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.
The most amazing Easter Hat Parade Ever!
Every year we gather together to celebrate Easter and the making of our celebrated recycled Easter Hats. Every child gets the opportunity to bring recycled materials from home and make, using their imagination and creativity, an Easter hat. The children strutted their...
Our Windy Tower Bridge Adventure!
Year 2 children had a brilliant day exploring London on our Tower Bridge trip. It was a sunny and a windy afternoon. We began our journey on the DLR from Poplar and got off at Tower Gateway ready for a full day of adventure. As soon as we stepped out the sightseeing...
Eid Celebrations in Hadid Class
We had a fun time in Hadid class celebrating Eid last Thursday. We had so many snacks, shared home made party food and played games. One fun activity that we did was decorating biscuits with henna like patterns. Enjoy some of the pictures we took during our...
P4C in Year 3
This week in Philosophy for Children (P4C), Year 3 have been exploring big ideas, practising collaboration and thinking deeply about what brings people together. What Does It Mean to Be Collaborative? We kicked off by unpacking the word collaborative. The children...
Year 2 Exploring Living, Dead and Never Alive
Year 2 had an exciting Science Day filled with curiosity, teamwork and real scientific thinking. Our young scientists explored one of the big questions in biology: What makes something alive? They investigated living things, dead things, and things that have never...
Science Week in Year 3
We began our science investigation by exploring how flowers drink water. Each group placed a white flower into a glass pot filled with water and added a different food colouring to each one. We also kept one pot with clear water to use as our control. Our question...
Scientists Visit Lansbury Lawrence for BSW
To celebrate British Science Week, we invited some very special guests to come into Lansbury Lawrence School, to talk to pupils about their jobs involving Science. Our guests were people from our local community, so that included parents of 2 pupils, a relative of 1...
🌱✨ Our Learning in Spring 2 So Far – Year 1 ✨🌱
We have been very busy in Year 1 this half term and have enjoyed lots of exciting learning across different subjects. In Art, we explored the work of Paul Klee and created our own castle pictures. We used rulers and shapes to design our castles and then carefully...
🧵✨ DT Day in Year 1: Puppet Making! ✨🧵
Year 1 had a fantastic time celebrating DT Day by designing, making and reflecting on our very own puppets! First, we became designers. We carefully drew and labelled our puppet ideas, thinking about what we wanted our puppet to look like and how we would decorate it....
📖 Goldsworthy’s World Book Day 📖
We had such a wonderful time celebrating World Book Day in Year 1! The classroom was full of excitement as we shared and discussed our favourite books and characters. It was lovely hearing each other talk so enthusiastically about the stories we love. We then got...