St. Fergal’s College, Rathdown, Co. Laois

Beginning in Sept 2025, our TYs began rehearsing for their school musical High School Musical Jr. This involved script reading, stage direction, singing and choreography. The progress and development of each student was so rewarding for them and staff, as can be seen...

St. Aidan’s Community School, Tallaght, Dublin 24

TY students participated in a full day stained glass workshop with the artist Bianca Divito. They learned about key techniques and how to safely use specialist tools. Each student designedand created an individual stained glass piece, developing their creativity,...

Magh Éne College, Co. Donegal

Celebrating Art, Culture and Community – Magh Éne Mural Project The Magh Éne Mural Creative Engagement Project was a collaborative, student-led initiative involving Transition Year and Fifth Year students in the design and creation of a large-scale mural reflecting...

Royal School Cavan

This Creative Engagement Project, Comic Strip Art, was a successful collaboration between a professional animator and students, focusing on the fundamentals of 2D visual storytelling. Under expert guidance, students moved beyond simple drawing to master character...

St. Kilians Community School, Bray, Co. Wicklow

For this Creative Engagement Project the school wanted to do something very inclusive so that all the transition year students would be able to create a piece of work for a group mural. They designated a classroom space that the mural would fit into and chose acrylic...

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Cavan Institute 2017

Cavan Institute 2017

Cavan Institute are nearing the finishing of their Creative Engagement Project for 2017. They are holding their end of year exhibition in the County Museum in Ballyjamesduff. It is opening on the 27th of April at 7pm.     [gallery...

Royal School, Cavan 2017

Royal School, Cavan 2017

The students at Royal School, Cavan have their 2017 Creative Engagement Project underway. Some photographs of their progress here including the main photograph of the Transition Year students with Catriona O'Reilly, Cavan Arts Officer admiring the wooden carvings....

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...

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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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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.