July 27, 2016
Membership of the Nanango Stamp Club has boomed this year thanks to the club’s South Burnett Schools Stamp Education Program.
Stamp club president Graham Coombe said there are now 70 school children involved in school-based stamp groups throughout the region.
“And we haven’t even gone to all the schools yet,” he said.
The Stamp Club launched its South Burnett Schools Stamp Education Program in February, and soon had two schools put up their hands to take part.
A further six schools introduced the program in Term 2, and the club are hopeful more schools will come aboard as the new school term gets underway.
The program allows teachers to use stamp collecting to foster student interest in geography, history and research by studying and analysing not just stamps, but the subjects they depict.
Students might gather details about birds and animals shown on stamps, for example, or find out about foreign countries that issue them.
Stamp clubs can be established with as few as seven members, so the program is accessible for small schools as well as larger ones.
Any school that would like to discuss the concept is welcome to phone Graham on (07) 4163-1786 to find out more details.
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The club’s next community activity will be to put together a display of stamps that will tour the South Burnett’s RSL clubs later this year.
The display will focus on the Australian Defence Forces and Australia’s military involvements.
The exhibition will be a forerunner to the State Interclub Display Competition, which the Stamp Club intend to enter.
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The Nanango Stamp Club is the South Burnett’s only affiliated member of the Queensland Philatelic Council, the official body that represents Queensland’s stamp collectors.
The club normally meets on the second Saturday of each month in the Long Hai Room at Nanango RSL.
Meetings start at 10:00am and are followed by a social lunch, and visitors are always welcome.
