Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.
Learning Dispositions: Nurturing the Path to Better Learning
Following a two-year journey of research and exploration, the staff at Lansbury Lawrence have developed a comprehensive set of Learning Dispositions.
Drawing from research and methodologies around metacognition, we evaluated various approaches, seeking to pinpoint the learning dispositions that would best empower our young pupils and support our values and ethos. Throughout this process, we established connections to the Philosophy for Children programme, which is embedded at Lansbury Lawrence as a P4C Gold school.
An invaluable source of inspiration lies in the work of Professor Bill Lucas and The Creative Habits of Mind model. Lansbury Lawrence has a firm belief in nurturing creativity and cultural capital.
Additionally, we found resonance in the work of Professor Guy Claxton and his Building Learning Power approach.
Building upon these exemplars and further research by Lucas and Claxton, who are both researchers in the field of education, our Learning Dispositions framework has been designed to specifically equip our pupils with the tools needed to thrive both academically and beyond.
Our Learning dispositions of resilience, curiosity, articulateness, imagination, and reflection are crucial for children to understand how they learn and become better learners.
A Trip to the Cutty Sark: Learning Like Real Sailors!
Today we went to Cutty Sark with our adults and our friends. This term we are learning about Christopher Columbus and the Seven continents so it was a great for us to go and see a real life ship for the first time! Some of us have never been on a ship so it was nice!...
Tasting tea, making bread and volcanic eruptions
This half term, we read Cloud Tea Monkeys. This book is about a girl named Tashi who lives in a village below the tea plantations where her mother earns a living. In our first lesson, we got to taste different types of tea. We discussed the appearance, aroma, flavour...
Composting with Hamilton Class
What is the point of compost? Compost Enriches and Builds Healthy SoilAdds organic matter to the soil and increases the nutrient content and biodiversity of microbes in soil. Conserves water and reduces water use by helping soils retain moisture. Helps prevent soil...
Philosothon Friday
by Dawud, Sara, Zakai, Zara, Suzan, Zaynab U, Rayan, Zaynab A At the philosothon we spoke to other schools about P4C and we had a big discussion. First we used a question and answer game to start us off, and we had to walk around the room responding and exchanging...
“From Magic Paintbrushes to World Maps
What a fantastic week it’s been in Year 2, filled with creativity, curiosity, and lots of learning!In English, the children have been diving into the story of The Magic Paintbrush. They’ve been retelling the tale not only through speaking but also through dance —...
We are learning about Plants!
This half term, we have been learning about plants. We have been working with Akram Khan Dance to help our learning in how plants grow and what they need to survive. Warm up Modelling Cycle of a plant Forest School and GardeningMs Boglietti and Joe the Gardener taught...
What do all ancient civilisations have in common?
Last half term, our topic was Ancient Civilisations. We learnt about the development and successesof The Ancient Sumer, The Ancient Egyptians, The Shang Dynasty and The Indus Valley and considered the similarities that these impressive societies shared. We visited the...
Visit to the British Museum
This week, Year 3 went on a visit to the British museum. This visit was linked to our big question for this half-term, what do all ancient civilisations have in common. We saw lots of ancient artefacts from all over the world. Some were almost gigantic, whilst others...
Reflecting on a Wonderful Term of Learning and Growth
As we approach the end of this school term, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the incredible experiences and lessons we’ve shared together. It’s been a term full of exciting learning, new discoveries, and meaningful connections. Today, Delaunay took the chance to...
Easter Hat Parade 2025
This Thursday, Hokusai class used their imaginative and reflective dispositions to help us create some fun and creative Easter hats! We only used recyclable materials and had lots of fun putting together our hats. We helped each other when we needed it, but mostly we...