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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Curragh Post-Primary School, Co. Kildare 2020

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

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...

Colaiste Pobail Osraí, Kilkenny 2020

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

St. Michaels Secondary School, Finglas 2020

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, 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, 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, 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...

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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...

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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.