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Bandon Grammar
Bandon Grammar School are fortunate to have Luke Sisk as their Artist in Residence for Creative Engagements this year. Luke Sisk is a full time professional ceramic and glass artist. 10 lucky transition year students are currently halfway through their glass casting...
Cork Educate Together Secondary, 2017
Cork Educate Together Secondary School is in the first year of existence, having opened in August 2016. It is the very first Educate Together Secondary School to be opened in the South of Ireland. Our First-Year students are on a ten-week subject rotation of art. The...
Assumption Secondary School, Walkinstown, Dublin 2017
Assumption Secondary School, Walkinstown have finished their Creative Engagement Ceramic Project. Every person in the school was involved in making a ceramic piece including students, every staff member... teachers, caretaker, board of management... [gallery...
Coolmine Community School, Clonsilla, Dublin 2017
Coolmine Community School Creative Engagement Project 2017
Bremore Educate Together Secondary School, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin 2017
Stained Glass Window Project: Beginning First year students from Bremore Educate Together Secondary School Balbriggan worked with glass artist Emer O’Donnell to develop a collaborative work in stained glass which will be installed in our new school building to...
The Fashion Department, Limerick College of Further Education 2017
Fashion Department Creative Engagement 17 Annette Malone and Fashion Department students produced a collection of costumes based on theme “Under the Sea”. These costumes are currently under post production and being photographed to create a short animation by another...
Blackwater Community School, Lismore, Co. Waterford 2017
Blackwater CS have had landscape artist Eilis O’Tool, introduce herself and her craft to first year students for six weeks. These sessions included a research trip in our local environment where students took photos on their phones for inspiration, learning the...
Coláiste Bhaile Chláir, Claregalway, Co. Galway 2017
Creativity and excitement has filled the Art room over the last few months as the 5th year Coláiste Bhaile Chláir Art students develop new skills and techniques with local Ceramics artist Maeve Gallagher, through the Creative Engagement Programme. The students have...
Inver College, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan 2017
The Creative Engagement Project 2017 with the 1st years in Inver College is going really well, they are near the end of it now. The project was inspired by Patrick Kavanagh's poem "Spraying the Potatoes". They are going to unveil the Textile Art Piece "Spraying the...
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2015 Meanscoil Gharman
Art Teacher Danielle Kearns and artists and students of Meanscoil Gharman put finishing touches to their stained glass project.
2015 Glenamaddy Community School
Art Teacher Helena Cuniffe, Mary Nihill President NAPD, Brendan Flynn of the NAPD Arts and Culture committee and the students of Glanamaddy Community School at the...
Mount Sackville 2015
Mount Sackville students take to the pages....project underway
creative engagemet
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.