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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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...

Oatlands College, Dublin 2017

Oatlands College, Dublin 2017

Transition year students from Oatlands College worked with on a graffiti project with street artist Marcin Zapadowski for their Creative Engagement project this year, on the theme of positive mental health, the project was a great success. Artist: Marcin Zapadowski...

Balla Secondary School, Co. Mayo 2017

Balla Secondary School, Co. Mayo 2017

Balla Secondary School's Creative Engagement Project 2017 is an outdoor sculpture of a bear using recycled objects. Here are some images of the project completed by the Transition year class of 2016/2017 [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.