Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Philosophy for Children, also referred to as P4C, is a subject that enables children to think with others and for themselves. Children learn and engage with four key skills in P4C which are: caring, collaborative, creative and critical. Within their P4C lessons, children explore big ideas that exist both in education and their day-to-day lives. Children also take part in dialogue and enquiry to help them to think, speak, listen and learn to live together more effectively.
Completing our discussion
Our P4C discussion cycle came to a close this week. After exploring our initial responses to a stimulus, both year one classes chose to discuss the following question: If a person has power, should they try to help everybody? If someone gets hurt or gets into trouble,...
Power in P4C with year 1
Year 1 are enjoying using P4C to develop their skills of thinking, talking and understanding this half term. The enthusiasm, creativity and curiosity they have shown in their philosophy lessons so far has been extremely pleasing to see, and lots of the children's...
What is a collaborative thinker?
. . . This is the question that Delaunay were posed in P4C yesterday. During the lesson, they were tasked with testing each other's capacity for listening and responding, and there were smiles all around. This half term, we will continue to use our lessons to...
Our Autumn Two learning wrapped up…
As the autumn leaves fall, signalling the end of another term, it's time to wrap up the chapter of learning that Goldsworthy and Kapoor have experienced in these past few months. Our topic this term was about Kings and Queens: are they real or only in fairytales?...we...
P4C Ambassadors 2023-24
The newly-appointed P4C ambassadors at Lansbury Lawrence met for their first meeting yesterday. On the student-led agenda was discussing how we can support all children at our school to enjoy their philosophy lessons, and how to connect each half-term's stimulus more...
Our Autumn 1 Learning
This term, in history, I have learnt about Poplar Rates Rebellion and how it started.In 1921 the government was greedy at that time and the rents were the same as everyone and the wealthy didn't want to have the same rents as the poor so the government said that for...
Delaunay discussing and voting
Delaunay had their last P4C lesson of the half-term yesterday. Children discussed their chosen question: Is it possible to be friends with everyone? Afreen: If you only have a few friends, that can teach you how to be friends with anyone. Areen: You can have lots of...
Art teacher training
Last week we hosted the second art & design training day led by Lansbury Lawrence to London East Teacher Training Alliance (LETTA) trainee teachers. We have led our training in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery. The first session was held at the gallery,...
Congratulations to Lansbury Lawrence!
We are very proud to announce that we have been awarded the P4C SAPERE Gold Award! On Thursday, 8th June 2023, Lansbury Lawrence were assessed for the P4C SAPERE Gold Award. Alison Allsopp, our Gold award assessor, came in to talk to our children, parents, teachers...
Our week in class
by the whole class This week, we learnt a lot about computing, French, English, P4C and mountains - Syeda Computing We used Canva to design a poster for a religious event. In RE, we learnt that religions use their buildings for chats, helping and singing as well as...