Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery St Albans Orient Close

Amanda Griffiths
Nursery Manager/Proprietor

Designated Safeguarding Lead

Amanda owns and manages Monkey Puzzle St Albans and is a qualified primary teacher with an abundance of experience with children of all ages.
Designated Safeguarding Officer.
Behaviour Management Officer.
Paediatric First Aid Qualified.

Level 2 Nutrition For Health Qualified

Amanda has a passion that children’s views and point of views are heard and valued.

Being a mum of two and a volunteer Childline counselor keeps Amanda’s spare time extremely full!

Hannah Ward

Operations & Training Manager

Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery

SENCO Trained

Designated Safeguarding Officer

Hannah has worked at Monkey Puzzle as part of the Senior Management Team since 2011, and managed Monkey Puzzle, Ridgmont road from 2015 – 2019.

The role of Operations and Training Manager is exciting and diverse with Hannah creating and maintain a culture of self-evaluation and reflective practice throughout both nursery settings.

She studied Childcare and Education at Hertford regional college, Ware and gained her Diploma, Level 3 in 2007. Hannah went onto successfully complete the Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for the Children & Young Peoples Workforce (Early Years) in 2016.

Hannah loves being part of children’s early years and has a strong interest in observing children’s growth and development, finding ways to support and encourage this.

In her spare time socializing with friends and family, cooking and shopping is important and more recently being mum to her beautiful daughter!