St Michael’s Holy Faith Secondary School, Finglas 2023

St. Michael's Secondary School in Finglas have finished a beautiful Creative Engagement Project for 2023 talented Transition Year students worked with potter Pat Rafferty to create the the final Ceramic work about the essentiality of the Bees🐝 for...

St. Jarlath’s College, Tuam, Co. Galway 2023

St. Jarlath's College in Tuam have completed their Creative Engagement Project for 2023. One project was a clay tile project and the second was a felting project. They were visited by Mary Hanley on behalf of Creative Engagement in early May. Artist: Karena Ryan...

St. Aidans Community School, Tallaght 2023

St Aidans Community School Tallaght worked on a mosaic mural for their Creative Engagement Project 2023. This was a collaborative project between St. Ediths, and some of their Junior Cycle students. Artist: Dave West Teacher: Michelle Murphy

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Media Department, Limerick College of Further Education 2017

Media Department, Limerick College of Further Education 2017

LCFE Level 6 Advanced TV/Film Production (ATVX) class following the recent 'Creative Engagement' Showcase & Screening event having exhibited a short film production entitled 'Never Have I ever' produced under the NAPD Creative Engagement mentorship award scheme...

Donabate Community College, Dublin 2017

Donabate Community College, Dublin 2017

We have beautiful results from Donabate Community College's Creative Engagement Project 2017. The Aim of the project is to create a ceramic totem pole inspired by interests of the students, the...

Bandon Grammar

Bandon Grammar

Bandon Grammar School are fortunate to have Luke Sisk as their Artist in Residence for Creative Engagements this year. Luke Sisk is a full time professional ceramic and glass artist. 10 lucky transition year students are currently halfway through their glass casting...

Cork Educate Together Secondary, 2017

Cork Educate Together Secondary, 2017

Cork Educate Together Secondary School is in the first year of existence, having opened in August 2016. It is the very first Educate Together Secondary School to be opened in the South of Ireland. Our First-Year students are on a ten-week subject rotation of art. The...

Assumption Secondary School,  Walkinstown, Dublin 2017

Assumption Secondary School, Walkinstown, Dublin 2017

Assumption Secondary School, Walkinstown have finished their Creative Engagement Ceramic Project. Every person in the school was involved in making a ceramic piece including students, every staff member... teachers, caretaker, board of management... [gallery...

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St. Joseph’s College Lucan 2015

St. Joseph’s College Lucan 2015

Art teacher Niamh Garvey and Ceramic artist Niamh Synnott collaborate with the students of St Joseph's College Lucan . Displayed on this post are elements of their design process from...

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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.