National Stamp Collecting competition training workshop

8 teachers and 42 students from Serangoon Secondary attended the training workshop for the National Stamp Collecting Competition at the Philatelic Museum.

I think the students learnt a lot from Ms Lily Samuel and were actually given some materials for a simple hands-on session. The students learnt about the different philatelic materials and the proper way of mounting them to the exhibition sheets.

Some advice from the trainer.

1. All presentation must be in protrait and not landscape orientation.

2. There must be an introduction, body and conclusion as well as a captivating title just like telling a story.

3. To use only white paper and no fancy or coloured fonts. It must be typed and the font size should be 14 for title, 12 for boday and 10 for caption.

4. The 1st page which is the content page must contain the page number.

5. There must be at least 16 exhibition sheets - other than the content page, all pages must contain at least 60% philatelic materials.

6. The students should use a variety of philatelic materials e.g first day cover, zo cards, aerogram, used stamp, mint stamp, minature sheet, commercial cover, postal cancellation, metal cancellation, watermarks, postcards, slogan canellation and of course gems like colouur trail, progressive sheets, odd shaped stamps etc.

7. Stamps must not be torn and the images should be properly seen. It must be detached from paper by floating.

8. The students should only write the group's name at the back of the exhibition sheet and not the name or school.

9. The philatelic materials must be mounted upright and not slanted. A proper margin for the mounting strip and stamp must be observed.