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

Rice College, Ennis, Co. Clare 2024

Rice College, Ennis Transition Year students created a beautiful mural with local Artist Rachel McManus Art Teacher: Clara Ryan Artist: Rachel McManus

St. Brigid’s Secondary School, Killarney, Co. Kerry 2024

St. Brigid's Secondary School Transition year and 5th year students hosted an art exhibition in Killarney to share their 2024 Creative Engagement Project 'Personal Reflections'. Teachers: Alice Quilter & Fiona Archibald Artist: Tracy Sexton

St Jarlath’s College, Tuam, Co. Galway 2024

First year students in St Jarlath's College in Tuam enjoyed a felting workshop with artist Karena Ryan. Beautiful results. Teacher: Therese Kenny Artist: Karena Ryan

Intermediate School Killorglin, Co. Kerry 2024

Transition Year students from the Intermediate School Killorglin, Co. Kerry have completed their Lino printing Creative Engagement Project 2024. Teacher: Rebekah Power Artist: Rochelle...

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St. Aloysius School, Cork 2018

St. Aloysius School, Cork 2018

St. Aloysius School, Cork for their Creative Engagement Project 2018 have been working with Cork Artist Luke Sisk who has been working with the TY students making decorative wall tiles as part of a long term rejuvenation project for an outdoor area of their school....

Scoil Mhuire, Ennistymon 2018

Scoil Mhuire, Ennistymon 2018

Scoil Mhuire Secondary School, Ennistymon, Co. Clare have been working on some beautiful scarves for their Creative Engagement Project 2018. [gallery...

Mercy Secondary School, Inchicore 2018

Mercy Secondary School, Inchicore 2018

Mercy Secondary School Inchicore have been working hard on their Creative Engagement Project 2018. The weather has pushed out the finish date but they are nearly there.

Coláiste Bhaile Chláir, Co na Gaillimhe 2017

Coláiste Bhaile Chláir, Co na Gaillimhe 2017

5th Year students of Coláiste Bhaile Chláir, worked with artist Maeve Gallagher on a contemporary ceramics sculpture for their Creative Engagement Project 2017. The project is based on birds as a symbol of the students coming together in school, flying in a flock...

St. Michaels Holy Faith Secondary School, Finglas 2017

St. Michaels Holy Faith Secondary School, Finglas 2017

St. Michael's Holy Faith Secondary School in Finglas have finished their beautiful Creative Engagement Project 2017 Progress so far on St. Michaels Holy Faith Secondary School, Finglas 2017 Creative Engagment Project art garden known as...

Coláiste Bríde Presentation Secondary School, Clondalkin 2017

Coláiste Bríde Presentation Secondary School, Creative Engagement Project 2017 'Coming to Life with Cartoon Saloon & Ballet Ireland'. The project was a collaboration focused on the skills of life drawing and animation with the TY and 5th year students of Colaiste...

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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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Lucan Community College 2015

Lucan Community College 2015

Coordinator Sean Morrissey and Lucan Community College link their Creative Engagement programme to their colourful Arts Week.  The Arts Week included painting, music production, pupperty, thread...

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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.