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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Curragh Post Primary School, Co. Kildare 2019

Curragh Post Primary School, Co. Kildare 2019

Curragh Post Primary School, Co. Kildare have their Creative Engagement Project 2019 are delighted with how it went. The following are images of the early stages of project:  

Cork Educate Together Secondary School, 2019

Cork Educate Together Secondary School, 2019

First year students from Cork Educate Together Secondary School have their Creative Engagement Project 2019 completed. 'Future Spaces' is all about engaging 20 first year students in considering how we can create vibrant cities that are diverse places where people...

De La Salle College, Waterford 2019

De La Salle College, Waterford 2019

De La Salle College in Waterford took on 'Environmental Art, No Paint _No Panic' for their Creative Engagement Project 2019. Transition year art students created an art mural. They decided to make their work eco friendly, and used only water to create their design as...

Gaelcholáiste Charraig Uí Leighin 2019

Gaelcholáiste Charraig Uí Leighin 2019

Gaelcholáiste Charraig Uí Leighin Creative Engagement Project 2019 The transition year students of Gealcholáiste Charraig Uí Leighin participated in 2 lino reduction workshops facilitated by Corkprintmakers. Thar 2 seachtain thaispeáin na ealaíntóirí as...

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...

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School visits and please send in images.

Where possible, members of the NAPD Arts Heritage Culture committee are visiting schools currently to meet teachers artists and students to support the work.  The committee members who are visiting the schools  are usually from that area of the country.  Schools will...

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Nollaig Shona dhíbh

Nollaig shona dhíbh . Have a great holiday and a powerful New Year. From all at the NAPD Arts Culture and Heritage Committee.

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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.