The built and rural environments

Takeley Primary School

A Year 1 teacher at Takeley Primary School in Hertfordshire asked her children (five- to six-year-olds) to think about what Rubens's landscape might look like now, nearly 350 years later. Their conversations centred on the development of roads and people's homes, and their impact on the environment. Pupils collected magazine pictures of houses and sorted them by size and the period in which they were built.

Using video camera animation software, the class then filmed the making of their collage, which imagines how the landscape around Rubens's house might have changed gradually over time.

© Takeley Primary School. Photo: The National Gallery, London.