Post Officers

The children learnt all about the role of the Postal Workers last week. The children listened to the story of The Jolly Postman during story time, where the Jolly Postman delivers his letters to story characters such as Goldilocks, The Big Bad Wolf, Cinderella etc. The children also took on the role of the post officer and delivered letters to mock houses to match the characters from the story. They also delivered parcels to practitioners. The children practised their mark making skills and wrote a letter to their family. They then put their letters in an envelope and addressed them with a practitioner. We then took the children in small groups to the local post office and they each bought a stamp for their letters and posted them in the post box. Once the letters had arrived home we encourgaed the children to discuss them with their families before returning them to nursery to talk about at group time and display them. The children were encouraged to match numbers, playing a posting game. They had to match the same number stamp to the letter and envelope before posting it in the toy postbox. Children also took part in group time activities all week to develop their Cmmunication and Language, Understanding. They had to differentiate between big and little and between a stamp, letter and parcel and they had to post them to different characters.