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Curragh Post-Primary School, Co. Kildare 2020
Curragh Post-Primary School, Co. Kildare 5th year LCA students are working on Ceramic heads with beautiful painted wooden backgrounds for their Creative Engagement Project 2020. Artist: Paul Woods Teacher: Antoinette Brennan...
Convent of Mercy Secondary School, Roscommon 2020
The Convent of Mercy Secondary School in Roscommon have their Creative Engagement 2020 Project well underway. Transition Year students took part in the blacksmith workshop. The students aided by the very skilled blacksmith, Patrick Strahan, worked to forge pieces for...
St Aloysius’ College, Cork 2020
St Aloysius' College's Creative Engagement Project 2019-20 Teacher: Rebecca Wall
Colaiste Pobail Osraí, Kilkenny 2020
Creative Engagement Project 2019-20 project from Colaiste Pobail Osraí - Ealaíon san aer úr. Teacher: Sheena McKeon Artist: Caroline Schofield
Coláiste Treasa Secondary School, Kanturk, Co. Cork 2020
Coláiste Treasa Secondary School have their Creative Engagement 2020-21 project well under way. Transition year students are working with artist Sue Gifford to bring creative colour to their school walls. [gallery...
St. Michaels Secondary School, Finglas 2020
St. Michaels Secondary School, Finglas Transition Year students worked with artist Niamh Synnott on a Totem in their Art Garden. The theme for this years Creative Engagement Project was "positive mental health". [gallery...
Hansfield Educate Together Secondary School, Dublin 2020
Hansfield Educate Together Secondary School collaborated with Artist Mona Atkinson for their Creative Engagement Project 2020. Mona led an online workshop with a class of 5th year students. The students explored the exciting alternative photography process of...
Loreto Community School, Milford, Co. Donegal 2020
Loreto Community School in Milford, Co. Donegal have completed their Creative Engagement Project 2020. They were delighted to have a visit from Minister Joe Mc Hugh who was delighted to get a chance to work with them on the project....
Colaiste Pobail Setanta, Clonee, Dublin 15 2020
Colaiste Pobail Setanta, Clonee had a different Creative Engagement experience this year due to Covid 19 but they still get to enjoy the great mural Garreth created for them. Artist: Garrett Joyce Teacher: Paul Hickey
Recent News and Updates
Good Summer
Trusting everyone will have a good summer. I hope exams and holidays all work out well. Deadline for Creative Engagement 2020-21 is extended to Nov 17. If projects are finished by the end of the current school year please send in the Evaluation Form. Creative...
Creative Schools Week
Creative Schools Week 10-14 May, 2021 Creative Schools Week is a celebration of creativity in schools which includes both In-School Celebrations and Online Celebrations. It is organised by the Creative Schools initiative which supports schools and Youthreach centres...
Creative Engagement 8th Annual Exhibition
Congratulations to all exhibitors at the recent exhibition. Click here to view our 2021 exhibition
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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.