Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Aylesbury

We are looking for qualified and experienced level 3 (or above) practitioners to join our rapidly developing nursery. We offer a competitive salary in line with your experience and staff discount for your own children and we offer in house training to meet your individual needs! We have strict covid 19 measures in place to protect the children and staff members. We are a private day nursery and we accommodate children from 3 months to 5 years old, each age group has their own designated room with stimulating activities to meet each individual child's needs. We are open for 51 weeks of the year and offer a great annual leave package.

JOB SPECIFICATION
Nursery Practitioner

Job Overview
To provide the highest levels of care and education for all children attending the setting.

Aims
• Provide high standards of care and education to meet the individual needs of all children
• Adhere to all company policies and procedures at all times
• Acquire and maintain positive working partnerships with staff, parents and carers

Key Responsibilities
• Adhere to all company policies and procedures
• Contribute to a high standard of quality within the nursery, including practice, environment and resources to meet the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage
• Ensure appropriate planning and assessment is accurately maintained for key children
• Undertake the role of key person as described in the policy
• Prepare and supervise activities
• Supervise and support children at all times
• Ensure that equality of access and opportunity is provided to all children, parents, staff and visitors
• Ensure that all children are kept safe
• Notify Designated Officer of any safeguarding concerns
• Maintain a positive attitude at all times with children, parents, colleagues and visitors
• Develop and maintain professional working relationships with colleagues, parents and carers
• Ensure confidentiality, where appropriate, is maintained
• Adhere to all health and safety policies and procedures and undertake a shared responsibility for cleanliness and health and safety throughout the nursery
• Work as part of a team to ensure the company’s values are maintained
• Attend monthly staff meetings, planning meetings and undertake training as required
• Undertake any other duties as reasonably requested by line manager

The duties and responsibilities included in this job specification are not exhaustive or restrictive and can be reviewed at any time in the future, changes and other duties deemed relevant to this post may be added.

Please contact Stacey, nursery manager, on [email protected] or 01296 435435

Monkey Puzzle Nursery Aylesbury Defibrillator Campaign - AEDdonate

Following on from my earlier post regarding the defibrillator, the fundraising page has now been set up. Please follow the link below to make a donation, anything you can spare will be hugely appreciated ♥
https://www.aeddonate.org.uk/projects/22-871/

Monkey Puzzle Nursery Aylesbury Defibrillator Campaign - AEDdonate Add 25% more to your donation at no cost to you. A Gift Aid declaration allows AEDdonate to claim tax back on eligible donations. It means that for every £1 you donate to AEDdonate we can claim back 25p, at no extra cost to you. Gift Aid is claimed by AEDdonate goes towards the running costs of our...

In the UK there are over 30,000 Cardiac Arrests a year outside of hospital. However, the survival rate is less than one in ten victims survive to be discharged from hospital, and this rate lags behind those of other developed nations. In the UK, the average time for emergency services to arrive following a 999 call is 8-12 minutes. With Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA), every minute counts as survival rate drops by 7-10% for every minute defibrillation (and CPR) is delayed. Defibrillation within 3-5 minutes of collapse can produce survival rates as high as 50-70%. This means with more public access defibs, we can significantly improve survival rates.

Defibrillators have the potential to save lives, but we understand might not be easily afforded. A charity called AED Donate will be supporting us and we will receive:

Our own dedicated online fundraising page whereby 100% of proceeds go to our campaign unlike other fundraising portals
our own specific fundraising pack with resources to help you start our campaign
social media and press coverage throughout our campaign plus our own Community Liaison Officer to help us during our campaign.
The cabinet comes with a 10 year warranty, it has a touch safe heater and a hydrostat fitted to control any moisture within the cabinet. The cabinet also comes with an IK10 strength rating. AED Donate have installed around 1,600 of these nationally and have never had one broken into. Also, they only supply FDA approved defibrillators. The machines also come with an 8 year warranty. The backing boards serve as a great way of thanking sponsors and provide great PR for anyone who has supported the site.

By working alongside AED donate, they will be able to install the External Defibrillator Package for £1,999 , which includes:

A Defibrillator with 8 Year Warranty
Carry Case
Defibrillator Cabinet with 10 Year Structural Warranty
A Rescue Kit
Full Electrical Installation (on a hard wall surface and within 5 metres of mains electrical supply)
Backing board thanking donors
FREE Access to our Education Hub and ongoing online training sessions
Registration with your local Ambulance Trust
Press Release to inform your local community
24/7 Help Desk Support
PAD and Battery Reminder Service
After Installation Care Pack
But the good news! AED donate can contribute £400 to the above meaning that the total cost for all of the above comes down to £1,599.00 including VAT. (£1,332.50+VAT)

External defibrillator package includes electrical installation for the defibrillator cabinet unless otherwise specified. Only a standard electrical install is included. Standard electrical installation includes attaching the defibrillator cabinet to a solid structure and connecting the power supply within five meters of the defibrillator.

In order to raise some of the funds, we will be holding an Autumn fete at the nursery on Saturday 22nd October 11am to 3pm, we will have a variety of stalls and games such as hoop-la, raffle, cake sale, sweet stand and (you'll love this one) splat the teacher!! All monies raised will go toward the defibrillator to support the community as a whole :-)

R. I. P Queen Elizabeth ♥ God rest her soul! Condolences to her family at such a difficult time

Another beautiful and heart warming gift!! Thank you, we will miss you! ♥

Such a heart warming gift for one of our children who have spread their wings on to bigger adventures ♥

Marvin had a great day out today at Cadbury World (I can't promise there was a lot of healthy eating going on 🍫🤭) He thoroughly enjoyed the 4D cinema experience especially the roller-coaster 🎢 Marvin finished the day with an ice cold frozen Fanta 🥤 Monkey Puzzle Day Nurseries

Dear Parents,

I am proud to show that we have received our new updated certificate from the Day nurseries website.
I would like to say a huge thankyou to all parents who have helped us achieve this score by your reviews!

World book day 2022 ♥
We had so much fun dressing up as some of our favourite characters, acting iut some of the stories and also engaging in messy activities that relate to the stories! We also thoroughly enjoyed story time across the whole week, the importance of reading with young children and the enjoyment is priceless 🙃

Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Aylesbury's Red Nose Day 2022

Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Aylesbury's Red Nose Day 2022 Help Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Aylesbury - raise money to support Comic Relief

Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Aylesbury's Red Nose Day 2022

As you may already be aware next Friday (18th) is Red Nose day. We are going to be doing all things bright and colourful, bright clothes, bright hair, bright nails. Could we please ask that you all donate to the page and do not bring in cash. Any children who are not in on Friday can join in throughout the week.
We look forward to seeing all the bright colours

Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Aylesbury's Red Nose Day 2022 Help Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Aylesbury - raise money to support Comic Relief

Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Aylesbury updated their business hours.

Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Aylesbury updated their business hours.

Getting in the festive spirit with our Christmas jumper day 🎄

Christmas jumper day 2021!!

Happy diwali to all of our wonderful friends and families who will be celebrating today 🎉 🎇

Throughout October, we were collecting donations for families in need. A huge thank you to everyone who donated towards the food bank! What a collection we had!! 😲 The Aylesbury food bank were very grateful for all the amazing donations so thank you everyone Aylesbury Foodbank

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Today we have been wearing purple to support our family and friends at a very difficult time. All money raised will go toward cancer research and the families who received the devastating news!! Thank you all for your support ♥

It was amazing that we were able to invite the parents of our Tiny Turtles to the nursery for our Family Fun Event!

Lots of fun and lots of smiles ☺️

Wow, what another wonderful day at preschool sports day! The children (and adults) enjoyed some beanbag races, sack races, practising their balancing skills with an egg and spoon race and also a 3 legged race! The weather was beautiful and we also had a play in the park too 😀

Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Aylesbury updated their info in the about section.

Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Aylesbury updated their info in the about section.

Pre-school enjoyed their sports day in the local park today, what great fun it was and the parents and carers also had a great time joining in too!! We will be holding another sports day tomorrow at the local park for the rest of our pre-school children!!

Today our Pre-Schoolers were getting their sack race practice in for Sports day, which is next week! We’ve learnt that we have some very competitive children, which is great to see!! 🥇🏆

Here are some of the photos that we managed to capture on this amazing day! We hope you all had a lovely time celebrating together and enjoyed the food that our chef had made for the day! 🏫

On Thursday 22nd July we had our very own superhero day! 🦸‍♀️ With the participation from all of the children and some amazing donations, we managed to raise £185.80 for Sunny Days Children Fund ☀️

On Thursday 22nd July we had our very own superhero day! 🦸‍♀️ With the participation from all of the children and some amazing donations, we managed to raise £185.80 for Sunny Days Children Fund ☀️

Happy Hippos enjoyed sharing some garden time with their mummies and daddies last week! We got to share some of our exciting and stimulating activities with our parents in the garden and also enjoyed a yummy picnic too! Their topic was summer therefore we built sandcastles, made 'ice creams' with shaving foam and enjoyed exploring some frozen flowers too

Cheeky Chimps thoroughly enjoyed their party with their families in the garden, it was so lovely to share some of our fun-filled activities with our friends and families - the weather was also very pleasant! The children have been learning all about the hungry caterpillar, the food that it eats and it's life cycle, they also enjoyed some music and movement with their parents ☺

A lovely little keep sake gift from one of our families who are relocating, we wish them the very best of luck and it has been an absolute pleasure supporting your little one, watching her grow and develop over the years! We will miss you all 😁

A very beautiful "thank you" card arrived this morning from Her Majesty The Queen following on from the condolences card we sent after hearing the sad news about Prince Philip ♥ ♥

This week our Pre-School are having a Mini-beast week... learning about all sorts of creepy crawlys... learning about where they live and what they like to eat! Yesterday we had a little hunt in our garden, to see what we could find!

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I think we have a few future Olympic jumping champions in our Pre-School! All the staff were very impressed 🏆🎖

On Monday our Cheeky Chimps were learning about the hungry caterpillar 🐛

They focused on colours, sizes, marks and what happens to a caterpillar when it’s ready to turn in to a butterfly 🦋

Swipe to see all the fun that was had 🐵

Happy Friday from all of us at Monkey Puzzle Aylesbury 🐵

Carrying on with number week... Our Pre-School colouring by numbers 🎲

On Wednesday our Bouncing Bears had a number based PE session taken by Jodie, their room leader.

They went around the circle, taking it in turns to roll the dice. If the dice was to land on a 4, the children would choose an exercise to do 4 times, or an exercise to do 5,6 times etc... They covered sit ups, burpees, press ups and donkey kicks!

Good effort by all 💪🏼

This morning the children have been planting sunflower seeds and learning about what they need in order to grow big and tall 🌻

Our Tiny Turtles have been having lots of fun body painting for Pride month 🤗 🏳️‍🌈
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On Wednesday we had lots of fun at the nursery on Wear Pink and Purple for the Pepper Foundation Day, which is a local children charity. Cheeky Chimps made a great poster, and all the staff also joined in. The children love fun days helping other children in need.