St. Patrick’s National School is currently part of the Creative Schools initiative. Creative schools support primary and second level schools to put arts and creativity at the heart of children’s lives. It is coordinated by the Arts Council. Each school creates a unique plan for their school and puts it into action over a two-year period. Our school is assigned aCreative Associate to work with us on the creativity journey. We also receive training and a grant towards implementing our plan.

In previous years, our school was involved in a Creative Schools cluster. This was a partnership with two other schools, Stackallen N.S. and Wilkinstown N.S. The schools worked on individual projects before coming together for a Wellfest day in Wilkinstown to showcase their projects, learn from each other and celebrate their work. 5^th class participated in the project and learned how to play the ukulele.

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As part of the Creative Schools process in 205-2026 we had a visit from graphic designer, Eoin Brady, who worked with a number of our senior classes. Eoin described the role of a graphic designer, showed the basics of the graphic design process, and the classes designed jerseys and used AI to reimagine them as real jerseys.

Many thanks to our teacher, Kevin Fagan, for arranging the visit to our school.

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