Goldsworthy Class Learning Story

Goldsworthy Class is using their ears!

Goldsworthy Class is using their ears!

We have been learning about the 5 senses in our science lessons. We have learnt the 5 different senses; sight, touch, smell, taste and hearing. Today we went on a listening walk. We went into the Key Stage Two playground and we listened to everything that we could...

Eid Mubarak

Eid Mubarak

We were lucky with the weather today, as this afternoon it was beautiful sunshine for our Eid family picnic. It was wonderful to see families sharing food and enjoying each other's company in our school grounds. We are very lucky to have such fantastic outdoor areas...

Bread Making in Year 1!

Bread Making in Year 1!

We have been learning to write instructions in our English lessons. We used the Little Red Hen as our stimulus. In the story the Little Red Hen made bread, so we decided we should try making bread as well but first we had to write our instructions. After writing our...

Goldsworthy’s Class Assembly

We had our class assembly today! We acted out the story we have been learning, Farmer Duck. Rida and Aisha read out their diary entries from their English books. Rida read her diary entry of the Farmer and Aisha read her diary entry of the Duck. We recounted our trip...

We have cocoons in Poppy Class.

Our caterpillars have finished eating all their food and have now spun their cocoons. We put them in our butterfly net and we are now waiting patiently. We have been researching caterpillars and finding out all about them this week, we went out into the garden to see...

Caterpillars have arrived in Poppy Class.

This week tiny caterpillars arrived in Poppy Class. We had to be very careful when holding their pot, we used two hands and we were very gentle. At the moment they are very busy eating the food at the bottom of their pot. They are growing very quickly and we can't...

The Hungry Caterpillar

The Hungry Caterpillar

We've been learning the story of the Hungry Caterpillar. This week we decided to go for a mini-beast hunt, thinking about where insects live, what they eat, and what they look like. We also drew pictures of butterflies and labelled our work. Next time we will look at...

Year 1 visit the farm!

Year 1 visit the farm!

Today we went and visited Mudchute Farm. We took the DLR all the way. When we got to the farm we saw all the farm animals; llamas, goats, sheep, pigs, donkeys, ducks, turkeys, chickens, lots of different kinds of birds and horses. We were amazed at all the different...

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!

An annual feature at Lansbury Lawrence is the Easter hat parade, where the whole school comes together, and children in years 1-6 get to strut along a catwalk wearing their wonderful self-made hat creation. Recycled materials feature prominently, as does personal...

Canary Wharf  Rooftop Gardens

Canary Wharf Rooftop Gardens

This term we have been learning about plants and how they grow. We have been growing beans in the Year One corridor and they have been growing so well! We went and visited the Canary Wharf Rooftop Gardens to see some ever bigger plants and to look at all the different...

STEAM Co. Day for British Science Week

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...

We went pond dipping.

We went pond dipping.

Recently, the children have enjoyed finding worms for the chickens. So this week we decided to look for mini-beasts in the pond. First, we watched a short video about pond dipping, and learnt how to make a figure-eight motion with the net to better help us find...

Making smoothies in Poppy Class

On Friday, Poppy Class decided to make some smoothies. Earlier in the week we had written a smoothie recipe as a class so we knew what to do. First we washed our hands, then we carefully chopped up the fruit, next we put the fruit in the blender, after that we added...

Poppy Class meet the chickens

Poppy Class meet the chickens

This week Poppy class went out to meet the chickens in the garden. First we had a discussion about what we know about the chickens. We said things like "they have feathers", "they can flap but they can't fly", "people can eat the eggs if there is no chick inside",...

Safer Internet Day 2019 at Lansbury Lawrence

Safer Internet Day 2019 at Lansbury Lawrence

Online safety focus across the school on February 5th 2019 Left: Year 1 discuss how to keep your personal information safe online. This Tuesday, Lansbury Lawrence marked Safer Internet Day with exciting lessons covering some very important online safety rules....

The Chicken Contract

We have had some new arrivals in our school this week! The chickens!! In class we were talking about how we should look after the chickens and how we should be respectful towards animals, as we are towards humans. We thought about how we could help each other remember...