Introduction:
- School magazine is a periodical magazine. The school manager publishes it. Students manage it with the help of teachers. School magazines contain essays, poems, stories and other articles.
- Students write them in Hindi or English. Some articles are also written by teachers. All articles in the magazine are free from politics.
Different from other magazines:
- School magazines are different from other magazines in many ways. It is distributed only among students and teachers. It is not for the general public. Therefore, it does not contain anything of public interest.
- Generally, it contains news of school sports. Results of previous examinations are also mentioned in it. Photos of students who bring laurels to the school are given in it and they are mentioned.
Benefits of School Magazine:
- School magazines have many benefits. One is that it inspires students to write. Boys are generally naturally interested in reading and are interested in writing. They have to write something or the other to contribute to magazines. They have to read and write regularly for their magazines. In this way they learn the art of writing.
- Secondly, school magazines motivate students to study more diligently. They also participate in sports with great enthusiasm to see their names and photographs in the school magazine. Every school magazine contains details of the progress of students.
- It describes the prizes and medals won by them. Hence, those students who want to see their names in the school magazine work hard in their studies and sports. Thirdly, school magazines help bring students closer to each other. Students contributing to magazines have to read many other books to increase their knowledge. Besides, they learn to think for themselves.
- Their reasoning power is sharpened by thinking. By writing regularly for the magazine, their writing skills develop. This also improves their language and gradually they master the language. A true sense of competition develops among the boys. The essays and articles written by the teachers contain many practical suggestions for the benefit of the students. The boys also learn to write good articles from the writings of able teachers.
Its Management:
- The students have a personal relationship with the school magazine. They manage it themselves, in which the teachers guide and help them. Its chief editor is the principal of the school. A mixed committee of teachers and students is formed, which makes arrangements for its printing etc. Senior teachers and talented students of higher classes work as sub-editors.
Conclusion:
- Every school should have its own magazine. The school magazine records the early writings of future great writers. The importance of the school magazine is no less than that of the teacher. This provides regular exercise to both the mind and pen of the students.