Moksliukas Canning Town

Bible stories linked to alphabet letters give Moksliukas Canning Town a clear Christian character. Preschool children explore a different letter through a corresponding story each week, alongside Christian singing and daily prayer. Faith is part of the learning day, rather than an occasional celebration. Families choosing this nursery should be comfortable with that emphasis; children from other faiths are also welcome.

At its March 2023 inspection, Ofsted rated the nursery Good overall, with improvements needed in how consistently staff understood activities’ learning aims and helped children understand the consequences of their behaviour. That is a positive dated judgement with two concrete reservations. Both matter when assessing how adults turn play into learning and handle disagreements between children.

The nursery has capacity for 66 children, accepting ages from six months to five years, at 1 Radland Road in Canning Town. Opening hours are 8am to 6pm on weekdays.

Preschool learning combines the EYFS, the framework covering children’s learning and development through areas such as communication, movement, early literacy and mathematics, with a weekly alphabet-linked Bible story, Psalms, Christian rhymes and daily prayer. The Christian activities add a specific religious emphasis alongside the early years framework; they do not replace it.

Learning and Activities

In March 2023, staff sang with babies in Russian, English and Lithuanian, while the babies explored drums and shakers. Adults also responded in children’s home languages before repeating their sentences in English. That offers a useful picture of how language was handled at the time: familiar words gave children a starting point for communication, with English introduced alongside them.

Play had plenty of physical detail in March 2023. Children combined water with sand to make a beach and transferred water using syringes and beakers; elsewhere, chalk drawing and play dough offered opportunities to use their hands before formal writing. These were practical experiences with materials, rather than learning confined to adult-led discussion.

Outdoor and Community Life

A climbing frame featured in children’s play in March 2023. Children balanced as they climbed and talked with friends about where to place their feet. The physical challenge also required cooperation: using the equipment involved paying attention to another child’s movement.

The nursery supports Children in Need and Red Nose Day, bringing fundraising into its community activity. These provide concrete examples of the charitable side of its ethos, alongside its Christian teaching.

Relationships and Communication

Each child has a key person who supports settling, gets to know the family and helps meet individual needs. That practitioner usually handles feeding, changing and comforting, and shares information about the child’s experiences. For a baby or a child new to group care, this gives everyday care a familiar point of contact.

The key person also watches children’s play to plan experiences around their interests and helps them build relationships with other adults and children. The arrangement therefore covers both immediate care and the gradual widening of a child’s social world. Settling sessions are arranged when a family takes a place.

Communication includes daily handovers, noticeboards and parent evenings. Private discussions can be arranged for concerns that need more time or discretion. These serve different purposes: a handover keeps home and nursery connected day by day, while a separate conversation gives families room to discuss development or support needs in detail.

Inclusion and Wellbeing

At the March 2023 inspection, Ofsted judged safeguarding effective and found that staff discussed additional needs sensitively with parents and used targeted help to support children’s progress. These findings belong to that visit. Current arrangements include a designated safeguarding lead and deputy, with a designated person on duty throughout opening hours, and child protection training during staff induction.

SEND support follows an assess, plan, do and review cycle led by the SENCO with the child’s key person and parents. Assessment brings together family knowledge and observations; planning sets the intended outcomes, support and a review date. The key person puts the agreed help into practice, and the subsequent review considers its effect with parents.

This gives families a defined process for discussing what is working and what needs to change. Where specialist assessment is needed, the SENCO contacts outside professionals with parental agreement. Support plans are reviewed with families, and liaison with professionals also covers transitions to other settings and schools.

The inclusion policy provides for changing activities or adding equipment and materials so children can participate. This is a practical mechanism rather than a general promise: an activity can be adapted to the individual child instead of expecting every child to use the same resources in the same way.

Behaviour policy emphasises explanations, adult modelling and individual support, with recurring difficulties considered jointly with parents. The March 2023 concern was that negative behaviour was not addressed consistently enough and children were not always helped to understand its effect on others. The policy sets an intended approach; the dated finding explains why its application deserves attention.

Sessions and Attendance

Moksliukas Canning Town opens Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm, across the year, with Christmas, public holidays and other closure periods excluded. Early drop-off attracts an additional charge. The distinction matters for a working day that begins before the normal opening time.

Enquiries can be made through the Canning Town contact form or by telephone on 02074763944. Waiting-list enquiries are organised around application date, requested days and flexibility, with existing families potentially receiving preference.

Parents should report sickness absence on the same day and keep emergency contact details current. If a child has not arrived within an hour of their usual start, staff telephone the family and then work through emergency contacts if necessary. The procedure links attendance information with checking a child’s whereabouts.

Getting There

The address is 1 Radland Road, Canning Town, London E16 1LN. Bus routes 147, 541 and 241 serve the Hallsville Primary School stop. The nursery is 5 min from Royal Victoria DLR station on foot.

Funding and Paid Extras

Funded childcare is offered, including eligible working-family entitlement beginning from the term after a child turns nine months, support-based entitlement at age two, and universal entitlement for three- and four-year-olds. The nursery fees policy sets out 15-hour and 30-hour entitlements, subject to the relevant eligibility conditions, with the option to stretch term-time funding across the year.

Standard fees include three meals and two snacks; for funded hours, meals and snacks attract a separate daily charge. Families using funding therefore need to distinguish the funded childcare hours from the food charge when comparing their total costs.

Payment is weekly in advance, and a deposit covering two weeks is required before the first full day. Leaving requires one month’s notice, with fees due throughout that notice period, or parents may take the final two weeks without charge as a way of returning the deposit. Children can take two weeks of holiday per year without charge if notice is given beforehand. Current prices come in the nursery’s written quotation.

• Christian teaching. Weekly letter-linked Bible stories, Psalms and daily prayers give preschool learning an explicit faith emphasis. At a visit, discuss how these activities fit your family’s beliefs and your child’s participation.
• Teaching and behaviour. March 2023 brought two improvement priorities: clearer learning aims for staff and more consistent explanations of behaviour’s consequences. Ask for a practical example of how each is handled now.
• Baby care. Children can start from six months. Ask about the usual group size and sleep arrangements for your child’s age during a visit.
• Funded-place costs. Food is separately charged during funded hours, while early drop-off also costs extra. Request a written quotation for your intended attendance.

Moksliukas Canning Town suits families seeking Christian early education, with weekly Bible stories connected to letters and care for children from six months to five years. Its weekday opening window and option to stretch funded hours across the year also give it practical value for families balancing childcare with work.

The Good judgement from March 2023 supports consideration, but the two improvement priorities should remain part of the decision. The strongest next step is to assess how clearly adults explain learning and behaviour, alongside the fit between this nursery’s faith emphasis and family life.