Your school is organising a fete / carnival to raise funds for victims of the recent floods in your State. Write a notice to be put up on the school notice board giving details of the event.
Topic: Notice writing
Answer
MODEL ANSWER
============================================ M.G. INTERMEDIATE COLLEGE, ALLAHABAD ============================================
NOTICE
2 March 2020
LEND A HELPING HAND — FANCY FAIR AND FETE
The school will hold a fete on Sunday, 15 March 2020, at the Senior Football Field from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., to raise funds for the victims of the recent floods in our State. Students of all classes may note the following:
- Students of Classes I to XII, along with their families, are cordially invited.
- There will be food, game and handicraft stalls run by students and staff, and a lucky draw.
- All proceeds will go to the State Flood Relief Fund.
- Coupons may be collected from Mrs. T. Bhaskar in the Staff Room before 13 March 2020.
Sanjay Kumar Events Secretary ============================================
WHAT THIS QUESTION SPECIFICALLY REQUIRES
The five Ws must all be answerable: WHAT (a fete, and what it is for), WHEN (date AND time), WHERE, WHO may come, HOW to take part or buy coupons.
THE PURPOSE IS PART OF THE CONTENT. The question says the fete is to raise funds for flood victims, so the notice must say so — and saying where the money will go is what turns an announcement into an appeal. A notice describing a fete without mentioning the cause has missed the point of the question.
A TITLE for the event, such as "Lend a Helping Hand", is worth inventing: it is what a real school would do and it signals the charitable purpose at a glance.
Keep the body near 50 words, use numbered points, stay impersonal, and give your name AND designation. FORMAT AND MARKS DIVISION: see the Notice and E-mail references in the Writing Formats & Marking (Reference) chapter.
USE THIS AS A MODEL, NOT AS AN ANSWER TO MEMORISE. The question asks for an ORIGINAL composition, and every year examiners identify scripts reproduced from guide books; a memorised answer can be penalised for plagiarism and will in any case read as borrowed. Study this piece for its STRUCTURE — how it opens, how the paragraphs are ordered, where the required tasks are answered, how it ends — and then write your own, about your own school, your own family, your own town. Your own specific detail is worth more marks than anyone else’s polished sentence.