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Teacher Notes - Creative Activities
The following sources are suggested as possible stimuli for encouraging creative work related to the 'countryside'.
Painting/Drawing
The 'Impressionist' painters provide a rich resource since their preference was for painting outdoor scenes and returning to paint them at different times of day and different seasons. Some suggestions are listed below.
Paintings can be used to encourage pupils drawing their own paintings/pastel drawing, to think about the different ways textures/shapes can be produced and the different 'styles' of art. Children can use paints or pastels to reproduce the photographs.
| Paul Gauguin | - "Harvest" and "Le Pouldu" - Tate Gallery |
| John Constable | -
"The Hay Wain" - National Gallery - "Dedham from Langham" |
| Raoul Dupy | - "The Harvest" - Tate Gallery |
| Thomas Gainsborough | - "Landscape with Gypsies" - Tate Gallery |
| Paul Cézanne | - "Hillside in Provence" - National Gallery |
| Vincent Van Gogh | -
"A Cornfield with Cypresses" - "Wheatfield with Crows" |
| Monet | -
"The Road from Chailly" - "Poplars on the Banks of the Epie" |
Music
Some suggestions for musical stimulus:
| Delius | -
"Song of Summer" - "Brigg Fair" |
| Beethoven | - "Pastoral Symphony (No 6)" |
| Smetana | - "Ma Vlast" |
| Grieg | - "Morning" (from Peer Gynt) |
| Elgar | - "Chanson du Matin" |
| Vaughan Williams | -
"The Lark Ascending" - "Fantâsia on Greensleeves" - "Pastoral Symphony" - "English Folk Song Suite" |
| Gustav Holst | - "Suite for Military Band in E Flat" |
| Mahler | - "1st Symphony" |
Poetry
A short list of well know poems about the countryside is provided below, together with some anthologies which have many lesser known examples. These, together with other resources in the pack, can provide a stimulus and encouragement to pupils to write their own countryside poem.
| Thomas Hardy | - "The Darkling Thrush" |
| John Keats | - "To Autumn" |
| John Clare | -
"Summer Evening" - "November" |
| Alexander Pope | - "Unwilling Country Life" |
| Thomas Hood | - "Our Village - By a Villager" |
| John Mansfield | - "Reynard the Fox" |
| Robert Frost | - "Stopping by Woods" |
Anthologies:
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Rhyme & Reason - Anthology
edited by Raymond O'Malley and Denys Thompson
printed by Chatto and Windus
whole section on Country Life -
The Rattle Bag - Anthology
edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes
Faber & Faber -
Of Caterpillars, Cats and Cattle
poems about animals
Ann Harvey
Puffin -
What on Earth….?
poems with conservation themes
edited by Judith Nichols
Faber & Faber -
Puffin Book of Verse
compiled by Eleanor Graham
Puffin