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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Christ King Girls’ Secondary School, Cork 2020

Christ King Girls’ Secondary School, Cork 2020

Christ King Girls' Secondary School, Cork have their Creative Engagement Project 2020 on portraits well underway. They hope to finish it as soon as schools are allowed to recommence. Art Teacher: Vikki...

Dunboyne College of Further Education, Co. Meath 2020

Dunboyne College of Further Education, Co. Meath 2020

Dunboyne College of Further Education, Co. Meath were undertaking a number of films for their Creative Engagement Project 2020. The students worked on a number of films this term. The photos are scenes taken from the student productions; 'Communication Is Key',...

Patrician Secondary School, Co. Kildare 2020

Patrician Secondary School, Co. Kildare 2020

Patrician Secondary School in Newbridge were moving along nicely to getting their large dragon for their Creative Engagement Project 2020 finished when the school closure for Covid 19 happened. They were working with artist Paul Woods. The first year group were really...

Bailieborough Community School, Co. Cavan 2020

Bailieborough Community School, Co. Cavan 2020

Bailieborough Community School in Cavan have their Creative Engagement Project 2020 well underway. A local artist Jackie O'Neill is working with the students on illustrating the local history and folklore related to the area of Bailieborough. Jackie demonstrated...

Kinsale Community School, Co. Cork 2020

Kinsale Community School, Co. Cork 2020

Kinsale Community School had great work done on their Creative Engagement Project 2020 before the schools closure. The project was based on designing and building a full size public seating installation for students in the school setting. The shape and design was...

Bremore Educate Together Secondary School, Co. Dublin 2020

Bremore Educate Together Secondary School, Co. Dublin 2020

Bremore Educate Together Secondary School thankfully got their Creative Engagement Project 2020 artist workshops completed before the school had to close because of Covid 19. Print artist Claire worked with their first year students to develop a series of intaglio...

Malahide Portmarnock Educate Together Secondary School, Dublin 2020

Malahide Portmarnock Educate Together Secondary School, Dublin 2020

Malahide Portmarnock Educate Together Secondary School have their Creative Engagement Project 2020 underway. Students are working with glass artist Michelle O’Donnell to create a sculptural or suspended glass piece (the form will evolve through collaboration with the...

Recent News and Updates

Project completion date November 16.

Hoping everyone has survived the lockdown. Due to the new  school timetable for reopening, the finishing date for Creative Engagement 2019-20 is now extended  to November 16. However it is in everyones best interests to complete projects as soon as possible. If anyone...

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Easter and last term.

I trust everyone had a relaxed Easter and now we look forward. If schools are back before summer we will try to finish as many of the Creative Engagement projects as possible and pay the artists. If not and with everyone's support we will finish them in autumn. We...

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Springtime

From you have I been absent in the Spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in everything, (Shakespeare 1609)  Good luck with all the work in Spring. Please send in any photos and text of projects underway. Evaluation Form...

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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.