St. Mary’s Secondary School, Edenderry, Co. Offaly 2024

St. Mary's Secondary School, Edenderry, recently completed their Creative Engagement Project for 2024. A Visual Art group from Transition year in St. Mary’s have created a beautiful sculpture entitled ‘Brigid, Goddess and Saint’. Under the guidance of Miss Farrell,...

Millstreet Community School, Milstreet, Co. Cork 2024

Millstreet Community School Transition Year students created beautiful artwork for their Creative Engagement Project 2024. They worked so well under the direction of artist Tracy Sexton. Teacher: Sandra Moynihan Artist: Tracy...

Colaiste na Trocaire (Fainleog Campus), Rathkeale, Co. Limerick 2024

Colaiste na Trocaire (Fainleog Campus), Celebrating St Bridget Eco Art Creative Engagement Project, was designed to engage the students, mindfully and creatively, with gifts from the natural world. Each young person actively engaged with the process and shared...

Bandon Grammar School, Co. Cork 2024

Fifth/sixth year students from Bandon Grammar School worked with artist Shane O'Driscoll to create an exciting mural to give life to the bare concrete between the school and a new extension. The Creative Engagement Project 2024 not only taught them the skills needed...

Presentation Secondary School, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork 2024

Fifth year students from Presentation Secondary School, Mitchelstown created oil portraits and displayed them at an Art Exhibition for their Creative Engagement Project 2024. Teacher: Linda Evans Artist: Aine Andrews

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Coláiste Cois Life, Co. Átha Cliath 2019

Coláiste Cois Life, Co. Átha Cliath 2019

Students from Coláiste Cois Life created a number of illustrations for their Creative Engagement project 2019 Artist: Peter Donnelly Teacher: Paula Nic Oireachtaigh

Trinity Comprehensive Dublin 2019

Trinity Comprehensive Dublin 2019

Trinity Comprehensive, Ballymun Creative Engagement Project 2019 Circus Schools Project with artist Shane Holohan. https://vimeo.com/339964977

Recent News and Updates

Creative Engagement Applications 2019-20

Applications for Creative Engagement 2019-20 are now being accepted. Application Forms can be downloaded from this website and emailed to demotcarney@napd.ie. They can be found under Forms on the menu.

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Creative Engagement Expo 2019

Thanks to all students, teachers, artists and school communities who together made such a success of the 2018-19 Creative Engagement programme. The exhibition of the projects is scheduled for November 19. It will be held in the National Indoor Sports Arena,...

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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.