Roscommon County Council's Arts Service offers three main support programmes for primary schools in the County.

1. Artist in Schools Programme
The Artist in Residency Schools Scheme is open to all primary schools in the County. The aim of this scheme is to offer pupils the opportunity to work with an artist on a once off project, designed between the artist and the school. The residency lasts for 50 hours in total and can be spread out over one term. For further information and application forms, please click here..

2. Primary School Source Handbook
This project was initiated in 2003 to cater for schools that could not avail of the residency scheme due of the small number of residencies available in any one year. As part of the programme over 30 professional artists from all disciplines have been commissioned to design lesson plans for innovative arts workshops. The plans are age specific are designed to be easily implemented by those that may have limited experience in some of the artforms.

3. Teachers Resource Material
The Arts Office has collected a wide variety of Arts Resource books for all artforms from across the world for use by teachers. These books are available to primary school teachers from the County Arts Office, Roscommon West Business Park, Circular Road in Roscommon Town. For further information or to request some books, please contact Avril Carr on 090 66 32541 or acarr@roscommoncoco.ie.