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...

Portfolio

Creative Engagement ShowcaSE

Balla Secondary School, Co. Mayo 2017

Balla Secondary School, Co. Mayo 2017

Balla Secondary School's Creative Engagement Project 2017 is an outdoor sculpture of a bear using recycled objects. Here are some images of the project completed by the Transition year class of 2016/2017 [gallery...

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...

Recent News and Updates

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.