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By Darragh Kelly Funding of €75,000 has been approved for the development of a new recreation area and sensory garden at Cloverhill National School…

Small children may seem innately creative, but adults can help or hinder this impulse

A MAGICAL tale of a seal, who takes female form and begins a new life in a small coastal community, has been brought to life at Fanore National School in a short film to celebrate Cruinniú na nÓg.

May 15th 2021 at 08:00:00 GMT +0300 For two semesters, from the September of 2013 to the April of 2014, Daystar University had a fascinating programme called the ‘Creative Academy,’ that was the brainchild of banker-writer Kinyanjui Kombani, now based at Stanchart in Singapore, and the unconventional academic Dr. Wanjia Njoya. “Most literature courses are taught by academics who only know the theory of writing,” Kombani said. “We wanted a course where real life writers taught end-to-...

The celebration of creativity featuring activities in schools and online takes place from 10-14 May!

Teachers and pupils in Adamstown NS recently launched their participation in the Creative Schools Initiative. They were delighted to welcome a special visitor to their school, their new creative friend Aileen Lambert, who was sent to them by Creative Schools to begin to look at what creative things they get up to and start to plan what theyd like to do. Aileen visited each classroom in the school and engaged everyone in a body percussion exercise which created the soundscape of a rainstorm in ...