{"id":5085,"date":"2019-02-14T15:40:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T15:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.organicarts.org.uk\/projects\/?p=5085"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:40:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T15:40:25","slug":"my-story-the-pelican-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.organicarts.org.uk\/projects\/posts\/my-story-the-pelican-project\/","title":{"rendered":"My Story: The Pelican Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>At The Pelican Project we have adopted a \u2018sensory approach\u2019 using materials, environments, soundscapes or ideas designed to entice young disabled people and their parents\/carers into stimulating creative play that engages the senses and offers capacity for open-ended discovery. From birth babies learn about their environment through their senses. They find out what things are and how they work by seeing, touching and listening to them. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.organicarts.org.uk\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pelican1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.organicarts.org.uk\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pelican1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.organicarts.org.uk\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pelican1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.organicarts.org.uk\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pelican1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.organicarts.org.uk\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pelican1-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.organicarts.org.uk\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pelican1-332x249.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> Our sessions with Organic Arts have proved an ideal tool for people with  a young developmental age to explore the world in playful sensory  engagement. &#8216;Sensory Learners&#8217; at all stages of development can relish  sensory experience at the farm as a rich resource for learning and  creativity. It is also an alternative, natural environment that presents  an opportunity for our young people and their carers to safely  experience a part of their community that they otherwise have no access  to. Kevin\u2019s delivery of sessions are informal yet focused, maintaining  high expectations of individuals ability whilst creating a fun and  playful atmosphere. His activities are designed to create cross-ability  collaboration and develop social skills as well as practical ones <\/p><cite> <br>Charlie Robinson , Pelican Project<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At The Pelican Project we have adopted a \u2018sensory approach\u2019 using materials, environments, soundscapes or ideas designed to entice young disabled people and their parents\/carers into stimulating creative play that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,5,1189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","category-education","category-my-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organicarts.org.uk\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organicarts.org.uk\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organicarts.org.uk\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organicarts.org.uk\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organicarts.org.uk\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.organicarts.org.uk\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5087,"href":"https:\/\/www.organicarts.org.uk\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085\/revisions\/5087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organicarts.org.uk\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organicarts.org.uk\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organicarts.org.uk\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organicarts.org.uk\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}