To commemorate the Platinum Jubilee Year of South Point School and High School, India Post (Govt. of India), Philatelic Department, Kolkata has designed a special postal stamp under their “My Stamp” programme and the same was unveiled in the school premises on Tuesday, December 12, 2023. South Point was founded in the year 1954 and shall complete seven decades of its existence on 1st April 2024. Ms Sudarshana Sen, Deputy Director PO, Business Development & Marketing, Kolkata GPO and Mr Dulal Das, Asst. Dy. Director PO, Philatelic Bureau, Kolkata were present on the occasion along with Mr. S K Daga, Trustee & Vice President and Mr Krishna Damani, Trustee & Secretary of South Point Education Society and other senior teachers of the School and students.
On this occasion, the School has also undertaken a unique educational exercise, whereby all its nearly 12,000 pupils will use the newly unveiled stamp of their school and special stationery and envelopes being supplied by the School, to write and post letters to their parents and guardians at home. For this purpose, India Post has set up temporary post office in the school. Dr. (Mrs.) Madhu Kohli, Director of South Point School, while welcoming the gathering, thanked India Post for giving the children an opportunity to experience first-hand the process of penning a letter and posting it themselves as well as to see them get delivered back at home. This will also allow them to preserve the commemorative stamp. The letters will draw smiles and invoke memories of the School, even decades into the future.
The youngest pupils of the School, who are still unable to form alphabets properly, will draw and paint on the special stationery and posted them to their parents. We are certain young parents will be delighted to receive an envelope with the special stamp, via post, in which their own child conveys their love for them. They have expressed why they enjoy learning and playing in school. Similarly, those in Classes II to V describe what they do in school, what makes them happy in school, as well as why they are proud to call themselves a Pointer.
Those who study in Classes VI to VIII will address letters to their parents, letting them know about their activities in School, how it has provided them with opportunities to grow, instilled values in them and is grooming them into good citizens of the future. On the other hand, pupils of the senior school, Classes IX to XII will write to their future selves. Some will document their experiences about the COVID times and how it made them more resilient. While others will write about their present aspirations and how their School is mentoring them to reach their goals. They will even pose questions to their future self as to whether they have been able to contribute to the well-being of the Planet.
The School wanted each pupil to partake meaningfully in the exercise as well as learn from it. In the times when letters are hardly ever written, except in examination halls, it has provided the students an opportunity to indulge in this activity as members of the South Point Community. It will also allow them to preserve the commemorative stamp. The letter to their parents and themselves will draw smiles and invoke memories of the School whenever they look back to this day.