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SELL YOUR HOME FAST Mural refl ects the world of Taw Hill children
OR SIMPLY SELL & RENT BACK ! North Swindon vicar Reverend Mike Haslam has been spreading the message of God in a creative way
to the children of St Francis Primary School in Taw Hill.
1 No costly estate agent fees to pay! In July he worked with a group of pupils to create resented important messages. “The one of Isambard
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3 Sell your Home & Rent it back a tryptch of murals which welcomed the children on Brunel is about how good work pays off, it encourages
4 Completion date to suit you! their return to school in September. us to work hard. And the other panels represent caring
5 No timewasting viewings Rev Mike said he had been keen to fi nd a way of for the world, and friendship.”
6 No chain collapse - we always giving the school hall more character and engaging Rev Mike said he wanted features from the children’s
complete! children and their everyday experiences. Drawing on lives to be represented: their town, school, and world,
7 Rescue a broken chain or debt /
repossession his skills as a painter, he and headteacher Clive Westall and also how these connect with God. The murals con-
We are local Property Traders decided murals would be a symbolic and attractive tain football, homes in North Swindon, and railways
which made the town famous. The three panels are
way of giving the hall both decoration and colour.
FOR A FREE NO OBLIGATION Year 5 pupil Kyra Jenkins, said, “we feel special linked by a continuing theme of sky, land and sea.
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to be involved. We got to make the mural our own, “It was great fun and the kids enjoyed taking part.
PROPERTY SOLUTIONS and Rev Mike used our ideas and designs, and put Working in oil paints is a different medium for them,
ON 07745 91 91 98 them together.” and they loved getting their own ideas across. I hope
www.propertysolutions.moonfruit.com James Turner said he thought that the murals rep- they enjoy the end result for years to come.”
Rev Mike Haslam and Year 4/5 pupils show off their work before it was mounted in the school hall

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