Thank you, Mr Postman

Children understand how the Royal Mail came to exist and how letters were sent in the past. They identify pillar-boxes and then write a letter to an older person for whom this was an important form of communication.

Teaching Outcomes
To understand how the post office and Royal Mail came to exist and explain what forms of communication we may now use as an alternative, e.g. email, text, phone.
To understand the purpose of a letter and write their own letter to a very special older person.

Children will:

• Understand how letters have been a method of communication for a long time and how the postal service came to be formed.
• Write a letter to an older person to find out about when and why they write letters now and did so in the past.

• Explanation of Rowland Hill’s postal system
• Post Box image
• Story of the post
• Examples of stamps
• Examples of letters
• Letter template

• A letter addressed to the class in an envelope with a stamp. It needs to be from a fantasy character.

The history of letter writing and postal system from inthedeadletteroffice.wordpress.com
The history of letter writing and postal system from postalmuseum.org