BLAST off- St. Peter’s are privileged to be involved in the Bringing Live Arts to Students and Teachers Programme 2022/2023

Ms. Hughes’ 5th class have the very privileged position of being selected to participate in the BLAST (Bringing Live Arts to Students and Teachers) programme for the coming year. Membership into the programme is extremely difficult to avail of so congratulations to Ms. Hughes for a magnificently convincing and compelling submission to enable her class take part. 

See details about the Department of Education’s BLAST programme below:

Arts in Education residency initiative in primary and post-primary schools

The Department of Education is announcing the launch of the 2022 Arts-in-Education BLAST Residency Programme, which will enable up to 425 new Arts-in-Education residencies in schools each year.

This initiative aims to support the integration of the principles and key skills outlined in the Arts-in-Education Charter and the Creative Ireland Programme (2017-2022), Pillar 1 Creative Youth.

The aim of this scheme is to give students in schools all over the country the opportunity to work with a professional artist on unique projects to be planned and developed between the artist, the teacher and the school under the co-ordination of the Education Support Centres Ireland ESCI network of 21 full-time education centres. This initiative supports children and young people for the future, where skills like the ability to connect and collaborate with others, engage in creative and critical thinking and practice inclusivity at every level will be paramount to peace, stability, sustainable economic growth and equality.

What is proposed is a unique streamlined process whereby schools apply for an artist on the Online Register of Approved Artists who are already trained for the new BLAST Arts-in-Education Residency Programme, managed by the local education centre. The education centre will also pay the artist which will further remove the administrative burden on teachers and schools.