In partnership with Stories and Global Learning Focus on Jeannie Baker’s books: Where the Forest meets the Sea Window Belonging

© Crown Copyright 2013 These books are excellent starting points and provide hooks for discussion about our surroundings Jeannie Baker (1987) Where the Forest meets the Sea Walker Books ISBN The reflections of a young boy exploring a rain forest in Queensland. Evokes ideas about how the landscape was, is and might be. Jeannie Baker (2002) Window Walker Books ISBN The rural landscape becomes gradually urbanised as the countryside changes over the course of a lifetime to a city. Jeannie Baker (2004) Belonging Walker Books ISBN Changes showing the regeneration of an inner city area over time. Themes: Place, environmental change and sustainable development

© Crown Copyright 2013 Thinking about change … Discuss what you have read and relate to pupils’ own lives. What changes can you see through your window, or in your local area? Why are these changes happening? Speculate, then do some fieldwork and investigate the wider locality. Use ‘viewing frames’ to focus on a particular view. Using first hand experience – apply skills to develop empathy and speculate about ‘windows’ in other parts of the world.

© Crown Copyright 2013 Other ideas Create a 3D plan of the view from your window or local area using collage, inspired by Jeannie Baker’s illustrations. Use existing maps of the local area as the basis for a display and link to current images of key features. Use this as a starting point for teaching in subsequent years – identifying changes. Use past and present aerial images of a locality to identify change. Imagine and envision how your own locality might change. Create a series of pictures and words to tell the story. Map your school grounds or even just your playground and envision changes you would make. Collaborate with others in your class to create a 3D plan of what you would like it to look like. Present your ideas to governors and plan what you can achieve and how.

Use ‘view finders’ made from cardboard to frame views and draw what you see

Stained glass windows can be simply made – use pupils’ drawings as a starting point for composite pictures that can be traced onto perspex and coloured in with water –based glass paints. Work as a school to record views in your locality

© Crown Copyright 2013 What experiences link to this finished work? First hand experience of place, (fieldwork) Creative inspiration from a sense of place Using relevant skills, e.g. annotated sketching, digital imaging, collaboration Asking questions and critical thinking, e.g. Where is this place? What is this place like? Why is it like this? How is it changing? Learning new and relevant vocabulary Learning how to improve and sustain localities - ESDGC

© Crown Copyright 2013 Create your own ‘windows’ showing a snapshot in time; other panels can be added over time to record changes.