Three ITE students collaborated during their placement
to devise a scheme of work based on Rubens’s
painting of his home 'Het Steen'. All specialists
in Early Years, they produced a list of questions
to engage children under the age of five in looking
closely at the image.
Key questions to engage Foundation-aged children:
What can you see in the picture?
Where can you see people in the picture? What are
they doing?
Who are the people on the cart? Where do you think
they are going?
Where do you think they have come from?
Who might live in the big house? Have they got any
neighbours?
Do you think that the people in the cart know the
people in the house?
What do you think the man in the front with
the gun is doing? What position is he in? Why
do you think the dog is there?
Can you see any water in the picture?
Can you see the sun?
What colours can you see? (Do they suggest
a season?)
What sounds might you hear in this picture?
If you could go into this painting, where
would you go and what would you do?
For lesson sequences written by ITE students, choose from the Subject Focus list:
