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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Rockford Manor Secondary School, Dublin 2018

Rockford Manor Secondary School, Dublin 2018

Rockford Manor Secondary School, Blackrock and have two Creative Engagement Projects 2018 on the go, Stained Glass and Crochet. The Transition year Art Class in Rockford Manor have completed 17 stained glass birds, quite an achievement.  It certainly was a different...

Cork Educate Together 2018

Cork Educate Together 2018

Cork Educate Together students have been working on their Creative Engagement 2018 Project - CE Ocean Plastics Project - to explore the ways in which plastic affects the ocean and the environment. They are going to do a beach clean in Ballycroneen and incorporate some...

Blakestown Community School, Blanchardstown 2018

Blakestown Community School, Blanchardstown 2018

Blakestown Community School, have their Creative Engagement 2018 Project well underway. "Using felt to raise awareness about Biodiversity as a way to look after our world." They have visited the Botanic Gardens for research and have had their first session in felting...

Loreto Community School, Co. Donegal 2018

Loreto Community School, Co. Donegal 2018

Loreto Community School, Milford, have undertaken creating wild honey bee huts with Boomtree Bees for their 2018 Creative Engagement Project. 10 bee hives were built by students in 2nd year and LCA. Students will now place them in the school grounds and local...

Coláiste Mhuirlinne/ Merlin College, Galway 2018

Coláiste Mhuirlinne/ Merlin College, Galway 2018

For their Creative Engagement Project 2018 Coláiste Mhuirlinne/ Merlin College have 12 first year students working on a creative writing program with a local author Dani Gill. They are running the course for seven weeks, and the students are going to produce a short...

ST. MARY’S SECONDARY SCHOOL, HOLY FAITH CONVENT, GLASNEVIN

ST. MARY’S SECONDARY SCHOOL, HOLY FAITH CONVENT, GLASNEVIN

St. Mary’s Secondary School’s Creative Engagement Project 2017 - STEAM CEP 'Models of Conceptual Change'. These photos reference their initial incubation workshop for their Project in THE LAB with Dr. Enda Carr and Artist Eleanor Phillips.   [gallery...

Christ Kings Girls’ Secondary School, Cork 2018

Christ Kings Girls’ Secondary School, Cork 2018

Christ Kings Girls' Secondary School Cork have their Creative Engagement Project 2018 well under way. They have done their plans and are now starting to paint onto the large boards. Their students are loving the work....

Recent News and Updates

Change of Exhibition date

The  Collins Barracks Creative Engagement exhibition date has been changed from October 10 to October 3. We hope all exhibitors will be able to come on October 3. Application forms are on the web site under Forms. Call Dermot 0862779924 for further information....

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Coláiste Bríde Clondalkin 2015

Coláiste Bríde Clondalkin 2015

Creative Engagement  2015 : Dr Elaine Sherwin Scoil Bríde Clondalkin.(teacher) The students marked the centenary of James Joyce's Dubliners with the assistance of Joycean expert James Quinn and graphic artist Jonathan Casey. Students studied Joyce's short stories and...

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creative engagemet

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.