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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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....

Portumna Community School, Galway 2018

Local G.A.A. Club provides inspiration for Portumna Community School’s production of their annual school show. On Thursday 14th of December, Portumna Community School hosted their annual show to a packed house and the audience were held spell bound from opening scene...

St. David’s CBS Artane 2018

St. David’s CBS Artane 2018

St. David's CBS Artane have finished their Creative Engagement Project 2018. It was a great success and the students really enjoyed it. Here are some photographs of the work.  

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.

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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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.