Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery Twickenham

My name is Isabella Zhang and I am one of the owners of Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery in Twickenham. I’m friendly, approachable and I highly value working in partnership with parents/families. I endeavour to build good working relationships at every level. I believe that all children warrant a safe educational environment that will enable their learning and growth. Every day, we strive to provide a long-lasting educational experience to every child that joins the Monkey Puzzle family.

Qualifications:

ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants),
Advanced Safeguarding and Safer recruitment

My name is Rose. I am one of the owners of Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery in Twickenham. Working with children gives me so much joy and happiness.
I have undertaken several courses towards my professional development, including Safeguarding and Safer food handling.

Qualifications:

Bachelor of Arts (with Honours)

My name is Diluni. I am the Deputy Manager and Leader in our Tweenies room. And have 15 years’ experience working in childcare. I am a level 5 qualified practitioner and Paediatric First Aid trained. I have a great passion for working in childcare. I am creative and ambitious and love learning new ideas daily. I am very confident overall with EYFS development and I have great depth SENCO experience. I would love to take new challenges and look forward to progressing and working my way up the ladder. I am currently doing my Leadership and Management Level 5 course. I support and help my colleagues to achieve more.

Qualifications and training:

CACHE NVQ level 5 Early years care and education,
Paediatric First Aid,
Prevent Duty,
FGM,
SENCO,
Quality Teaching, Learning and Interactions,
Promoting Positive Behaviour,
Completing Standard in Operations Management Level 5,
Safeguarding – the child protection process level 3

Hello, I am Anna, the nursery manager. I have a Bachelor and Master degree in Pedagogy and 8 years of experience in early years (3 years in Italy and 5 years in England nursery and primary school).

I worked with special needs children for some years and I completed SENCO course. I also achieved my level 3 safeguarding. I am energetic, creative and passionate person. I love my job because it gives me the chance to learn new things every day from “my children”.

Master degree in Pedagogy,
Paediatric First Aid,
Food and Hygiene Level 2,
SENCO,
Safeguarding Level 3,
Prevent Duty,
FGM

My name is Lillian I started my employment with Monkey Puzzle Twickenham in April 2018. I work in the Tweenies room as an early years assistant. I feel extremely privileged working at Monkey Puzzle Twickenham as they are a wonderful team who work towards setting a good learning environment for children to grow.

There is also room for progression as a staff member and I am currently having the training for my level 3 and look forward to completing it in 2019.

Qualifications and training:

Bachelor in Criminology,
Completing Early Years Educator Level 3,
Food and Hygiene level 2,
Safeguarding,
Prevent Duty,
FGM,
Quality Teaching, Learning and Interactions,
Promoting Positive Behaviour,
Prepare for Inspection

My name is Jacqueline and I have been working in the baby room for the past 8 years. It is so satisfying nurturing babies, literally watching them grow continuously, progress and ‘blossom’ throughout the years. There is an exquisite homely family vibe in here.

Qualifications and training:

NVQ level 3 in Childcare and Education,
First aider,
Supporting babies’ development,
Safeguarding level 1

My name is Rocío, a Spanish teacher. I have two degrees in Early Years and Elementary Years. At the moment I’m finishing my Master’s degree in SFL. I have 5 years of experience working with children. I am positive and cheerful, and I love working in a team and learning new ideas from them.

I believe working as a teacher is very rewarding so I’m lucky to consider what I like doing the most as my job.

I believe being a teacher is not just about “teaching” but helping and inspiring each child to develop their own skills to the maximum so they can achieve everything that they want. I am the teacher, but I learn every day from them.

Qualifications and training:

Early Years QTS,
Safeguarding,
FGM,
Prevent duty

My name is Joy. I started to enjoy teaching the children back in 5 years ago in Spain. I love spending time with the children. I have joined Monkey Puzzle Twickenham as a preschool teacher. It is so grateful to work with the children, and it is a privilege to support and see how they develop and grow on a daily basis, which is a priceless achievement for us. Working in Monkey Puzzle Twickenham with a group of wonderful, extremely professional and supportive staff, I feel I am a part of the family indeed.

The management also provides training courses to support the staff’s career development.

Qualifications and training:

Safeguarding,
Prevent Duty,
FGM,
Quality Teaching, Learning and Interactions,
Promoting Positive Behaviour

My name is Rosella. In 2005 I completed a master’s degree in Pedagogy in Italy. I worked with different age groups of in Italy before I came to the UK. I have had over 20 years’ experience in Early Years education and been working as a professional educator.

I love and enjoy working with children. I feel that I learn a lot as children are the best life teachers. Children are great at expressing themselves with such purity, curiosity and the unconditional love for others. I feel greatly satisfied to see children’s achievement under our teaching and support.

Qualifications and training:

Master’s degree in Pedagogy,
Safeguarding,
Prevent Duty,
FGM,
Quality Teaching, Learning and Interactions,
Promoting Positive Behaviour,
Paediatric First Aid

Hello, my name is Mihaela. My passion is working with kids. I love spending quality time doing creative activities with all early year’s age groups. I am highly responsible, self-motivated, hardworking individual with good transferable skill. Being aware of my contribution to our children’s development gives me a real sense of achievement.

Qualifications and training:

Safeguarding,
Prevent Duty,
FGM

My name is Aisha. I have more than 10 years’ experience of working with children in both primary and early years settings. It gives me great pleasure working with children, seeing their development and learning first-hand as they grow and flourish under our care.

Qualifications and training:

Diploma in Children’s Learning and Development,
Cache Early Years Education and care,
BTEC Employment Responsibilities & Rights in Health, Social Care and Children and young people’s settings,
NVQ for Teaching Assistants,
Whole School Safeguarding and Child protection,
Paediatric First Aid

My name is Cheniel and I have been working in Childcare for almost a year. I currently hold a bachelor’s degree in the field of Psychology and Counselling. I feel it is a privilege and delight to work with children.

Working with the children has provided me with an opportunity to understand their little perception as a whole, which has enabled me to help improve and develop their learning by using the EYFS framework.

As a part of this job role, I enjoy interacting with the children at all levels. I also enjoy planning and attaining fun and vibrant activities that the children enjoy and activities that are essential for their development.

Qualifications and training:

BA in Psychology,
Safeguarding,
Prevent Duty,
FGM

Hello! My name is Manjola. Taking care of children during the early years is simply one of the most fulfilling phases of being a nursery nurse. Hearing the voices of the children and seeing their faces lightened up with fervour each time they learn something new. Undoubtedly it brings me boundless joy. I enjoy involving them in different creative fields such as music, dance, art and craft.

Qualifications and training:

Safeguarding,
Prevent Duty,
FGM

My name is Tracy. I have been working with Tweenies for the past 9 years. I enjoy working with all age groups. The best part of my job is watching children grow and learn great things.

Qualifications and training:

NVQ level 2 in childcare and education,
First aider,
Safeguarding level 1

My name is Maria. My career has always been focused on teaching. I have experience working as a science music and Spanish teacher in my native country Spain. I believe that being a teacher is a wonderful profession and the most rewarded thing is seeing children’s development and progress with my expertise implanted in place.

Qualifications and training:

QTS,
Degree in Biology,
Master’s degree in Teaching,
Teaching Spanish to younger learners

My name is Priyanka. I have been working in childcare for over 2 years and have had experience working with babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers. From an early age, looking after children is something that I really enjoy. I am developing my knowledge on all the 7 areas of developments that help the children to grow. Teaching and planning activities are very important to me as this plays a huge part to further the child’s development.

Qualifications and training:

Paediatric First Aid,
Food and Hygiene level 2,
Safeguarding,
Prevent Duty,
FGM,
Quality Teaching, Learning and Interactions,
Promoting Positive Behaviour,
Prepare for Inspection

My name is Emanuela I am an Italian chef, I like to cook many fresh foods. My passion to cook for children and see them happy fills my heart with joy.

Qualifications and training:

Food & Hygiene,
Safeguarding