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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Trinity Comprehensive School, Ballymun 2016

Trinity Comprehensive School, Ballymun 2016

Trinity Comprehensive's Creative Engagement Project is under way with art teacher Brian Cheevers and artist Fintan Taite. The photographs are from an Illustration workshop undertaken with Fintan.  

Beara Community School, Castletownbere 2016

Beara Community School, Castletownbere 2016

Beara Community School has got their Creative Engagement Project under way. The 2016 Creative Engagement project in Beara Community School has a number of elements to it including identifying inspirational people, using these people to make a mural and to...

Glenamaddy Community School 2016

Glenamaddy Community School 2016

The Transition Year students of Glenamaddy Community School worked with textiles artist Lynn Naughton from Roscommon.  Lynn visited the students in the art room for several workshops, teaching the students her specialised skills and then working alongside the students...

Mercy Secondary School, Inchicore 2016

Mercy Secondary School, Inchicore 2016

The title for this project is 'Ambition'. As we are a leading CFES school we are constantly talking about the future and career paths. The girls initially came up with images that reflected where they saw themselves in the future. We decided to use screen printing as...

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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.