St. Fergal’s College, Rathdown, Co. Laois

Beginning in Sept 2025, our TYs began rehearsing for their school musical High School Musical Jr. This involved script reading, stage direction, singing and choreography. The progress and development of each student was so rewarding for them and staff, as can be seen...

St. Aidan’s Community School, Tallaght, Dublin 24

TY students participated in a full day stained glass workshop with the artist Bianca Divito. They learned about key techniques and how to safely use specialist tools. Each student designedand created an individual stained glass piece, developing their creativity,...

Magh Éne College, Co. Donegal

Celebrating Art, Culture and Community – Magh Éne Mural Project The Magh Éne Mural Creative Engagement Project was a collaborative, student-led initiative involving Transition Year and Fifth Year students in the design and creation of a large-scale mural reflecting...

Royal School Cavan

This Creative Engagement Project, Comic Strip Art, was a successful collaboration between a professional animator and students, focusing on the fundamentals of 2D visual storytelling. Under expert guidance, students moved beyond simple drawing to master character...

St. Kilians Community School, Bray, Co. Wicklow

For this Creative Engagement Project the school wanted to do something very inclusive so that all the transition year students would be able to create a piece of work for a group mural. They designated a classroom space that the mural would fit into and chose acrylic...

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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

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.