More than 400 students will put pen to paper today as part of an initiative to encourage them to write letters.
Children at Ramsey Grammar School who have an English lesson will write to family, friends and famous people across the world:
It's part of celebrations to mark 70 years of comprehensive education on the Isle of Man - the school was the first in the British Isles to become a comprehensive in 1946.
Julie Owen is the head of English - she says the communication form is dying out as modern technology takes over:
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