Catherine McAuley School, Limerick

Catherine McAuley School's Creative Engagement Project, "Brighter Together", was developed to enhance the school environment through a calm, welcoming mural featuring simple shapes and fauna. The design was selected with careful consideration of our special school...

St. Mary’s High School, Midleton, Co. Cork

The Art of Printmaking. This Creative Engagement project involved 5th Year Art students working with West Cork printmaker Sandie Hicks in a hands-on etching workshop inspired by observational landscape drawing. Students explored printmaking techniques, creative...

Midleton CBS Secondary School, Co. Cork

Battle of the Bands. Midleton CBS's project involved the development and production of a whole-school musical that promoted creativity, wellbeing and student engagement through the performing arts. Students from various year groups participated in all aspects of the...

St. Fergal’s College, Rathdown, Co. Laois

Beginning in Sept 2025, our TYs began rehearsing for their school musical High School Musical Jr. This involved script reading, stage direction, singing and choreography. The progress and development of each student was so rewarding for them and staff, as can be seen...

St. Aidan’s Community School, Tallaght, Dublin 24

TY students participated in a full day stained glass workshop with the artist Bianca Divito. They learned about key techniques and how to safely use specialist tools. Each student designedand created an individual stained glass piece, developing their creativity,...

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Chief Inspector Harold Hislop visits Creative Engagement 2013

Chief Inspector Harold Hislop visits the Creative Engagement exhibition in Collins Barracks October 5 2013. He is seen here visiting students at the Scoil Mhuire,  Ennistymon Co. Clare stand, which art teacher Mary Fahy set up on the day to display the students work....

Creative Engagement at Conference in National Gallery 2013

Larkin Community College , St. Brendan's Community School Birr and Coolmine Community School exhibited their Creative Engagement projects at the  Conference in the National Gallery, September 28. The Minister of Education and Skills, Ruairi Quinn TD, met Maire O...

St Joseph’s College, Lucan. Ceramics

St Joseph’s College, Lucan. Ceramics

Art teachers Niamh Garvey and Felicity Lynch and the students of St Joseph's College, Lucan, produced two major ceramic pieces of work in 2012-13 with ceramic artist Niamh Synnott One project was connected to the Economics department and economics teacher Cora Ward...

Coolmine Community School

Coolmine Community School

Coolmine Community School in conjunction with The National Museum of Ireland, produced a Heritage based project.  Approaching 2014 they decided upon the  accurate reconstruction of a Dublin Viking house.  The photographs are a record of some of the work done.  ...

Presentation Secondary School  Wexford.

Presentation Secondary School Wexford.

Presentation Secondary School, Wexford, under the coordnation of art teacher Anita Conway, worked this year on a project to produce a wall feature in the lobby of the new school reflecting the wide range of creative arts pursued in the school. Images shown are of  the...

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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.