Working in collaboaration with Akram Khan Company, Lansbury Lawrence was successful in securing funding from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Teacher Development Fund for five Tower Hamlets primary schools to work with professional dancers. The project is developing teachers understanding of dance and movement, and how this new learning can be incorporated within their teaching practice.
As the art organisation partnering with Lansbury Lawrence on the teacher training programme, we are impressed by the level of ambition they have for their children and staff. The school’s ethos combined with the skillset and and vision of the Assistant Headteacher, Kerri Sellens, enables our collaboration to develop teachers’ confidence and understanding of dance whilst making a long-term impact on the bigger community of Tower Hamlets through children and families.
The school has a profound conviction that the arts can contribute to spark something in each one of us and we are grateful to work with an education organisation that shows such an unwavering commitment to explore creative practices and create opportunities to inspire their children and workforce further. The school brings an indisputable level of excellence and integrity to the global field of education.
From Dance to Descriptive Writing
This half-term, Year Six are reading Aladdin in English. We created short choreographies to support and inspire our descriptive writing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iZfoI87G-w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mJLsyOnax8 Thanks for watching us dance and reading...
Bringing Ancient Egypt to Life Through Dance
This week, Lichtenstein Class welcomed visitors from Wales into our classroom to see how we brought Ancient Egypt to life through movement.. Together, we explored The Landmarks Game — an activity where the children used their bodies to recreate famous Ancient Egyptian...
Poplar Rates Rebellion
This half-term, the children have been learning all about the Poplar Rates Rebellion. At the end of the half-term, they produced a fantastic double page spread which answered the guiding question: What is the significance of the Poplar Rates Rebellion. Highlights of...
Dancing away with The Akram Khan Dance Company
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZHyc3_Jodg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0199W-4Z1Y What another wonderful opportunity we've had to work with The Akram Khan Dance Company!Both Lichtenstein Class and Peggy Angus Class were thrilled to take part in an inspiring...
Dance at Lansbury Lawrence
A recent case study published by the Chartered College of Teaching as part of their Rethinking Curriculum project, highlighting the positive impact of our Paul Hamlyn funded dance project with Akram Khan Company....
Dance makes me feel . . .
brave calm excited amazing like a queen free extraordinary joyful
Lichtenstein Take a Giant Leap into Space… Through Dance!
This term, Lichtenstein Class have been on an exciting creative journey, exploring our Summer topic: Space, in a completely new way: through dance! Every Tuesday, we were lucky enough to be joined by Rachele, a talented dance artist, who has collaborated with the...
Dance and Plants
Link to our first blog showcasing our dance - https://lansburylawrence.towerhamlets.sch.uk/plants/ Last Friday, we went to Spotlight to perform our dance on plants. We've been working with Akram Khan Dance Company for the last few weeks and we have learnt so much. A...
Another wonderful year of DANCE
Here is the film produced by Akram Khan Company, which is the celebration of the second year of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation funded project we co-designed and led over five local primary schools. It features some beautiful dancing from children, Mr Daley and Ms Ferdous...
Jungle Book at Lansbury Lawrence
Professional dancers, Matthew Sandiford and Jan Mika Villaneuva, came to Lansbury Lawrence today to perform to our whole school this afternoon. They had created a short montage from Jungle Book Reimagined, an Akram Khan performance that has been touring the world....