Hi all
Anyone fancy exchanging snail-mail postcards with our year 3 class? They have a very limited grasp of UK geography and getting postcards from other places in the UK might just help. We've stuck up a map of the British Isles, got them to help me place the names of the countries today and help to paint some flags to go round the edges. (Thank goodness for N being a wiz at drawing dragons!) A few real postcards from elsewhere to stick round the edges to mix with some they've drawn would be great.
We promise to return the favour
Reply here and I'll send you our address in a private message. Thanks

i can look for some for London..real touristy ones if i can find them

Where abouts in the NW are you? I'm in Huddersfield so if you want any from the area I'm happy to oblige, however there wouldn't be much point if you're only t'other side of the hill!!

I too will look for some London Postcards.

I never knew you lived in London Pinta.

BTW, did you like your SS present?

'yea i know' Pinta but im not always in Central London!

PM me if you would like some from Shetland. I had to look it up on a map before we moved here! Mum and Dad had this great idea of moving us from Cornwall to the ends of the earth - or so it seemd at the time! Do you want me to send them from me or get some of the kids to do it?

We did a project a couple of years ago when 'Hetty Hen' came to visit the school. Hetty is a toy hen who had a rucksack, sleeping bag, chicken food and a letter of introduction. The story was she had been travelling the world and had come to our school to stay for a while. Each child got the chance to take her home for a night and take a photo or 2 with a disposable camera, they then wrote their 'Hetty Adventures'. I posted a similar request to this one on a couple of boards I am a member of and Hetty started to get postcards from all over the world. Places she had supposedly visited. Some people even sent the souvenirs they had been 'looking after' for her until she got to our school. One person even posted her 'friend' a toy horse who wanted to see Shetland, others ent a series of cards over a few weeks. There are some very kind people out there.We had a display of the world map and all the cards and letters - the postie was almost mugged daily for a while by children hoping for the next card. Good fun.

Wow, that sounds like fun!

The postcards are displayed with a photocopy of the back with the message. There are also letters and emails. Each one has a different sticker with a corresponding one on the map to show where it came from. There was another display with the children's stories and paintings of Hetty.



And one of scanned copies of postcards they designed and sent to the old school of sisters in our class.



Hetty got to meet new friends that the older class hatched as part of their topic:

jaydee

have you seen the competition thread, can you enter one of your displays for it please? they look great!! what a lovely idea for the children!

Thought about it - but they are over 2 years old - need to get something newer!

yoou can use any display you have created, but if you want to enter something new that you have please do!

and maybe put your photos in Your own Creations too, as more people can see and be inspired by them there too!

thankyou jaydee for those!

They look great jaydee, please do enter one for the comp or if you want to use something newer thats fine to

everyone has just over a week to do so

Ok - done it!

Not that I bow to pressure or anything!

thanks jaydee!
going to look now!