Every child is born with some quality. There are some students who can write good essays, beautiful poems and short stories. There are some students who can draw beautiful pictures. But their qualities did not develop for want of proper field and encouragement. Therefore, schools publish their own magazines to provide their students with proper field for this purpose.
A school magazine is generally once in a year. It is published towards the end of a session. This magazine is organized by an editorial board. This editorial board consists of a few teacher and the class-representatives for the magazine. The students of the school submit their articles to the notified persons at the notified time. The board sits to consider and select the articles for publication. Some teachers also contributes articles to the school magazine.
Nature of articles:
The students of the school are advised to write articles of different natures, such as essay, poem, short story, one-act play, criticism, comment, translation and puzzle. The articles are allowed to be written in different languages, such as English, Oriya, Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali and Urdu. In a Tamil medium school. Tamil articles are also allowed.
Usefulness: School-magazines are very useful for the school students. Students like to see their articles in print. They like to see their names in print. So, they feel encouraged to build themselves as poets, play-wrights, essayists and artists.
Conclusion: It is a matter of regret that most of the High Schools are unable to publish their magazines owing to paucity of funds. The local committees should grant enough money on the magazine-head to the school in their areas.