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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...
CBS Secondary School, Charleville 2017
The Transition Year students at CBS Charleville, Co. Cork are in full rehearsal for their Creative Engagement Project 2017 play. The show will be performed on Wednesday 29th, Thursday 30th and Friday 31st in The Schoolyard Theatre. [gallery...
Crana College, Buncrana, Co. Donegal 2017
Crana College, Buncrana, Co. Donegal 2017 Creative Engagement Project 2017 is concentrating on comic creations. " The comic workshop course in Crana College was definitely one to remember. The young people excelled in each stage, from character design to script...
De La Salle College, Waterford 2017
Second years in De La Salle College, Waterford had a fantastic time with Stephanie Hodgers researching and creating lino prints for their Creative Engagement Project 2017. The school is putting them on permanent display as the project is based on the school founder...
Presentation Secondary School, Warrenmount 2017
5th year students of Presentation Secondary School, Warrenmount, Dublin 8, have been working with Debora Ando concentrating on the art of print for their Creative Engagement Project 2017. The students have been working on the theme of medieval Dublin and have made...
Coláiste Muire, Ennis 2017
Coláiste Muire, Ennis, Co. Clare have started their Creative Engagement Project 2017. The area they are working in is felting. In the photos below the students are seen just getting to grips with the medium and investigating the feel of the wool and the materials. It...
Hansfield Educate Together Secondary School, Dublin 2017
The students in Hansfield Educate Together Secondary School, Dublin are working on their Creative Engagement Project 2017, creating an installation for display in the school using wood carving, pyrography and painting. Artist: Evelyn Broderick Teacher: Clare Blackwell...
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Royal Cavan 2015
The Royal Cavan hard at work on their Creative Engagement project
St. Mary’s Arklow 2015
Ian Carter and the students of St Mary's Arklow working on the design brief.
Malahide Community School 2015
Art Teacher Michelle Jackson's students in Malahide Community School working on their project.
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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.