The Alphabet House Nursery Schools
GoodTakes funded hours★ 4.6 on GoogleBirth to 5Open for decades
A day nursery in London for babies from 3 months up to 5 year olds, open 08:00 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in February 2023. Open since 1999, with 60 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
15 and 30 funded hours (subject to eligibility); up to 15 hours for eligible 2-year-olds; 15 hours for all 3 and 4-year-olds, up to 30 for eligible working families.
Worth knowing. Only stretched funding offered, spread across up to 51 weeks rather than 38 term-time weeks.
What childcare usually costs in Newham
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Newham from the Department for Education's 2025 provider survey. No national data holds what an individual nursery charges, so ring and ask.
Places, hours and the day
Who they take, when they are open, and what a day there includes.
Where it is
E13 0SQWhat the inspector found
One grade is one visit. A run of them tells you whether it has been good for years or has only just got there.
Ofsted inspector, 24 February 2023 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children are greeted warmly by staff from the room which they are based in. As children are signed in, parents share information to support staff with their child's care. Children happily greet familiar staff and children. They chat as they walk to their room. Children share news about their morning. They are excited as they talk about who they are going to see and what they will play with. Children enjoy a mix of self-selected and adult-led activities. Staff respond sensitively to children's questions and requests. They know the children well, which helps them to recognise when to offer support or when to wait to encourage children to have a go by themselves.
Staff enhance children's knowledge by linking children's current interests to real-life experiences available in the local community. Children enjoy regular planned outings, including trips to the local library to return and choose new books, a ride on a train or a trip on a 'big red bus'. Children spend time every day in the secure garden. Staff complete checks throughout the day to ensure that the area is clean and safe for children's use. Children and families who speak English as an additional language have access to staff who share their cultural heritage and speak an array of languages. Staff request and use key words in children's home languages, which they thread into conversations. As a result, children are well supported and make progress with their understanding and speaking English.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: - make better use of opportunities to develop and extend children's mathematical skills.
- 24 February 2023Good
- 26 July 2017Good
- 27 February 2014Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for The Alphabet House Nursery Schools
- What it costs
- Meals
- Nappies
- Waiting list
No dataset holds any of this. Two parents telling us the same thing puts it on the page for whoever looks next.
What to ask them
Some of this is above, from the setting or from parents, and it can go out of date. The rest is in no dataset anywhere. Either way it is worth ten minutes on the phone.
- What does it cost, all in? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- How do you apply my funded hours? Whether they stretch them over the year, and the minimum days you have to book.
- Do you have a place for a child of my age now? Baby rooms fill first and waiting lists are common.
- Who would my child's key person be? And how long have the staff been there. No dataset holds this and it matters more than anything above.
- Can I visit at a busy time? Mid-morning on a weekday tells you far more than an empty room after hours.
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