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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OATLANDS COLLEGE, DUBLIN 2018

OATLANDS COLLEGE, DUBLIN 2018

Artist and Printmaker Elaine leader working with 2nd yrs at Oatlands College as part of the Creative Engagement Project 2018 Teacher: Oonagh O Toole

Salesian Secondary College, Pallaskenry, Co. Limerick 2018

Salesian Secondary College, Pallaskenry, Co. Limerick 2018

Salesian Secondary College, Pallaskenry's First Year art students immensely enjoyed the Creative Engagement Project 2018 and were more than a little bit bereft when their external artist Nuala O' Sullivan had to bid them goodbye! The project enabled them to gain both...

St. Aloysius Girls Secondary School, Cork 2018

St. Aloysius Girls Secondary School, Cork 2018

St. Aloysius Girls Secondary School, Cork and their Creative Engagement Project 2018: The TY students at St.Als in Cork City have been working with local Ceramics artist Luke Sisk. The students are creating a selection of tiles, some of which are based on old design...

Drimnagh Castle Secondary School, Dublin 2018

Drimnagh Castle Secondary School, Dublin 2018

Drimnagh Castle Secondary School continue their Creative Engagement Project 2018  learning how to make paper.  We can see some of the processes they have learned in the photos below. [gallery...

Templemore College of Further Education, Co. Tipperary 2018

Templemore College of Further Education, Co. Tipperary 2018

Templemore College of Further Education, Templemore, Co. Tipperary have  almost completed their Creative Engagement Project 2018. It has been a huge success this year. As always Alan Brown provided their students with a highly enjoyable experience and they were...

Coláiste Muire, Co. Clare 2018

Coláiste Muire, Co. Clare 2018

Coláiste Muire, Ennis, Co. Clare have started their Creative Engagement Project 2018: Pinocchio. Project workshops which got underway in March and are ongoing. The project is progressing really well and the puppets are being brought from concept to reality! [gallery...

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Creative Engagement in IMMA

Creative Engagement in IMMA

Creative Engagement in IMMA had the most projects and the most visitors of any Creative Engagement exhibition to date.  There was great enthusiasm and engagement at the exhibition and the beauty of  the Royal Hospital Kilmainham added to the atmosphere.  Some schools...

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Borrisokane Community College, 2016

Borrisokane Community College, 2016

Watch out for Borrisokane Community College, 2016 Creative Engagement Project on TG4 - Guth na hEireann, Nuacht 25th September A Heritage project was established in the school in 2015. Students are currently making wooden bilingual signs to mark and remember all the...

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Welcome Back, CE Exhibition and Application Form for 2016-17

Welcome back to the school year. Everyone is invited to visit the Creative Engagement exhibition in IMMA, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, October 11 2016. Please put it into your diary and advise your Principal and Deputy Principal of the exhibition as it is on a...

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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.