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Aughadreena National School

Creative Schools

Published: 18 Dec '24



Creative Schools is an initiative of the Creative Ireland Programme to enable the creative potential of every child.  It aims to provide opportunities for children to build artistic and creative skills, such as curiosity, imagination, persistence, communication and collaboration.

This year, we have been successful in our application to participate in the programme, which is a 2 year developmental programme.  We have been awarded a grant of €4000 towards implementation of our plan over the 2 years.  We are delighted to be facilitated by Mary Farrelly, our Creative Schools Associate, who will work with us to design and implement the plan. Eilish Smith is our School Co-Ordinator.


To date, Mrs. Smith has attended a training day in Athlone.  Following this, a consultation process with pupils and staff has taken place, with the aim of generating ideas for how they would like to proceed.  We also held elections for our Creative School Committee who are as follows:

Creative Associate: Mary Farrelly

School Co-Ordinator: Eilish Smith

SNA: Emily McInerney

6th Class: Shay Galligan/Abigail Conway

5th Class: Phoebe Smith

4th Class: Lilyanna Curtin

3rd Class: Shea Smith

2nd Class: Hannah Gaffney

1st Class: Tiernan Smith

Senior Infants: Declan Ferguson

Junior Infants: Roisín Smith

Mary Farrelly has held a drama workshop with all classes and is returning before Christmas to do a further drama/music workshop.

We look forward with great excitement to seeing what creative projects the children will produce over the coming years.