How to become a Creative School
Being a Creative School is an exciting and invigorating two-year guided journey to develop and implement a Creative Schools Plan unique to your school.
Children and young people’s involvement in planning, decision-making and reflection is key.
Creative Associates Training 2023. Photo: Mark Stedman.
Getting started
To begin, your school must register with the Arts Council’s online services system and submit an application.
The programme then has three phases:
- Explore and express what creativity means to your school community.
- Develop the Creative Schools Plan that’s tailored to your school/centre.
- Implement your Creative Schools Plan!
We offer a package of supports:
- A Creative Associate to work with your school for up to nine days per year for two years.
- €4,000 grant for activities over two years.
- Training for the School Coordinator (a teacher).
- Networking and participation in national initiatives, such as Creative February.
- Disability access costs: the Arts Council is committed to making our funding programmes, and the work that we fund, accessible to everyone. We provide access costs, which can include both personal access costs as well as costs for making your school’s Creative Schools work accessible to all involved.
Want to know more?
- Read the Creative Schools Clinic Presentation in English and Irish.
- View our funding help and guidance section to learn more about the application process.
- Browse our Creative Schools resources section to guide and inspire you throughout the creative process.
Coláiste Chiaráin photography.