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.
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....
Learning Dispositions in Yinka Class: A case study
Learning dispositions are habits of learning that we foster and encourage in students to help them grow and develop as learners. These habits are embodied in different students in different ways all across the school, but are particularly varied in their presentation...
Learning Dispositions by the Arts Council!
This year the Arts Council have been working with a Bow Artist named Tom Berry. We worked with him last term to create a group of interesting panels based on our five learning dispositions. Our five learning dispositions are to be articulate, curious, reflective,...
Arts Council exploring our Learning Dispositions
The Arts Council have begun visually exploring our school learning dispositions with artist, Tom Berry. They explored what reflective, resilient, curious, articulate and imaginative mean, and how an image could interpret those definitions. This work will inspire new...