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.
This Week in Year 2’s Problem Solving Lesson: Exploring Squares!
This week in our problem-solving lesson, we had a fantastic time exploring squares. Our challenge was to find as many squares as we could within a larger square. It was a great way to think carefully and work strategically. Here’s what we got up to: The Challenge:...
Year 3 at the Natural History Museum: A Roaring Good Time!
Year 3 set off to the Natural History Museum on Wednesday 27th November 2024. It was a long trip to get there, but it was well worth it! Getting ready to go! Waiting at Bow Road. Walking through the long, long tunnel from South Kensington Station to the museum. Once...
Y5’s Visit to the Young V&A Museum
Today, Y5 visited the Young V&A museum in Bethnal Green which has had a huge design renovation! They took part in a Design & Technology workshop in which they used Lego to create different 'people powered' transports! It was so much fun! They first planned...
The award goes to …
We are thrilled to announce that our Year 4 classes have won the Young City Makers Award in the most imaginative category, for our model "The City of Dreamers". This incredible prize recognizes the children's enthusiasm and creativity to shape the environment for the...
Kahlo Class have superpowers…
In art, Kahlo Class took time to look closely at the painting, The Tailor by Lubaina Himid. What can we see if we look really closely? What can we learn? We learned new vocabulary connected to portrait work, including the 'sitter', the person who is the focus of the...
Year 1 Trip to St Mary’s & St Joseph’s Catholic Church
On Wednesday morning, Year 1 had a very special adventure! We visited St. Mary’s & St. Joseph’s Catholic Church and it was a trip full of amazing discoveries. Here’s a look at all the fun things we learned and did! First we greeted Father Andrew with a bright...
Our book of Kindness
Tagore class had a wonderful opportunity to visit the nursery with something very special – their very own “Book of Kindness,” which they created themselves! They were so excited to share their ideas on how to be kind with the nursery children. The little ones loved...
Welcome to Carle Class
This week we have been settling new children! We have been working on all of our learning dispositions but especially being curious and resilient. Many children will be leaving their grown ups for the first time and will be being resilient when learning new school...
My Story and My Week
by Anayah and Safa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhQZBneh2Bc We have been reading a story called Stop! That's Not My Story. In English we are going to write our own story. We will be the main character. In PE, we did dancing. We moved like a piece of paper, a cloth...
Our week in Delaunay class
by Humam and Areen We enjoyed using a number line to tell the time. We were in the playground, and we counted in fives to make a straight line then turned our groups of 5 into a clock. Later this half term, I am looking forward to being an even better mathematician....