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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Stratford College, Rathgar, Dublin 2019

Stratford College, Rathgar, Dublin 2019

Stratford College's transition year students created a film as their Creative Engagement Project 2019. "We were lucky enough to have Cal McGhee come in to teach us about aspects of production too, and we were told about how to write a script. This was greatly helpful...

St Joseph’s Secondary School, Rush, Co. Dublin 2019

St Joseph’s Secondary School, Rush, Co. Dublin 2019

St Josephs Secondary School's Creative Engagement Project 2019: Music Song Writing and Production Workshop provided by the Walton's New School of Music. The transition year students had a wonderful day of creating music, performing and producing an original song....

CBS Synge Street, Dublin 2019

CBS Synge Street, Dublin 2019

CBS Synge Street's Creative Engagement Project 2019 21 students from Transition Year took part in the 2019 project 'Express yourself through process: Painting canvas'. Artist: Sean O'Rourke Teacher: M. Wright...

St. Bricín’s College, Belturbet, Co. Cavan 2019

St. Bricín’s College, Belturbet, Co. Cavan 2019

St. Bricín's Creative Engagement Project 2019 'Hello, is anybody out there? ' 12 students from 5th and 6th year took part in this wood carving project. The theme of 'Positive mental health' was chosen. The students learned how to generate ideas for the symbolism of...

Hamilton High School, Bandon, Co. Cork 2019

Hamilton High School, Bandon, Co. Cork 2019

Hamilton High School Creative Engagement Project 2019 was created by 'The Prometheans', a group of 30 students from first to fifth year. The group have been very busy creating 1. Student Awards for Creativity, 2. A mini School Library, 3. a student designed website...

Gaelcholáiste an Chláir, Inis 2019

Gaelcholáiste an Chláir, Inis 2019

‘Beatha Abhann na hInse – River Life of Ennis’ are three stained glass lightboxes created by Transition Year Students from Gaelcholáiste an Chláir, Inis. TYs worked on the cross-curricular project with Art Teacher Marie Connole, Artist Nathalie El Baba and Technology...

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.