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Meánscoil San Nioclás, Dún Garbhán, Port Láirge
Ag Teacht Abhaile was a collaborative Creative Engagement Project that brought together puppetry, drama, music, storytelling, and visual art through the Irish language. Working with artist Des Dillon, students from 1st to 4th Year explored puppetry skills through...
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...
Roscommon Community School
The Legacy Tree Project, led by artist Glenn Gibson, was a collaborative Creative Engagement Project involving Transition Year and 5th Year Art students. The project explored themes of legacy, growth, and community through the shared symbol of a tree. Students worked...
Schull Community School, Co. Cork
Schull Community Students learned about animation for their Creative Engagement Project. They created 1 to 2 min stop-go animations based on their own theme. Using materials like paper, paint Lego, everyday objects and plasticine. The Project took place in January...
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,...
Coláiste Muire, Ballymoate, Co. Sligo
Secondary art students from Colaiste Muire Ballymote, Co Sligo collaborated with artist Ana Faye to create a stunning Japanese-inspired kimono, utilizing traditional Sashiko stitching on denim. This project highlights student and artist collaboration at its best....
Magh Éne College, Co. Donegal
Celebrating Art, Culture and Community – Magh Éne Mural Project The Magh Éne Mural Creative Engagement Project was a collaborative, student-led initiative involving Transition Year and Fifth Year students in the design and creation of a large-scale mural reflecting...
Recent News and Updates
Creative Engagement Annual Exhibition.
Many thanks to all who exhibited in the online Creative Engagement exhibition March 3-5. It featured projects from the 2020-21 school year. There was a wide range of projects and all done under lockdown and in spite of the pandemic. A recording of the exhibition will...
Creative Engagement Exhibition March 3-5
NAPD is exhibiting the 2020-21 projects live online March 3-5. It is a celebration of the project work done by the students, teachers and artists in the past year in spite of the headwinds of the pandemic and school lockdowns. Please contact dermotcarney@napd.ie if...
Online Creative Engagement Exhibition March 3rd-5th.
Many thanks for everyone who were involved in the 2020-21 Creative Engagement programme in what was a very difficult school year. NAPD is now organising an online Exhibition of the 2020-21 Creative Engagement work, March 3-5 Minister Catherine Martin TD is being...
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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.