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.
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...
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...
Eco-Schools Green Flag
Last week our Eco Committee did a brilliant job answering questions about our Eco-Schools progress to a visiting assessor. They confidently spoke about how we have improved our energy usage, waste and biodiversity at Lansbury Lawrence. The assessor had a good look...
Kahlo class learn to harvest in the Edible Garden.
Today we were working with Joe, our school gardener; we learnt how to water plants and pick the purple and green, long and bumpy beans. We enjoyed watering and we saw the most beautiful flowers ever! We saw grapes and some children ate them; they were amazingly...
Joining the fight for clean air in Tower Hamlets
This year, our school has joined a number of initiative to encourage our children to learn about air quality in London. In year 5, we have had air quality workshops - learning about how pollution moves with the wind and can become trapped, learnt about the cleanest...
Photography Club
In photography club we looked at the story of the Cottingly Fairies. In 1917 two little girls called Elsie and Frances were playing with a camera, they decided to create some fairies to take photos of but because photography was so new people had not realised you...