Post Office Play

We recently learned all about the important work done at the post office and by the people who deliver the post every day.  The school post person, Bernie, came and told us all about her work.  She explained how she starts work really early in the morning and sorts the mail into different boxes, depending on what part of Schull they must go to.  Then she loads up her van and gets to work.  She told us about the little cart she has for wheeling the post around the village and told us of how important it is for her to wear her high-vis vest on dark mornings and evenings.

We set up our own post office in the classroom and took turns being the postmaster,  postmistress,   post person and customers.  Customers wrote letters and filled in forms and the people in the post office weighed and stamped the letters.  Once the letters were in the postbox, the post person collected them and sorted them for delivery.  It was great fun.

The creative table made a post box for the post office and a mail train for taking the post to Dublin!

The construction area produced lots of great lego models of post offices and post vans.

Here are some pictures of us busy at work!

Thanks very much to Bernie for paying us a visit!

Our busy post office!

Customers filled out forms!

we used weighing scales to weigh letters.

Making the post box.

We used stencils to paint on the An Post logo.

The post box had to be emptied every day!

Luckily, we had a sorting office for sorting all that post!

Making the mail train!

The mail train with driver!

Taking the post to Dublin!

Look at this fantastic post van!

The post office!

Another marvellous creation by one of our master builders!!