St Michael’s Holy Faith Secondary School, Finglas 2023

St. Michael's Secondary School in Finglas have finished a beautiful Creative Engagement Project for 2023 talented Transition Year students worked with potter Pat Rafferty to create the the final Ceramic work about the essentiality of the Bees🐝 for...

St. Jarlath’s College, Tuam, Co. Galway 2023

St. Jarlath's College in Tuam have completed their Creative Engagement Project for 2023. One project was a clay tile project and the second was a felting project. They were visited by Mary Hanley on behalf of Creative Engagement in early May. Artist: Karena Ryan...

St. Aidans Community School, Tallaght 2023

St Aidans Community School Tallaght worked on a mosaic mural for their Creative Engagement Project 2023. This was a collaborative project between St. Ediths, and some of their Junior Cycle students. Artist: Dave West Teacher: Michelle Murphy

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Deerpark CBS, Cork 2019

Deerpark CBS, Cork 2019

Deerpark CBS, transition year students worked on a new school mural of LOCAL CORK HEROES for their Creative Engagement Project 2019. Artists: Alan Hurley and Kevin O'Brien Teacher: Lorraine Naughton

Midleton College, Midleton, Co. Cork 2019

Midleton College, Midleton, Co. Cork 2019

Midleton College's Creative Engagement project 2019 is 'Táim' animation which follows a trail of Art around Midleton. It was created by the second year art students. Artists: Lucia...

Carlow Institute of Further Education 2019

Carlow Institute of Further Education 2019

Carlow Institute of Further Education and Training, in association with the NAPD Creative Engagement Programme, were delighted to engage with three collaborative Artists:                      Bridget Flannery, John Busherand Elwira Bernaciak through three creative...

Limerick College of Further Education

Limerick College of Further Education

Limerick College of Further Education have finished their Creative Engagement Project 2019, Fashion Promotion. Artist: Owen Rafferty Teacher: Miia Satama

Recent News and Updates

Opportunities.

In the (separate) Creative Schools scheme, opportunities are available for Creative Associates and School Clusters. The first is that the Creative Schools scheme is hoping for a good spread of post primary schools to be involved in Creative Clusters Round 2.  The...

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Evaluation Forms: Please send in ….

Please send in Evaluation Forms when the project is complete. Do please send images of projects being done or by now completed. Please send in any  videos for our Vimeo Channel. Videos should be on average 2 minutes in length. The You Tube Channel unfortunately didn't...

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It is an arts-in-education programme.  This entails an artist or artists coming into the school to work with the students. A creative engagement happens when a local artist or  arts  group comes into the school and imparts their skills, knowledge and enthusiasm to the students.  This partnership has mutual benefits to both artist and school. Creative Engagement programme encompasses the arts in its broadest manifestation, from the visual arts to music, from theatre to dance and all the arts in between.

The Creative Engagement programme strives to encourage creativity, initiative and expression in our students and to complement curricular learning in the arts , heritage and culture.  NAPD envisions an education system energised through the arts and where creativity is a core activity in the post primary curriculum.   The NAPD Arts Culture and Heritage committee celebrates its twenty fourth anniversary this year 2023.  The Arts Culture and Heritage committee has been  administering the Creative Engagement programme in schools since 2005.