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.
Ahoy there!
Delaunay set sail on a special trip to the Cutty Sark on Monday. From the moment we arrived, the children's excitement and anticipation filled the air as we waited for the doors to open by taking a stroll around the old ship to see what we could notice. Once on board,...
Questions, Questions, Questions . . .
Riley 4 class has been exploring the exciting world of philosophical thinking by learning how to ask big, meaningful questions. In their P4C lessons, the children practise wondering about life and the world around them, and they have discovered that a good question...
Year 3’s Fantastic Trip to the History Museum!
On today's trip we looked and learnt about volcanic eruptions. We visited a room where we met a member of the museum named Anthony. He showed us different rocks from when a volcano erupted and left behind some pieces. I learnt that lava is about 60 or 70 kilometres...
We’ve completed our SATs
Adyan and Adam are here to describe our marvellous journey through SATS. We have been doing interventions since September and it helped us do the best in our SATs. In class we've been doing Maths and Reading revision repeatedly for us to understand and learn hard...
Celebrating Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday in Year 3!
This week in Year 3, we had a very special reason to celebrate- Sir David Attenborough turning 100! Inspired by his incredible work protecting our planet, the children took part in a thoughtful and powerful P4C lesson all about caring for the Earth. Learning About Our...
Kapoor’s Trip to Mudchute Farm
On Wednesday, we went to Mudchute Farm. We loved it! First, we walked to the DLR and changed trains at Canary Wharf. Next, we arrived at Mudchute DLR. We walked down a long, long dirt road. We could hear the birds singing. They sounded beautiful. Then, we walked into...
Reception in Bloom
Spring has arrived in Reception, and the children have been busy exploring all the wonderful changes this season brings. We’ve been noticing new colours, new growth, and lots of signs that the world around us is waking up again. The children enjoyed a lovely walk to...
Tiny Beginnings to Big Changes in Hamilton Class
The children in Hamilton Class have been busy exploring the wonderful world of life cycles! We learned that a life cycle shows the different stages a living thing goes through as it grows – and that it keeps repeating again and again. We looked at lots of different...
Hepworth Class are curious…
This half term, year 3 are learning about the 'Mountains and Volcanoes of the World'. At Lansbury Lawrence, we promote curiosity through our learning dispositions and this morning, Hepworth Class shared some of the questions they have about mountains and volcanoes......
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...