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Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Lightwater

Ofsted: Expected standard·
5.0(37 parent reviews) ·Park House, 127 Guildford Road, Lightwater, GU18 5RA · Surrey
Number of places
74 places
Age range
0–3 yrs
Last inspected
Nov 2025
Local authority
Surrey

About this day nursery

Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Lightwater provides childcare for children aged 0-3 years in a calm, welcoming, and nurturing environment in Surrey. Established in 2025, the nursery prides itself on fostering positive relationships with families and ensuring children feel safe and secure.

The dedicated staff, guided by experienced leaders, implement a rich Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum that supports children's development, particularly in communication, language, and physical skills. The nursery is committed to inclusivity, with robust systems in place to identify and support disadvantaged, vulnerable children, and those with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND).

Leaders effectively adapt teaching strategies and collaborate with parents and external agencies to ensure every child thrives. The nursery’s approach ensures children make significant progress, developing a love for learning and building essential skills for their future education.

What it's like

Children benefit from a calm, welcoming, and nurturing environment that promotes their well-being and welfare. Children are happy, confident, and curious in their learning environment. They are supported well by staff to feel safe and secure. Staff create warm, trusting bonds with children and their families. This helps to support children to have positive experiences and develop a love for learning.

Calm environmentNurturing staffStrong communication developmentGood behaviour

Key facts

Opening hours

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday : 07:30 - 18:30

Term time / All Year

All_year

Established

2025

Ofsted Inspection — new report card

Expected standard

Last inspected Nov 2025

Headline: Expected standard

Grade summary

Exceptional
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Strong standard
Expected standard
Needs attention
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Urgent improvement
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Each dot represents one of the six inspection categories. Headline is the average of the six grades, rounded up.

Category grades

AchievementExpected standard
Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routinesExpected standard
Children's welfare and wellbeingStrong standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionExpected standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
Age range
0 to 3
Registers
Early Years Register
Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Lightwater

Last inspected 20 November 2025

What it's like to attend

Children benefit from a calm, welcoming, and nurturing environment that promotes their well-being and welfare. Children are happy, confident, and curious in their learning environment. They are supported well by staff to feel safe and secure. Staff create warm, trusting bonds with children and their families. This helps to support children to have positive experiences and develop a love for learning.

Inspector highlights

  • Children benefit from a calm, welcoming, and nurturing environment that promotes their well-being and welfare.
  • Children are happy, confident, and curious, supported by staff who create warm, trusting bonds with children and their families.
  • Children arrive eager to start their day and settle quickly into their learning, demonstrating a secure sense of emotional well-being.
  • Children demonstrate significant progress in their communication and language development through a curriculum focused on books and rhymes, as well as visual aids, gestures, and signs.
  • Staff support children's physical development consistently well both indoors and outdoors, enabling them to become increasingly independent in their play and care routines.
  • Children behave very well, demonstrating an understanding of expectations, good manners, turn-taking, and sharing resources.

Areas to develop

  • 1Leaders should tailor professional development for staff to develop their practice further.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Leaders coach staff to adapt teaching strategies to help all children achieve well and to support children with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities effectively. They implement effective systems to identify disadvantaged and vulnerable children who may require help to access educational programmes and reduce barriers to, and close gaps in, their learning. They build on their relationships with parents and carers to coordinate referrals to partners such as the local authority early years support service or other agencies.

Parent Reviews of Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Lightwater

5.0
(37)
Siobhan Guerin
8 months ago

Having decided to move our son from another nursery setting for his final year, we had high hopes for Monkey Puzzle and it has exceeded all of them! The nursery itself is lovely and modern with great facilities, the staff have been amazing and my son has never not wanted to go. He formed bonds with the team really quickly which was lovely to see. Communication is great, lots of updates and the activities they do to keep the kids engaged are brilliant. Would recommend this nursery to everyone!

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C A
8 months ago

My son started at Monkey Puzzle Lightwater about a month ago and is absolutely loving it. There is a huge variety of activities everyday with a big focus on outdoor time which my son particularly enjoys, including the weekly forest school sessions. All the staff are welcoming, kind and friendly and have been very supportive during the initial settling in period. Being a new nursery, the facilities are also excellent, everything is in immaculate condition. They encourage independence too, which has improved my son’s confidence no end. Overall, we’ve been very impressed with our first few weeks.

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Karem Sekhon
7 months ago

We've had a wonderful experience with this nursery. The staff are absolutely lovely - so welcoming and supportive, making the transition into nursery life smooth for both our child and us as parents. Each day is filled with fun and engaging activities that our little one really enjoys, and it's been amazing to see their development and growing confidence. We also really appreciate the regular updates and communication from the team, which help us feel involved and reassured throughout the day. Highly recommend to any parents looking for a nurturing and well-organised environment for their child.

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Juilee Majgaonkar
7 months ago

We are very happy with the care our child receives at Monkey puzzle lightwater nursery. The staff are truly amazing - warm, friendly, and always welcoming. They provide a safe, nurturing environment where children are encouraged to grow and thrive. What stands out most is how understanding and attentive they are to each child's individual needs. We couldn't ask for better care, and we feel so lucky to have found such a wonderful place.

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Abi Leech
8 months ago

Could not be happier with Monkey Puzzle Lightwater! Despite delays in opening, the team worked tirelessly to get an amazing nursery in place. My two boys have been attending for about 3 months now and absolutely love it! They are so happy and settled there, all the staff give 110% and always ensure my boys are looked after so well. Lovely updates are always provided on the app too with great pictures so I can see all the fun they are getting up to. As well as the amazing activities they arrange in house, they often go out on field trips which they love. The forest school has recently started too which is a great concept! Couldn't be happier with this nursery, would thoroughly recommend!

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Inspection history

Most recent inspection

20 November 2025

Expected standard

Only one graded inspection on record — a trend chart will appear here once a second graded report is published.

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