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Doing a chat about job to nursery children

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Postiebear
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Doing a chat about job to nursery children

Post by Postiebear »

Has anyone ever done this and if so any hints and tips, it will be 4yr old children I've agreed to chat to and I've no idea where to start.
Tuffers1875
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Re: Doing a chat about job to nursery children

Post by Tuffers1875 »

Postiebear wrote:Has anyone ever done this and if so any hints and tips, it will be 4yr old children I've agreed to chat to and I've no idea where to start.
Tell em to work hard at school, or they could end up being a postman.
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Re: Doing a chat about job to nursery children

Post by wandle »

Start by telling 'em your name is not Pat, and no, I don't have a black-and-white cat :left:
rick184
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Re: Doing a chat about job to nursery children

Post by rick184 »

Royal Mail used to have an Education Dept who were able to supply giveaways appropriate to the age group. Have a look on the Intranet site.
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Re: Doing a chat about job to nursery children

Post by rehabron »

Postiebear wrote:Has anyone ever done this and if so any hints and tips, it will be 4yr old children I've agreed to chat to and I've no idea where to start.
You have been brought in to chat about your job to assist with their afternoon nap.
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Re: Doing a chat about job to nursery children

Post by rhino49 »

Have a chat with the reception teacher before you do it and turn it into a project for them. Work out what you need to make a mini sorting frame i.e. milk bottle crates and get them to build a post-box or a small post office counter. Bring in a few hi-viz, hats, rec del stickers, P739 cards and any other props your DOM will let you have. Get all the children to prepare a stamped addressed but unsealed envelope for them to post and then prepare a nice letter from the office to deliver to them.

Ask them if they know their local postman and if not try to ascertain which road they are living on and if you know who does the delivery - tell them. Talk about pets and postmen, particularly the relationship with dogs.

Set up the milk crate as a frame with the road they live on labelled so they can "sort a letter" and then if it's permitted arrange for a follow up visit from the school to see your office.

This sort of thing is great for community relations but not so sure that RM are interested in supporting it any more - used to be loads of fun for our office many years ago.
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saddlerposty
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Re: Doing a chat about job to nursery children

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tell them to shut the bloody dog away before they answer the door.
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Re: Doing a chat about job to nursery children

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Tell them to badger their parents to give the poor old postie a tip at chrimbo. :Very Happy
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Re: Doing a chat about job to nursery children

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And tell them not to bother sticking a "No Junk Mail" on their letterbox and explain the correct procedure for opting out.
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ted_e_bear
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Re: Doing a chat about job to nursery children

Post by ted_e_bear »

And tell them to say no bills today please, the postman will then immediately piss himself laughing !
DB1100
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Re: Doing a chat about job to nursery children

Post by DB1100 »

I've done one at a nursery,just waffle on about letters and give them a couple of boxes of D2D's to play with, then call in the next day and hopefully they should be nested together,no seriously kids at that age are great and it's no trouble it's when they get to teenage years they want gassing.
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deristrong
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Re: Doing a chat about job to nursery children

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wandle wrote:Start by telling 'em your name is not Pat, and no, I don't have a black-and-white cat :left:
Unless of course it is and you have.
RTS2
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Re: Doing a chat about job to nursery children

Post by RTS2 »

I've done it a couple of times...it's quite a laugh.I normally bring a story about a postman and get the kids to do some sorting using coloured cards and some boxes with slits cut in them with the corresponding colours.They love it!