{"id":15542,"date":"2023-05-04T08:16:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T07:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/?p=15542"},"modified":"2023-05-04T08:16:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T07:16:05","slug":"manor-green-primary-academy-pupils-get-creative-with-fabric-lenny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/manor-green-primary-academy-pupils-get-creative-with-fabric-lenny\/","title":{"rendered":"Manor Green Primary Academy pupils get creative with Fabric Lenny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/denton-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/denton-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/denton-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/denton-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/denton-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/denton.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Pupils at Manor Green Primary Academy in Denton recently had the opportunity to get creative with renowned Northern artist Fabric Lenny.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Slater, who goes by the name Fabric Lenny, creates a wide range of pieces ranging from sculpture and digital work to public art projects and collaborative schemes with young children.<\/p>\n<p>Fabric Lenny visited the school and shared some of his work with Year 3 pupils, who expressed they were \u2018impressed\u2019 and \u2018inspired\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Over a five week period, he taught the pupils how to use various skills within their artwork, from continuous line drawings to digital art.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the five weeks, the year group, split into two groups, had created a final piece which was a combination of all the work they had created. <\/p>\n<p>The project formed part of the year group\u2019s PSHE learning, as they completed a booklet alongside the project entitled \u2018Staying Safe\u2019 as part of the Arts Award Discover certificate by the Tameside Council Cultural Services and Tameside Council Community Safety Department. <\/p>\n<p>The Arts Award project supports individual creative development by working with young people of all interests, ages and abilities.  <\/p>\n<p>Thomas Keegan, Year 3 teacher at Manor Green Primary Academy, said: \u201cThe experience provided by Fabric Lenny was an invaluable experience for all pupils. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey all loved his weekly sessions, and he really encouraged an overall love of art; everybody at Manor Green is extremely proud of their learning.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pupils at Manor Green Primary Academy in Denton recently had the opportunity to get creative with renowned Northern artist Fabric Lenny. Paul Slater, who goes by the name Fabric Lenny, creates a wide range of pieces ranging from sculpture and digital work to public art projects and collaborative schemes with young children. Fabric Lenny visited &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,173,56,4,43,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-art-craft","category-arts","category-educational-event","category-news","category-primary-schools","category-pshe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15544,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15542\/revisions\/15544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}