St Michael’s Holy Faith Secondary School, Finglas 2023

St. Michael's Secondary School in Finglas have finished a beautiful Creative Engagement Project for 2023 talented Transition Year students worked with potter Pat Rafferty to create the the final Ceramic work about the essentiality of the Bees🐝 for...

St. Jarlath’s College, Tuam, Co. Galway 2023

St. Jarlath's College in Tuam have completed their Creative Engagement Project for 2023. One project was a clay tile project and the second was a felting project. They were visited by Mary Hanley on behalf of Creative Engagement in early May. Artist: Karena Ryan...

St. Aidans Community School, Tallaght 2023

St Aidans Community School Tallaght worked on a mosaic mural for their Creative Engagement Project 2023. This was a collaborative project between St. Ediths, and some of their Junior Cycle students. Artist: Dave West Teacher: Michelle Murphy

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Stratford College, Rathgar, Dublin 2019

Stratford College, Rathgar, Dublin 2019

Stratford College's transition year students created a film as their Creative Engagement Project 2019. "We were lucky enough to have Cal McGhee come in to teach us about aspects of production too, and we were told about how to write a script. This was greatly helpful...

St Joseph’s Secondary School, Rush, Co. Dublin 2019

St Joseph’s Secondary School, Rush, Co. Dublin 2019

St Josephs Secondary School's Creative Engagement Project 2019: Music Song Writing and Production Workshop provided by the Walton's New School of Music. The transition year students had a wonderful day of creating music, performing and producing an original song....

CBS Synge Street, Dublin 2019

CBS Synge Street, Dublin 2019

CBS Synge Street's Creative Engagement Project 2019 21 students from Transition Year took part in the 2019 project 'Express yourself through process: Painting canvas'. Artist: Sean O'Rourke Teacher: M. Wright...

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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.