O’Keeffe Class Learning Story
O’Keeffe Class is back at school…
What a wonderful day! Music with Mr Haswell We did some reading, maths and music. it was great to be back. Enjoying his learning. It was lovely to see the children at school today. They enjoyed all the learning and we had lunch together in the playground. All the...
Welcome back Poppy Class!
Housna is happy to be back. Good climbing Liam! Md Ali is drawing a flower. Fatima and Liam are busy in the Construction Area. Fatima enjoying the garden! Lets climb! Tabgila skillfully moving along the wooden post. Tabgila is writing a sentence. Md Ali is happy to...
STEAM Day 2020
What is STEAM? STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths. At Lansbury Lawrence, we have a special celebration of the subjects once a year during British Science Week, called STEAM Day. STEAM Day is very special because children have the...
Celebrating Chinese New Year.
This week we have been celebrating Chinese New Year. We learnt about how in China people dress up as dragons and Lions and perform street dances. We made our own masks and performed to the music of Chinese drums.
Introducing Woodwork into our classroom.
During Circle-Time we introduced the hammer and nails and talked about how to use them safely. Then we practised using them. We used the woodwork bench in small groups, always wearing our goggles, and next week we will introduce other tools. The children have been...
“Together at Christmas”
Last Thursday we had our performances of our Christmas show for years 1,2 & 3 called "Together at Christmas". The show was a celebration of this special time of year and each class sang a Christmas song, read a poem or a wonderful Christmas themed reading. Well...
Free-flow in Reception.
We have been learning about taking care of our world. Umkhulsum is reading a book about keeping the beach clean and why it is important to recycle. Housna is drawing a picture of herself. She has found her mini-mi to help her remember what she looks like. The children...
Diwali
We have been celebrating the Hindu Festival of Light - Diwali. We have learnt about the festival, created Rangoli art, and listened to traditional Indian music. Yesterday we made candle-holders from clay, and today we added candles and lit them.
Recent learning in Poppy Class.
We have been talking about what we look like, describing what makes us the same but also different. We then made our self-portraits. Fatima practises her sight words. We have been exploring where we live - our homes, our streets, our city and our planet. We made art...
Numbers within 5
This week we have been exploring numbers within 5. We have been learning to line up whatever we are counting, to use one to one correspondence, and to know when to stop. We have also explored how to make five, using smaller numbers. Safia practices writing numbers...
The Wonderful World of O’Keeffe Class
Welcome to Poppy Class
This was our first week in Poppy Class. For all of the wonderful learning that we will need do this coming year, it was very important for us to know our routines, feel settled, and generate a love for school. Look at all these happy Poppies!
This week Daisy Class were pirates.
We have been exploring pirates in our Home Corner, dressing up with eye-patches, pirate hats and finding treasure. We have used this to explore maths, going out into the garden to bury treasure in the mud kitchen, thinking about capacity, shape and measure. We have...
Eid Mubarak
We were lucky with the weather today, as this afternoon it was beautiful sunshine for our Eid family picnic. It was wonderful to see families sharing food and enjoying each other's company in our school grounds. We are very lucky to have such fantastic outdoor areas...
We have cocoons in Poppy Class.
Our caterpillars have finished eating all their food and have now spun their cocoons. We put them in our butterfly net and we are now waiting patiently. We have been researching caterpillars and finding out all about them this week, we went out into the garden to see...
Daisy Class have been estimating the number of different objects.
Aliza and Syeda are estimating the number of blocks. Rayyan, Umar and Aliyah are estimating the number of tables. Musa tries to work out the number of signs on the door. This week we have been exploring estimating the number of different objects. We have tried to work...
Caterpillars have arrived in Poppy Class.
This week tiny caterpillars arrived in Poppy Class. We had to be very careful when holding their pot, we used two hands and we were very gentle. At the moment they are very busy eating the food at the bottom of their pot. They are growing very quickly and we can't...
The Hungry Caterpillar
We've been learning the story of the Hungry Caterpillar. This week we decided to go for a mini-beast hunt, thinking about where insects live, what they eat, and what they look like. We also drew pictures of butterflies and labelled our work. Next time we will look at...
We Love Reading!
Thursday March 7th 2019 was World Book Day, and at Lansbury Lawrence we celebrated our love of books all day long. Our favourite time was when we got to read books to Reception children. Half of Kahlo class went to nursery to read with some bookworms on the grass,...
We went pond dipping.
Recently, the children have enjoyed finding worms for the chickens. So this week we decided to look for mini-beasts in the pond. First, we watched a short video about pond dipping, and learnt how to make a figure-eight motion with the net to better help us find...
Making smoothies in Poppy Class
On Friday, Poppy Class decided to make some smoothies. Earlier in the week we had written a smoothie recipe as a class so we knew what to do. First we washed our hands, then we carefully chopped up the fruit, next we put the fruit in the blender, after that we added...
Daisy Class writes about Little Red Riding Hood.
We made pictures of Little Red Riding Hood in the forest and wrote about her. This was part of our independent writing.
Poppy Class meet the chickens
This week Poppy class went out to meet the chickens in the garden. First we had a discussion about what we know about the chickens. We said things like "they have feathers", "they can flap but they can't fly", "people can eat the eggs if there is no chick inside",...
Little Red Riding Hood left us some flowers.
Little Red Riding Hood left us some flowers in the garden. We decided to keep them safe and explore still life drawing. The children remembered that flowers have petals, stems, and that they belong in a vase. On Friday we will make flowers out of clay!