up was Superworm 🪱 and then Stickman 🪵 it was great to hear the children reciting parts of the film after reading them so often in the nursery! 📖 We hope you enjoyed the yummy treats throughout the films and of course remembered to brush your teeth after! ...

Last week we had our staff inset day which was filled with training, team building, staff meetings, garden projects and of course some delicious food for the team! 🤩 We started the morning off with some team building games to get the team working together and most importantly, have a laugh! We then went on to training on Behaviour Management. The training helped support the team’s understanding of strategies to use to help behaviour and deepened their understanding of why behaviours might arise. We then went on to some training around Curriculum and Teaching which gave the team lots of support around why we deliver the curriculum we have to our children and how to further implement this. After a busy morning of training, the team enjoyed a lovely lunch from one of our local take aways in the community. The afternoon was filled with staff meetings and individual room and garden projects. A very successful inset day! 🥳 ...

Here at Monkey Puzzle, we love embracing family time and have recently hosted Grandparents morning, encouraging families to come along and enjoy breakfast as well as activities with their grandchild. It was a wonderful morning, with so many families attending, thank you for coming along!
Keep your eyes peeled for future events, it`ll be great to see you there 🙂 ...

Hola from Monkey Puzzle! 👋 🇪🇸

Earlier this week, the Toddlers have explored the country Spain!
We celebrated La Tomatina🍅 , a festival which includes throwing tomatoes at one another!

During our cookery class, involving stuffed peppers, our toddlers were able to enhance on their fine motor movements by chopping, stirring and adding their cooked portion to their plate - a fantastic meal to extend on their Spanish understanding

In the afternoon, 💃 Toddlers put on their dancing shoes and demonstrated their own Flamenco, whilst listening to traditional Spanish music

The teachers supported the children with their attention to detail, by using playdoh tools to manipulate and create churros - WOW

Finally, the team offered a range of mark making tools to create their own Spanish flags - fantastic work Toddlers! ...