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Youth Leader's Reports From Around the States
contributed by State and Territory Youth Development Officers and Youth Leaders
[ from APF News, November 2007 ]
Australian Capital Territory
There is of course always room for more people to join us, and we will be writing letters to our lost souls to remind them that we miss them, and that October is stamp month - the perfect time to bring out your collection and explore a galaxy of possibilities.
New South Wales
from Cyril McColough
It
is heartening to see that Peter, Stephen, Mark and David are as active as ever,
despite the loss of John and Bob, keep up the good work guys!!
Peter from the Newlake Youth Stamp Group sent a report on their last meeting held on the 10 July during the school holidays when 5 Junior members and 4 adult helpers attended, unfortunately 3 family groups were absent, removing 8 of our regular members. They allocated time slots for different activities.
Stephen gave out his word-search puzzles that require a catalogue to be looked up first. The kids then find the words to search for in the find-a-word.
Mark gave a display on Peru, followed by questions that had answers in the display itself.
After lunch prepared by Peter, David tipped his stamps out on the rug and the kids had to find 10 or more stamps whose face values added up to exactly 2007. They also had to find a set of stamps that could be mounted and presented at the next meeting.
Peter had a catalogue hunt where the kids had to find out about a stamp and the country of issue, five separate countries were involved. The day finished with a session of stamp bingo, allowing children to familiarise themselves with both local and foreign stamps and the countries that issue them. There were also some giveaways and prizes, and children were awarded "auction points" for every activity - up to 171 points each. These points are spent at our auction session at the end of the year.
Cyril from Sydney passes on reports from Sutherland Kid's Corner where the first Saturday in September Mal and Flo had 4 to 6 children enjoying "Cinderellas" where they could make and colour-in their own stamp on a small perforated square punched out of blank paper. They could also make their own Father's Day card in the shape of a neck tie and colour it in and put a stamp on the card.
The next Sydney Youth Stamp Group on 11 October will have as its theme "Aborigines" and at the time of writing several children had already registered for the day's activities. Cyril is preparing a quiz on the Aborigines stamps in the small Australian Catalogue.
Queensland
from Joan Orr
QPC attended the APTA Show at the end of August for the State Exhibition and were pleasantly surprised at the number of children attending. The Kidz Corner had a colour-in-competition, design-a-stamp and a short quiz on the Saturday. All those who participated were given a give-away bag and had their names and addresses taken as during the following week these activities were judged and 7 prize packets were sent out to the deserving winners. One design with an elephant had ears which were so life-like they took everyone's fancy! Some of the participants were well known to us and we noticed how much their work has improved over the shows.
Joan will be attending the launch of Australia Post's Stamp Month, along with plenty of children who participate in the quiz sessions for plenty of prizes and have their faces painted.
Tasmania
South Australia
from Barbara Bartsch
With 10 children, 1 parent and 1 teacher it has been a great success with a stamp display of Great Britain and give-aways. They meet every week in the computer room and have access to printing and computers needed. The staff are right behind the group and all are looking forward to the coming weeks, as the time is the quickest 45 minutes that Fred has ever spent!
Fred has need of some stamp albums for the children, as a start. Anyone with a spare album can forward direct to Fred, c/- the Lower Murray Philatelic Society, 9 Tumbella Drive, Murray Bridge. Good luck Fred!
Barbara reports that The Gifted and Talented Children's Association have asked her to continue to hold several more workshops during November and December, because they are very popular with the children and several are now collecting seriously.
She will be looking after the "Kids Korner" at the Mt Gambier SAPC Congress, and designing and printing the certificates for both the colouring-in competition and also the adult exhibiters. David reports that there is a 3 frame exhibit on frogs, and 1 frame exhibit on King George the Fifth entered in Congress.
The Eastern District Schools, Thorndon Park, East Torrens and East Marsden Primary Schools 'Stamps and Stuff' Clubs reviewed perforations and looked at different formats of booklets, and had lots of fun with hinging. Different mounts were easy to use and understand, but hinging was a really hilarious experience!
Everyone had a sheet of paper telling a short story with six missing words represented by blank squares where stamps could be inserted to make sense of the story, also a small packet of hinges, directions for using them and a variety of stamps. In one completed story we had Matthew Flinders giving a present of a fish to Queen Elizabeth!
There was another similar sheet finishing the story, that they all took home to practice with, and have to bring back to the next meeting to receive a small prize. It was fun but a lot of mess of squashed hinged to pick up off the floor at the end of the lesson.
Barbara, what about a small prize to the child who picks up the most hinges, or whatever needs picking up at the end of the lesson?
SAPC Junior Stamp Club was to meet on the 16th September.
Mario still has contact with his school group and delivers the Young Collector, and Barry is taking them to 3 schools where the clubs are run by the teachers as several are interested in stamps, and also helps 2 Catholic schools and when delivering the magazine passes on quantities of stamps too!
Victoria
An
interesting email from Laurie outlines plans to hold a meeting of Victorian
youth leaders on Saturday 1st December at the Postmaster Gallery at Australia
Post Headquarters, Exhibition Street Melbourne. For further information please
contact Laurie email: ljsmyth@vic.australis.com.au.
Western Australia
Yvette
winds up 2006 with a report on the Swan River Stamp Show. All the children
enjoyed the lucky dips, show bags and junior auction.
We had a lot of support from local dealers and I thank them for all the help and assistance they have given to myself and Jeff over the year.
We added a translator to the website with more plans to expand with a "What stamp is that?" section, where juniors can send pictures of the stamps they are unable to identify and the other junior members can assist them. We will also be creating an illustrated dictionary/stamp finder for the site to assist with this and other plans for the future. Swan River Stamp Show is on again in October with a workshop planned, and the Junior Circuit sheets going strong with two new members joining the circuit run.
ACTIVITIES
SUPPLIED BY THE NEWLAKE JUNIOR STAMP GROUP
(with thanks to Peter, David and Stephen, Leaders will need a quantity of Australian and world stamps for these activities. Some can be done at
meetings, and others at home and brought along to the next meeting. Children can either earn points or prizes for their efforts.)
Identifying the picture: Children are given world catalogues and magnifying glasses to find out what was on stamps from a particular country. The catalogues are needed as some stamps have no information on them, just pictures.
Finding a set of stamps: Each child is to find a set of stamps from a country (maybe Australia might be easiest) soak them off paper, then mount them onto a sheet that gives some information about that set.
Finding denominations: Find out all the denominations ever used on Australian stamps. The challenge is to find one of each denomination and present it in some form of display at the meeting.
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