Outdoor learning
At Lansbury Lawrence, we are incredibly lucky to have extensive outdoor grounds. The main school building was designed with large accessible spaces on either side. We take huge pride in these areas, and over the years have landscaped them to maximise areas for play while also having natural areas to support habitats and maintain mature growth. Some of our trees were planted by royalty! We have a wide range of fruit trees, and our raspberry bushes are popular with the children when the fruit is ripe. Our ‘secret garden’ is home to chickens, and a small pond area too.
In 2018, we were awarded the Tower Hamlets in Bloom ‘Best Newcomer’ award, in recognition of our grounds. The following year, 2019, we went on to win the ‘Best Educational Establishment’ award.
Edible Playground
In 2018, the mayor of Tower Hamlets, John Biggs, officially opened our Edible Playground in one of our playgrounds. The Edible Playgound was designed and built by the charity ‘Trees for Cities’. We have a large area of raised beds, where we grow and harvest fruit and vegetables. Every child within the school has a timetabled half term to work with Joe, our school gardener, to learn about growing food through the seasons. We run family gardening sessions during school holidays, to continue the planting and harvesting cycle all year round. Have a look at the films we made with Trees for Cities below, for some planting top tips.
Eco Committee
Our Eco Committee is made up of children from across the school, who care about our environment. In 2019, they confidently spoke about how we have improved our energy usage, waste and biodiversity at Lansbury Lawrence, to an assessor as part of our Eco Schools progress. As a result of this, we were the first school in Tower Hamlets to receive the Eco Schools Green Flag Award. We are so incredibly proud of everyone at Lansbury Lawrence for all of their work making our environment a better place.
Forest School
We believe Forest School supports children to become healthy, resilient, creative and independent learners, while nurturing understanding and respect for our environment. Every child in the school has timetabled Forest School sessions. These sessions are currently led by Ms Boglietti, a trained Forest School practitioner. As part of our continued professional development programme for teachers, we have also trained Ms King (Early Years lead teacher) as a Forest School practitioner, as part of our on-going commitment to outdoor teaching and learning.
Learning in our green spaces 🌼
As Hokusai's focus in science is now on plants, we have been making the most of the school's green spaces to identify, describe, investigate and explore. On a recent Roman plant hunt, the children were surprised to learn about the species of plants on our grounds that...
The air we breath
The Eco Committee were planting trees in the school grounds today. We've had about 90 trees donated by the Woodland Trust. We already have lots of trees at Lansbury Lawrence, and our outside areas are something we are very proud of. We want to develop them further to...
Forest School Friday
This week KS2 had a great week in their Forest School sessions. It was so much warmer and we discussed how spring was finally here! We started the afternoon with a game of 'Early Bird Gets the Worm' where we had to race to catch the worm in the middle of the space....
Forest School Friday
This afternoon it was KS2's turn to get outside in the cold and enjoys some Forest School activities. We started with a warm up game of Eagle vs prey.... because we really did need warming up! Then we explored the grounds to see what birds we could spot. Looking up we...
Making Bird Feeders
Today we had our time with Joe the Gardener. He had made us such a fun lesson and we were helping nature. We got to make bird feeders to hang in the school playground. We took an I pad to take practice our photography skills too! First Joe had to drill holes into the...
Vocabulary Fun
Today's blog is written by everyone in Delaunay Class. We hope you enjoy it. Yesterday, we went to explore the wild garden. We took our whiteboards and pens so that we could write down phrases and adjectives. Here we all are ready to explore. Busy writing. First, we...
Our School Wormery
Yesterday, members of the school eco committee met with some of our important lunch staff to witness the results of their work over the last few months. Each day after lunch, leftover salad & food is collected from the kitchen by eco committee members and placed...
Habitat Hunters
On Wednesday afternoon Delaunay class had a fantastic workshop led by members of the RSPB. First we watched a video and learnt about the variety of animal species that live in great Britain. Did you know there are Dolphins and Whales in our oceans? Next we got ready...
Who lives in the Secret Garden?
We have had a great start to 2020 this week. Our new learning theme is all about the Secret garden and it's amazing habitats. We had a great hook day on Tuesday. Have a look at what we got up to. All of year two together. Hunting for worms in the mud I wonder who...
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...