About Samildanach Arts

Lugh Samildánach is a pen name inspired by the Celtic figure of the same name — the master of many arts.

Samildanach Arts distributes licensed educational resources for schools that sit at the intersection of creative practice, governance, and risk-aware design.

The work includes plays, planning frameworks, and school support tools. All outputs are unified by a single design aim: to support schools without increasing pressure, exposure, or obligation.

The approach behind Samildanach Arts is informed by experience across Irish education, governance, and risk-based professional practice, combined with long-standing creative work.

This perspective recognises schools as high-trust, high-pressure environments where well-intended systems can unintentionally cause harm if they introduce surveillance, escalation, performative compliance, or blurred responsibility.

These resources are designed to lower risk, not add it.

Core Philosophy

Preserve ethics first.
Interpret procedural defensibility later.

Schools are trusted to act ethically without surveillance.

This principle underpins every resource we licence.

Schools do not need more programmes, initiatives, or compliance layers.
They need permission structures that protect professional judgement, pupil dignity, and wellbeing — especially under pressure.

What These Resources Are

These resources are:

optional governance and support resources
designed to sit alongside existing practice
usable in full, in part, or not at all
safe to pause, adapt, or stand down
intended to reduce escalation, not drive implementation

If nothing is done with these resources, nothing happens.
This is intentional.

What These Resources Are Not

These resources are not:

curricula
programmes
methodologies
assessments
monitoring tools
performance or accountability systems

They do not require rollout, tracking, reporting, or justification.

Ethics, Autonomy & Safeguarding

All resources are licensed, not sold outright, because context matters.

Licensing exists to:

protect pupils and staff
preserve teacher autonomy
prevent reputational or coercive misuse
ensure ethical conditions are upheld

Schools retain full control over:

whether a resource is used
how it is used
who uses it
when it is paused or discontinued

No school names are used in marketing.
No usage is monitored.
No data is collected.

Confidentiality & Non-Monitoring

All licences operate alongside a Confidentiality and Non-Monitoring Agreement.

This guarantees:

no monitoring, auditing, or oversight
no reporting requirements
no access to staff, pupils, records, or planning
no promotional attribution or case studies

The agreement exists to protect schools, not the provider.

Sample Confidentiality & Non-Monitoring Agreement: (Click to download)

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1YmsaTKlZflPM8EQqyoaUcMxGFpPzkjbf

Ethical Licence Conditions

(Read before proceeding)

Samildanach Arts licences are issued only where the following conditions are accepted:

Accountability is personal.
The school’s named accountability leader carries responsibility for ethical decision-making. Responsibility is not delegated to policy, procedure, or committee.
Ethical decisions must be owned honestly.
Where a decision is made in good faith and with professional judgement, a Samildanach Arts resource may be used to help explain that decision — but not to disguise, defer, or avoid responsibility.
Misuse ends continuation.
Where a resource is used to justify inaction, avoidance, or abdication of professional duty, no further licence will be issued. There is no public dispute or appeal.

These conditions exist to protect pupils first, and the integrity of the work as a whole.

Licensing

Licences permit internal, school-controlled use of the materials for the agreed term.

no monitoring or reporting is required
no implementation is expected
no outcomes are claimed or measured

Samildanach Arts licences resources for internal school use where ethical practice, professional autonomy, and pupil wellbeing can be reasonably upheld.

In rare cases, a licence may be declined or not renewed if these conditions cannot be met.