Thursday, September 20, 2007

Write for a newspaper

Mylapore Times, Adyar Times and Arcot Road Times, the neighbourhood newspapers offer children an opportunity to write for their newspapers in their issues in November.

This annual observance is in connection with the children's day celebrations and the newspapers reserve space for contributions from children in the issues of November.

Applications are invited from students of class 7 and above to report on local events, people and places.

Students should submit the applications mentioning the name, address, name of the school, age and hobbies along with contact phone numbers. Also, five lines on why the student wants to write for the neighbourhood newspapers, should also be enclosed.

Selected students will need to go out in their neighbourhood (Mylapore, Adyar or around K. K. Nagar / Virugambakkam areas, as the case may be) and do stories on the spot.

Best contributions will be awarded certificates of appreciation.

Email your entries to mylaporetimes@vsnl.com or adyartimes@vsnl.com or arcotroadtimes@vsnl.net

Friday, September 14, 2007

Letter writing contest

The Department of Posts, Govt. of India is conducting a letter writing contest for school children.
The competition will be held in two categories - Junior (class 6 - 8) and Senior (9 - 12)

The participants should write the letters on an Inland Letter Card in their own handwriting.
Letters can be in English or in Tamil.

There are five different topics to choose from in each category.
Students can write on any number of topics, but each letter should be in a separate Inland Letter.

Letters are to be posted to :
The Director (Mail Business), First Floor, Greams Road PO, Chennai 600006, so as to reach before 30.09.2007.

Best letters will be awarded prizes ranging from bicycles, electronic keyboards and many more.

For more details log on to http://www.tamilnadupost.nic.in/phil/lw/lwrtng.htm
You can also contact over phone : 93828 14253, 93834 72266 or 94444 86595