Hokusai Class Learning Story
Year 1 visit St Mary and St Joseph’s Church
Today year 1 visited St Mary and St Joseph's Catholic Church in Poplar. Father Keith, the priest, gave us a tour of the church and explained what the different objects and images were. We found out lots of very interesting information. After our visit we went for a...
Year 1 Reading meeting information
Year 1 Reading Challenge Book of the Week
This week's recommended book is Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers. It's the story of a sad, lonely penguin who appeared at the door of a young boy. The boy decided he must be lost, so he set off to find his home. The boy asked the Lost and Found Office, some birds, and...
Year 1 Reading Challenge Book of the Week
Are you looking for something to read this week? The Tiger who came to tea is a great book to share with your family! The doorbell rings just as Sophie and her mummy are sitting down to tea. Who could it possibly be? It’s a big, friendly tiger who stays for tea. He...
The Great Year 1 Reading Challenge
The reading challenge has begun in year 1- all children have until the 7th July to read as often as they can and record it in their reading passports. 15 entries in the passports earns the bronze award. 30 entries earns the silver award. 45 entries earns the gold...
Moving Pictures
Yr1 Transport Moving Pictures Your browser does not support the use of IFRAMES Year 1 learned about slider and lever mechanisms in DT through making moving pictures. O'Keefe Class made hot air balloons, cars, submarines, boats and aeroplanes move across the page as...
The Great Year 1 Reading Challenge
The Great Year 1 Reading Challenge launches this week- watch this space for more...
Year 1 maths
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Year 1 PE
Today year 1 worked really hard in PE. They were making their bodies into tuck, pike, pencil and straddle positions before connecting themselves together to form different shapes. They had to work together and discuss their ideas in order to be...
Year 1 Fractions
Today year 1 immersed themselves in their new maths topic- fractions! They were halving and quartering shapes, play dough, sweets, cakes and string. They found out they needed to share their objects evenly into equal parts....
Google Virtual Reality!
WOW! What a day we had last Wednesday 1st March. Who would have thought that Google would come to our school? Well they did.. and they brought in their Google Cardboard Virtual Reality (VR) equipment to give us an experience of a lifetime. It was amazing! We went to...
Year 1 visit the London Transport Museum
Today year 1 visited the Transport Museum in Covent Garden. We had to use lots of transport to get there- the DLR and two tube trains. At the museum we learnt about how transport in London has changed. We found out that in the past buses were pulled by horses. We...
Yr 1’s transport day
We started off the new half term with a fantastic day learning about different types of transport. We dressed up as London Underground workers and helped passengers scan their oyster cards. We built roads, railways and even a...
Year 1’s Teamwork
This week we have been thinking about what it means to be a kind and helpful member of our class. We have also thought about how we show respect to others by listening to their ideas, taking turns and sharing. We have been working hard with our friends on tasks...
The V & A, Museum of Childhood
On Thursday 12th January, Year 1 visited the V & A, Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green. Here we found all kinds of toys from the past. We discovered the joys of light changes, had a race on the rocking horses and searched high and low for Bunting the Toy Cat!...
Artsmark
At Lansbury Lawrence we are incredibly proud of the opportunities and experiences we offer children within the arts. We regularly organise exciting trips around current learning themes, have visitors in to inspire our creative thinking, and provide continued...
Amazing Home Learning Project
Arafah and her family made a hot air balloon for our Toy Museum topic. She used a balloon which she covered with newspaper and tissue paper before making the passengers. 'I really enjoyed making it and feel very...
Year 1 visit the Museum of Childhood
This week we visited the museum as part of their topic on toys. After travelling by DLR and Tube from school we arrived at the museum where we met a teacher called Mr Paul. He taught us all about old and new toys. We learnt what children in the past played with- whip...
Sound artist visits year 1
This week Gawain, a sound artist working with Wigmore Hall, visited year 1. We met Gawain in October when he went with us to Mudchute farm. He brought along his guitar and taught us a song about a farmyard. He also brought his sound equipment which he connected to...
Patchwork landscapes
In year 1 today we looked at aerial photographs of farmland. We were surprised to see the different shapes and colours juxtaposed with each other, and decided to make our own version. First we painted backgrounds in varying shades of green. Some of us practised our...
Year 1 visit the Library of Everything
Last week we arrived at school to find a bookcase blocking the entrance to Mr O' Regan's office. He couldn't get in- no one could work out what had happened. We discovered a lost book in our classroom which Petra, the librarian, told us belonged to The Library of...
Visit to the Farm!
On Friday 4th November, Year 1 went on a trip to Mudchute Farm. As soon as we got there we were on the lookout for different kinds of animals. We saw horses, chickens and lamas, ponies and cows, ducks, very noisy geese and huge squealing pigs. We also went head to...
Year 1 visit the farm
On Friday 4th November 2016 year 1 visited Mudchute Farm on the Isle of Dogs. The farm is huge! It is home to lots of different animals. We saw goats, sheep, alpacas, horses, pigs, ponies, chicken and geese. We spent lots of time looking at the animals and listened to...
International day
Once again we had a fun afternoon at Lansbury Lawrence celebrating the cultural diversity of our school. Thanks to the mums who came and ran the stalls at the International Market. The variety of food made by the mums was delicious and everyone enjoyed tasting it. We...
A walk in the woodland
Today year 1 visited Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park in Mile End. They had a wonderful time crunching through fallen leaves, collected seeds and sticks (to make their own stick people) and looked for animals and birds. They discovered that a woodland is a magical place...