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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Coláiste Mhuirlinne/ Merlin College, Galway 2018

Coláiste Mhuirlinne/ Merlin College, Galway 2018

For their Creative Engagement Project 2018 Coláiste Mhuirlinne/ Merlin College have 12 first year students working on a creative writing program with a local author Dani Gill. They are running the course for seven weeks, and the students are going to produce a short...

ST. MARY’S SECONDARY SCHOOL, HOLY FAITH CONVENT, GLASNEVIN

ST. MARY’S SECONDARY SCHOOL, HOLY FAITH CONVENT, GLASNEVIN

St. Mary’s Secondary School’s Creative Engagement Project 2017 - STEAM CEP 'Models of Conceptual Change'. These photos reference their initial incubation workshop for their Project in THE LAB with Dr. Enda Carr and Artist Eleanor Phillips.   [gallery...

Christ Kings Girls’ Secondary School, Cork 2018

Christ Kings Girls’ Secondary School, Cork 2018

Christ Kings Girls' Secondary School Cork have their Creative Engagement Project 2018 well under way. They have done their plans and are now starting to paint onto the large boards. Their students are loving the work....

Portumna Community School, Galway 2018

Local G.A.A. Club provides inspiration for Portumna Community School’s production of their annual school show. On Thursday 14th of December, Portumna Community School hosted their annual show to a packed house and the audience were held spell bound from opening scene...

St. David’s CBS Artane 2018

St. David’s CBS Artane 2018

St. David's CBS Artane have finished their Creative Engagement Project 2018. It was a great success and the students really enjoyed it. Here are some photographs of the work.  

St. Aloysius School, Cork 2018

St. Aloysius School, Cork 2018

St. Aloysius School, Cork for their Creative Engagement Project 2018 have been working with Cork Artist Luke Sisk who has been working with the TY students making decorative wall tiles as part of a long term rejuvenation project for an outdoor area of their school....

Scoil Mhuire, Ennistymon 2018

Scoil Mhuire, Ennistymon 2018

Scoil Mhuire Secondary School, Ennistymon, Co. Clare have been working on some beautiful scarves for their Creative Engagement Project 2018. [gallery...

Mercy Secondary School, Inchicore 2018

Mercy Secondary School, Inchicore 2018

Mercy Secondary School Inchicore have been working hard on their Creative Engagement Project 2018. The weather has pushed out the finish date but they are nearly there.

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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.