Our local environment

St Nicholas CE Primary School

All year groups at St Nicholas CE Primary School, Bath, joined in with the project. As the school is surrounded by countryside, the children compared the landscape in Rubens's painting with their own. Year 6 pupils (10- to 11-year-olds) took digital photographs of their local environment to use as primary sources for painting small watercolours. Pencil sketches helped them concentrate on detail as well as composition.