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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Coláiste Muire, Ennis 2017

Coláiste Muire, Ennis 2017

Coláiste Muire, Ennis, Co. Clare have started their Creative Engagement Project 2017. The area they are working in is felting. In the photos below the students are seen just getting to grips with the medium and investigating the feel of the wool and the materials. It...

Hansfield Educate Together Secondary School, Dublin 2017

Hansfield Educate Together Secondary School, Dublin 2017

The students in Hansfield Educate Together Secondary School, Dublin are working on their Creative Engagement Project 2017, creating an installation for display in the school using wood carving, pyrography and painting. Artist: Evelyn Broderick Teacher: Clare Blackwell...

St. Oliver’s Community College, Drogheda 2017

St. Oliver’s Community College, Drogheda 2017

St. Oliver's Community College, Drogheda, Co. Louth are currently working on a ceramic installation for their Creative Engagement Project 2017. The murmuration of birds will be hung in the schools new cafeteria/communal area. The installation aims to reflect the...

Meánscoil Iognáid Ris Naas CBS, 2017

Meánscoil Iognáid Ris Naas CBS, 2017

School: Meánscoil Iognáid Ris Naas CBS Teacher: Stacy Masterson Artist: Josephine Hardiman http://www.kildare.ie/josephinehardiman/Index.htm Craft: Calligraphy & Illustration Group: 5th year art students Project description: Josephine is a local artist based in...

Mercy Secondary School, Inchicore, Dublin 2017

Mercy Secondary School, Inchicore, Dublin 2017

The Creative Engagement 2017 Project from Mercy Secondary School, Inchicore is underway. The project is a collaborative project with the Home Economics teacher. They are making ceramic dishes inspired by different cultures. (Photo: Artist Mark Doran with the TY class)...

Loreto Community School, Milford, Co. Donegal 2017

Loreto Community School, Milford, Co. Donegal 2017

Students from Loreto Community School in Milford, Co.Donegal have been hard at work on their Creative Engagement Project 2017.  They have been building a large constellation with willow. The students are learning how to grow and work with willow while making a large...

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Lusk Community College 2015

Lusk Community College 2015

Art teacher Vita Ryan , artist Elanor Mc Caughey and the students of Lusk Community College continue their Creative Engagement project which involves self portraits in oils on concrete.  

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2015 Meanscoil Gharman

2015 Meanscoil Gharman

Art Teacher Danielle Kearns and artists and students of Meanscoil Gharman put finishing touches to their stained glass project.

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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.