help needed

[Indy]

I have foolishly agreed to my wifes request to come to her school to tell a bunch of 5 year olds about Royal Mail. Trouble is I have no idea how to structure the talk for kids that young. Do RM provide any aids for learning or school info packs?
Failing that has anyone got any good ideas I can use?

Ta.

Don't keep them in a stuffy classroom, take them out on your round, their first experience of 'work experience'.
Some might even be keen enough to do the Door To Doors at addresses for which you have no proper post.

30 kids? No thanks! Besides it wouldn't be allowed

Not allowed?.... bloody do gooders! next they'll be banning children from being chimney sweeps... tut!

[DGP1]

There are guidelines to giving school talks and there a video somewhere (Lenny the Letter.....on a letter adventure) ask your DOM for the video

[Lounge Lizard]

There are guidelines to giving school talks and there a video somewhere (Lenny the Letter.....on a letter adventure) ask your DOM for the video

That's right, and you can get them to prepare your Door To Doors while they're watching it, five being an ideal age for an introduction to multitasking and tell them to tell their parents to stay in if they're expecting a parcel or Special or Recorded Delivery. and tell them Tuesday's the quietest day if their mothers can take the trouble to put the kettle on and make some coffee.

[arty_morty]

Right, well I sent an email to the RM education department. They sent me some notebooks to give the kids and a DVD featuring Lenny. I spoke to a bloke called Barry Wiles who gave me a few pointers on how to structure the talk. I'm almost looking forward to it.

[Caniel]

Take some pictures of your day at work.

*Signing on bench and your manager.

*Your frame when you arrive at work covered in machine bundles.

*The IPS sorting with loads of fat cheesed off posties sorting.

*Your frame full of mail when it's all thrown off.

*All your packets in a ALT.

*All your bags once your bagged up.

*Some random pics of where you go when out on delivery.

*A pic of an angry dog.

*A pic of a customer looking chuffed to receive a packet.

*A pic of your bike/park n loop van/or packet delivery van

*Most important a pic of a cat on delivery, black and white ideally as kids all think we have a cat or know a cat.

*Finally some pics of you returning to the office.

You can come up with some simple notations to put to the pictures and drag it out for 20 minutes then answer some questions from the kids after :)

Hand out some keep the post public stuff from the Union as well like stickers :)

Hope this helps

[arty_morty]

Take some pictures of your day at work.


*The IPS sorting with loads of fat cheesed off posties sorting.

Do you work in my office? Thanks for the tips.

[arty_morty]

Well that didn't go too badly. The kids watched the Lenny the Letter DVD and then I told them a bit about my day. They then asked me a few questions and that was about it. At least they enjoyed it.

[Lounge Lizard]

Well that didn't go too badly. The kids watched the Lenny the Letter DVD and then I told them a bit about my day. They then asked me a few questions and that was about it. At least they enjoyed it.

What questions did they ask ?

[clashcityrocker]

Well that didn't go too badly. The kids watched the Lenny the Letter DVD and then I told them a bit about my day. They then asked me a few questions and that was about it. At least they enjoyed it.

What questions did they ask ?

Where's my giro?
Who is it from?
Where is the regular postie?
How much does it cost to send this?

[DGP1]

Well that didn't go too badly. The kids watched the Lenny the Letter DVD and then I told them a bit about my day. They then asked me a few questions and that was about it. At least they enjoyed it.

I can't believe they put it on DVD, it's not like RM to be so progressive but at least I was right about Lenny the Letter (which is a relief because I really thought I might have imagined it ).

[TrueBlueTerrier]

but at least I was right about Lenny the Letter (which is a relief because I really thought I might have imagined it ).

Come on even you know with your mind it would be "Lenny the Letcher" if you had imagined it.

[Pinky 1]

Show them the "how do they do that" vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BVHPmGIxBQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Why does the sheep appear at the start?
Did Pinky make the video?

The ewe is Ned's "pet" .......

[arty_morty]

Well that didn't go too badly. The kids watched the Lenny the Letter DVD and then I told them a bit about my day. They then asked me a few questions and that was about it. At least they enjoyed it.

What questions did they ask ?

Where's my giro?
Who is it from?
Where is the regular postie?
How much does it cost to send this?

Considering the area I was in I was expecting Q1 at the very least. Most were along the lines of "will I get any letters?", "where do letters go after they get to my house?" (yes, you read that right), and one from a teacher "why does the postman leave rubber bands outside my house?". I told her that mine did the same and he knows that I'm a postman.

[Lounge Lizard]

Show them the "how do they do that" vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BVHPmGIxBQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I didn't know the mobile phones were still that big in Scotland.