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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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...

Drimnagh Castle CBS, Dublin 2017

Drimnagh Castle CBS, Dublin 2017

The Drimnagh Castle CBS Creative Engagement 2017 Project is well underway. They have just completed a two day workshop with ceramic artist Heather Buchanan. TY's have collaborated with Art and Environmental Studies to design Insect Hotels in preparation for their...

Creative Engagement in IMMA

Creative Engagement in IMMA

Creative Engagement in IMMA had the most projects and the most visitors of any Creative Engagement exhibition to date.  There was great enthusiasm and engagement at the exhibition and the beauty of  the Royal Hospital Kilmainham added to the atmosphere.  Some schools...

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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.