P.I.G. Pen

Our Mural

The front page of HOTLINE today has the original artwork for our mural. Congratulations to Maree

Edleston on her creative vision. As I’m sure you have all noticed our project has begun! From next Friday,

May 1st, families are welcome to join in this activity from lunchtime onwards. Children, who would like to

participate, will be selected from class to join in. The first kids to take part will be those who have someone

come along to be a part of this great PIG’s activity. It will be wonderful to see this beautiful representation

of our surrounding landscape evolve.

Mural

Three more examples of how creative our kids are appear this week. Maddy and Livy have created a joint

piece for us, Cain worked with his sister Amber on his and Tom C has written this wonderful piece. Well

done! We have some other works that are A3 in size, so we haven’t included them yet…….but we will.

Our collection of beautiful, original mugs in the pigpen is growing, but we need more. So this week could

Amber, Cain and Tom come along to create theirs, please? Mr. Hillas is enjoying using a different mug

each time he visits. Remember, you need to give us a drawing to be able to do a mug!! Check out “The

Piggery” on our school website and you will be able to view ALL the fantastic pig drawings in glorious

colour.

It’s still not too late to join in the fun with our Footy Tipping competition. If you join up at this point you

will still have the chance of racing ahead of the rest of us. The star tipper last week was Lily Black with 8

correct! How did she do that, I wonder? Even though the season has started, it’s definitely not too late to

join. You can have multiple entries on the one email address, so all family members can take part. Extended

family members, friends, neighbours and, in fact, anyone from our wider community is very welcome to

join. Once you have logged in just click on “find competition” and enter “Seville”. This will then have you

displayed on our ladder. Check out the website, and if you haven’t already done so, please make it your

homepage. This simple act will benefit our school. It is also a great way for grandparents or anyone else

who is interested to access Hotline and keep up to date with what’s happening at Seville Primary School. It

is also very handy to be able to check up on dates of upcoming events, when you can’t put your hands on the

hard copy of our newsletter.

We are pleased to report that our Festival grant application was submitted to the Shire of Yarra Ranges on

April 16th, as required. The two folders of documentation will hopefully see us successful in receiving up to

$10,000 to assist in staging our first festival. The interest and response to our festival plans is such that no

matter what the result is of our shire grant application, the Celebrating Seville Festival will take place! So

make sure you mark NOVEMBER 8th on your calendar now. We will keep you up to date on the progress

of our planning in HOTLINE, on our website www.sevilleps.vic.edu.au which has a link to the festival and

in the pigpen, where we will display ideas and plans as they evolve.

We have the opportunity with Open Night on May 18th to have all aspects of our school on display. To make

it easier for prospective parents to identify current parents, and therefore able to approach them with any

questions, we have come up with a way novel approach! Similar to the “teacher on duty” sash, we will have

a sash/scarf to be worn with a nametag. Having 20 or so parents easily identifiable in this way will not only

be helpful, it will also visually demonstrate the parent involvement in our school. Please put your name on

the list in the pigpen if you would be happy to help out in this way. Having mums and dads from all year

levels would be fantastic!