Riley Class Learning Story
Riley’s Return
After several weeks in lockdown, students in Riley class returned to school over the last two days, and they have written this blog to tell everyone about their time back in class. "Three months ago, Monday would have just been a normal start to another week at...
Riley Class go Online
With our school having moved to online learning in light of the recent school closures, students in Riley Class have already embraced Google Classrooms and have started to explore the online resources that the school has provided to them. Learning packs were also sent...
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...
Rocking out with our times tables!
Children from both year four classes have been keen to see their names celebrated on the school's Times Tables Rockstars board. This week, Van Gogh class were Class of the Week and the two sets of students have come together to write this blog about their recent...
Year 3 exhibition at Tate Britain
Year 4 visited Tate Britain to view a very special exhibition. Last year, we had a photogrpaher come in to school to take class photographs as part of the Year 3 project by the artist, Steve McQueen. McQueen had hundreds of school photographs taken of year 3 children...
Anglo Saxons & Scots Immersion
Riley class had a fun day immersing themselves into their new learning theme this term which is on Anglo Saxons and the Scots. They learnt a brief timeline of Anglo Saxon history which they will deepen their knowledge on this term. They made a map of early Britain...
“The Snow Queen”
The Snow Queen was the fantastic production performed by years 4,5 & 6.The play was written by Year 6 and performed by children from year 5 with each year performing their own song connected with the narrative. The confidence and vocal projection was outstanding...
Y4’s Tropical Experience
year 4 visited the Sky Garden near Canary Wharf which is home to numerous tropical, exotic plants and trees from around the world. We went to help deepen our understanding of rain forests which is the curriculum theme this term. We are also learning about living...
Going Outdoors
With the world's rainforests as our theme this half-term and the school's gardens serving as our own mini forest, we have been exploring our green spaces to help us learn more about geography and science. "Look what I found!" Using classification keys to consider the...
“Hear, hear!”
In English recently, Riley have been sharpening their debating skills. The children started by thinking aloud to explore their ideas and consider more than one side of an argument, then a passionate formal debate was soon underway. The class drew on the assistance of...
Musicians in the making.
With the musical instruments lessons carrying through into the new half term, Riley Class are looking forward to continuing to embrace the opportunity and seeing what they can make of their musical talents. Playing some sweet jazz. The children's enthusiasm has...
Riley class have an ‘electric’ time
Riley class had a fun- packed Science lesson being mini electricians when they were building circuits. They were given some resources - a light bulb, 2 crocodile wires and batteries then had to work out how to connect them together correctly to make a complete...
Family Science experiments
Thank you to parents and children who have been sending in their amazing photographs of the Family Science experiments! These look phenomenal! I hope it is helping children learn more about the science around them (especially in their homes) and you are enjoying the...
Arts and Crafts Club
Today we had a fantastic Arts and Crafts Club after school. We looked at floral pictures like this for inspiration. We were inspired by the petals and how they had such lovely overlapping layers. We decided to try to create cards that were 3-D to represent real...
Musical Madness
Today was the first day of our exciting new musical instruments lessons. Year 4 & 5 children are learning how to play the Trombone, Flute, Trumpet, Violin, Clarinet and the Cello. What a wonderful opportunity! Everyone really enjoyed their musical instrument...
Legends of the Internet
Last week, Lansbury Lawrence was visited by ParentZone & Google to talk all about online safety. There were two people who helped us - Jenny and Jennie! They brought lots of energy to our afternoon and invited us to join them on a journey to Interland. We learned...
Year 4’s Tower of London trip
As part of our learning theme on Community and also our English unit studying Shakespeare’s Richard III, year 4 today went to the Tower of London. This trip was special because it put into context the deep history that year 4 are learning about Richard’s greed to take...
Place Value in Maths
Riley class started their Maths topic today by completing a carousel of various activities that are all about Place Value. They used concrete resources to represent 3 and 4 digit numbers, estimated the amount of sweets in various jars, partitioned numbers in different...
Riley’s Community Immersion day
Riley class had a wonderful first day back today after a restful summer break. Our learning theme this term is all about Community so the class spent the afternoon researching about Tower Hamlets and its rich and diverse community. Have a look at some of the tasks the...
A Very Special Breakfast
Today was a very special morning for the children of breakfast club. We ate cheese puffs, milkshakes and chocolate breakfast bars to mention a few of the treats. This was one of our last breakfasts together for this academic year. We have had a wonderful time with the...
We’re going on a plant hunt…
Today 3A and 3B went to the nature garden and The Edible Playground and we were looking at the plant life cycle. We were split into different groups and our class was looking at different stages of growth. The groups were: germination, buds and flowers, pollination,...
Seeds of knowledge
Year 3 became seed scientists today during our lesson on seed dispersal. First, we identified the different ways plants dispersed their seeds. We cam up with: Animals, Water, Wind and Explosions! Once we had decided the categories, we investigated a wide variety of...
A capacity for measuring!
Year 3 poured themselves into their learning today as they filled jugs and measuring tubes to determine the capacity of various containers. Having estimated the capacity of their bowl or bucket in litres and millimetres they poured water to fill the containers and...
“Make Music Day” 21st June 2019 : Our School Celebration
Today we celebrated “Make Music Day” or “World Music Day” which is a celebration of music around the world on June 21st. Launched in 1982 in France as the Fête de la Musique, it is now held on the same day in more than 1,000 cities in 120 countries. We had...
We love weaving!
Hepworth Class found out that Anglo-Saxons made their clothes by weaving and so we travelled back in time to the Anglo-Saxon period to have a go ourselves! First, we made a loom out of card by cutting notches in each side of a rectangle. Then, we wrapped thick wool...