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. Aidans Community School, Dublin 2023

St. Aidans Community School, Dublin 2023

St. Aidans Community School in Tallaght are working on their Creative Engagement Project 2023. It is a mosaic project inspired by nature and the environment, with the possibility of displaying it in the library as part of a reading space. St. Ediths LCA and some 1st...

St. Nathys College, Co. Roscommon 2022

St. Nathys College, Co. Roscommon 2022

St. Nathy's College, Co. Roscommon created an all weather metalwork sculpture named 'Cur Óg' for their Creative Engagement Project 2022. The students from TY and EAL were given the task of creating designs in keeping with the agreed theme of the biodiversity green...

Trinity Comprehensive Ballymun, Dublin 2022

Trinity Comprehensive Ballymun, Dublin 2022

Transition year students in Trinity Comprehensive Ballymun in Dublin have been working on a beautiful bottle cap mural with the Rediscovery Centre Ballymun. Teacher: Brian Cheevers

Recent News and Updates

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...

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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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Happy New Year

Happy New Year. Creative Engagement 2021-22 is underway with over 100 second level schools involved. Meanwhile an exhibition of Creative Engagement 2020-21 is scheduled for March 3-5 2022 as an online event. Further information about booking to exhibit the arts work...

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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.