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Take One Picture: An exhibition of work by primary
schools inspired by Rubens's 'A View of Het Steen in
the Early Morning'
Since 1995 the National Gallery has invited primary
schools from across the UK to use paintings in the classroom
as a focus for cross-curricular teaching and learning.
Hundreds of schools have taken up this challenge and
many of these submit work to the annual Take One Picture
exhibition.
This year's exhibition shows some of this work and shares
creative ways of responding to the featured National
Gallery painting, 'An
Autumn Landscape with a View of Het Steen in the Early
Morning' by Peter Paul Rubens. Made in 1691, this
panoramic landscape depicts Rubens's country home at
Elewijt, in an area of natural beauty between Brussels
and Antwerp. It was here that he spent the last years
of his life.
The schools represented in this exhibition are:
- Castlecroft Primary School, Wolverhampton
- Enborne CE Primary School, Newbury
- Esher Church School, Surrey
- Maun Infant & Nursery School, New Ollerton,
Nottinghamshire
- Ruskin Junior School, Swindon
- St Mary’s CE VC Primary School, Bridport,
Dorset
- St Nicholas CE Primary School, Radstock, Bath
- Southam Primary School, Warwickshire
- Takeley Primary School, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
- Wheeler Primary School, Hull
While some of these schools are new to the Take One Picture
scheme, others have embedded using a painting as a stimulus
for cross-curricular teaching and learning into their
yearly planning. It enables schools to offer a broad and
balanced curriculum, teaching core subjects through the
arts. The scheme helps teachers deliver the DCSF
Primary National Strategy: Excellence and Enjoyment
and the objectives of the Government's Cultural
Offer for schools. It also aligns with the principles
of Personalised
Learning.
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