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.
Hepworth Class in the Edible Garden
This half term is year 3's turn for outdoor learning in the edible garden, which fits perfectly with our science learning on plants! Today was a beautiful afternoon for it and we got to see and water the plants, explore the plant beds and got our hands muddy. Here are...
Our trip to the Edible Playground
This morning we made the most of the lovely sun and went on a learning adventure in the Edible Playground. We did a Minibeast fact finding hunt, observational drawings and a Vocabulary spider diagram. Here are lots of beautiful photos from our morning. "It was fun...
All About Our Week
This week in year 2 e have had some lovely learning experiences, we have all worked incredibly hard and have had lots of fun too! First we went of a trip around the KS1 playground with our geography hats on so that we could create some amazing Arial maps of our...
Outdoor learning in Delaunay Class
Its been nearly two weeks since we have come back from our lovely Easter Holidays. In Delaunay class we have been making the most of the warmer weather and have been taking our learning outside. Our theme this half term is "Who Lives in the Secret Garden?" so we have...
ECO Committee plant trees
The Lansbury Lawrence ECO Committee planted a tree with Trees for Cities in Langdon Park yesterday. It was a Tulip Tree, which will grow to be very tall with beautiful flowers on. The leaves will help to stop pollution and make our air cleaner to breathe.
STEAM Co. Day for British Science Week
Monday was a day like no other at Lansbury Lawrence. All of our children went off timetable for the day, and were allowed to explore the school to engage with different Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths activities. It was wonderful to see our older and...
Year 2 Visit the Chickens.
Today our brand new chickens arrived! In year 2 we were so excited we decided to go and visit them this afternoon. We lined up and walked to the secret garden where the hens live. After than we drew pictures of our new friends. Ms Hopkins even went into the run and...
Building our new chicken coop
Last week, Kahlo class began to construct the coop for our new chickens which will be arriving today! As a reward for winning a class token reward in January, Kahlo class were invited to work with our resident gardener Joe to assemble the cage and new homes for our...