Letter to Your Friend About Your School

A letter describing your school works best as a tour in words: say where it stands and how old it is, then what the buildings and grounds are like, then the teachers and what makes the place worth attending. Keep it to three short body paragraphs and finish with an invitation for your friend to visit.

The question: Write a letter to your friend describing your school.

The format

Choose an order and keep to it

A description falls apart without a plan. Decide before writing whether you are moving from outside to inside or from general to particular, then follow it. Building, grounds, people is the order most students find easiest to hold.

• Where the school stands and how old it is.
• What the buildings and grounds look like.
• Who is in it — teachers, clubs, what happens there.

Select three or four details and develop them

Description is selection. Two named trees and a foundation stone with a date on it make a school real; a list of every facility makes it anonymous. Choose few things and say something about each.

• Prefer checkable detail to praise: the foundation stone says 1954, not our school is very famous.
• 🚨 Never name your real school or a real teacher — exam scripts are anonymous.

End on what you like most

Finish the middle paragraph with the thing you would actually mention to a friend — a club, a teacher, a habit — then invite them to visit. That gives a descriptive letter the personal ending it otherwise lacks.

Model answer

Model answer (about 175 words)

Station Road, Bogura

5 September 2026

Dear Nila,

Thank you for your letter. You wrote that you have moved to a new school and asked me to tell you about mine, so here it is.

My school stands at the end of Station Road, about ten minutes' walk from our house. It is an old school — the foundation stone says 1954 — and it looks it: a long two-storeyed building of red brick with a wide veranda running the whole length of the upper floor. In front there is a playground with two old rain trees at the far end, and we sit under them at tiffin because they are the only shade in the compound. There are eighteen classrooms, a library on the ground floor and a small laboratory that was added three years ago.

What I like most, though, is not the building. Our English teacher, Mr Hasan, runs a debating club on Thursday afternoons, and it has changed the way I speak in front of people. Do come and see it when you visit in the winter. How is your new school? Write and tell me everything.

Yours ever,

Tanjina

What earns and loses marks

• Pick three or four concrete details rather than describing everything. Two rain trees and a foundation stone dated 1954 make a school real; “our school is very beautiful and famous” makes it anonymous.
• Length is not the point — a letter of about 150 words that does the four parts properly beats a rambling 300-word one.
• Keep the tense consistent: a letter about something that happened stays in the past, a letter about a plan stays in the future.
• Ask at least one question of your friend, so the letter reads as one half of a conversation rather than a speech.
• Leave a clear blank line between paragraphs — layout marks are given for what the examiner can see at a glance.

Mistakes to avoid

• ✗ Our school is the best school in Bangladesh and everybody knows it. ✓ It is an old school — the foundation stone says 1954. — a checkable detail beats a claim
• ✗ Dear Miss Nila, ✓ Dear Nila, — no titles in an informal salutation