18 Cork County Schools added to Creative Schools Programme
Cork County Council welcomes news that 18 primary and secondary schools in Cork County have been added to the national Creative Schools Programme. This flagship initiative of the Creative Ireland Programme is led by the Arts Council in partnership with the Department of Education and Skills and the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and aims to enable the creative potential of children in Ireland by understanding, developing and celebrating the arts and creativity in schools. A new Primary Schools Creative Cluster for West Cork has also been announced. This Creative Cluster will be managed by the West Cork Education Centre and will include Multose National School, Ballymoney National School and Kilgarriffe NS Clonakilty. Each school participating in the Creative Schools scheme will receive €3,100 and those participating in the creative cluster will benefit from an additional €1,000 per school for 2020. This announcement means an additional €60,000 of investment in cre