De La Salle College, Co. Waterford

The Land Woven in Wool This project involved students collaborating with a professional artist to create felted landscape artworks. Throughout the residency, students developed and applied a range of felting techniques, including wet felting, needle felting, and...

Colaiste Choilm, Ballincollig, Co. Cork

Bród This is a textiles project created in collaboration with felt artist Emily Thompson. Students designed and created a wall hanging which will be installed permanently in our school. The piece is called Bród and is a celebration of what it means to be a student in...

St. Colmans Community College, Midleton, Co. Cork

TY Creative Engagement Art Project: The Cyanotype Kite Installation on Diversity and Inclusivity Our Transition Year students worked on an exciting creative collaboration centered on the themes of Diversity and Inclusion. Under the guidance of visiting artist Billy...

St. Brendan’s Community School, Birr, Co. Offaly

This Creative Engagement Project explored the themes of identity and belonging through painting and mixed media with Transition Year students. Students were encouraged to reflect on their personal experiences, interests, memories, and connections to their community...

Ardscoil na Mara Secondary School, Tramore, Co. Waterford

Miss Driver and Students from Ardscoil na Mara Secondary School, Tramore, Co. Waterford enjoyed their experience of working with Artist Declan O Meara on a mixture of Landscapes from their local environment and Self Portraits completed in Oil Pastels. The finished...

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Presentation Secondary School, Warrenmount, Dublin 2019

Presentation Secondary School, Warrenmount, Dublin 2019

Presentation Secondary School, Warrenmount have been working with artist Patricia Rafferty to create their 2019 Creative Engagement Project. The students researched the origins of the school and the Presentation Order. They decided to do a sculpture of the crest and...

Presentation Secondary School, Mitchelstown 2019

Presentation Secondary School, Mitchelstown 2019

Presentation Secondary School, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork have now completed their Creative Engagement Project 2019. As part of the project, transition year students were given the opportunity to work with professional artist Sean Corcoran from the ‘The Art Hand’ company...

Colaiste Muire, Ennis, Co. Clare 2019

Colaiste Muire, Ennis, Co. Clare 2019

Coláiste Muire, Ennis's Creative Engagement Project 2019 is in full swing. The mosaic artwork is taking inspiration from the 'Coast'.     [gallery...

Lusk Community College, Dublin 2019

Lusk Community College, Dublin 2019

As part of their Creative Engagement Project 2019 this year Lusk Community College worked on a really exciting project with the artist Anthony Haughey. The focus of their project this year was photography and activism....

Drimnagh Castle Secondary School, Dublin 2019

Drimnagh Castle Secondary School, Dublin 2019

The Drimnagh Castle Secondary School Creative Engagement Project 2019 was made to celebrate Wellbeing Week in their school. This piece of art work aims to send a clear message to others that being yourself is the most important thing. [gallery...

Fingal Community College, Swords 2018

Fingal Community College, Swords 2018

Fingal Community College are delighted with their Creative Engagement Project 2018 The photographs show the before and after of the Project created with artists Dave West and Martin Hughes and the TY class. Artists:...

Creative Engagement 2018-19 underway.

Creative Engagement 2018-19 underway.

There were over 100 applications for Creative Engagement this year. New Minister Joe Mc Hugh TD at NAPD Conference on his first day as Minister.. Meantime the results of the applications for 2018-19 will be conveyed to schools from November 4.

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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.