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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St Brendan’s Community School 2015.

St Brendan’s Community School 2015.

Teachers Yvonne Claffey, Sharon Mc Connell and the students of St. Brendan's Community School Birr, produce  Creative Engagement costume designs inspired by the Heritage Town of Birr.

St Joseph’s Lucan 2015

St Joseph’s Lucan 2015

Art teacher Niamh Garvey and students of St Joseph' s Lucan initiate their Sonic Boom project.  More to follow.

Royal Cavan 2015

Royal Cavan 2015

The Royal Cavan hard at work on their Creative Engagement project

Recent News and Updates

Arts in Education Charter

Arts in Education Charter

We are delighted to have seen the launch of the Arts in Education Charter by the Departments of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht and Department of Education and Skills on January 4.  The Creative Engagement projects are a manifestation of the the arts- in- education in...

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Unveiling of the Pobalscoil Chorcha Dhuibhne project

Unveiling of the Pobalscoil Chorcha Dhuibhne project

Unveiling of the Pobalscoil Chorcha Dhuibhne project - April 2013 Pictured from left to right:  Mr. Machachamise First Secretary to the Ambassador of Lesotho to Ireland. Maree Hensey, Artist. Mr Gerry Gervin Irish Ambassador to Lesotho, Brenda Friel, Art...

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Creative Engagement Exhibition

Creative Engagement Exhibition

Minister Jimmy Deenihan pictured  at the Creative Engagement exhibition in Collins Barracks  October 11 2012. The second national exhibition of Creative Engagement NAPD will be held in The National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin October, 5 2013

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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.