The Jolly Christmas Postman (The Jolly Postman)

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Janet and Allan Ahlberg's popular story of The Jolly Postman is brought to life in these imaginative learning resources for early years, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2, created with The Postal Museum. The resource The Jolly Postman follows an unnamed mail carrier as he delivers letters by bicycle to characters from traditional children's stories that are well known in Britain. Following each sheet of narrative verse and illustration, there is one shaped like an envelope and containing one of the postman's deliveries. Each envelope is opened and its enclosure read at that point in the story.

All our teaching materials and resources are teacher-created. A Twinkl membership gives you access to trusted content to inspire great lessons and engage your learners. Ideas for The Jolly Christmas Postman Planning for Year 1 pupils: For the 'Something a little different...' section, your pupils could role-play being at the post office and posting their Christmas cards. If you want to take a deeper look at ' The Jolly Christmas Postman' storybook, then we recommend that you go through each chapter of the story with this beautifully illustrated PowerPoint. This is a great resource to introduce children to the characters and themes of this brilliant festive tale. We've also made sure to include a variety of resources that you can incorporate in core lessons such as maths and English. A good example of this is this Jolly Christmas Postman-themed number counting worksheet, which you can use to add a dash of festivity to your end of term maths lessons. Alternatively, you could also incorporate our range of word searches and word mats to help your pupils practice their spelling.

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The Jolly Christmas Postman is a children's storybook. It was written by Janet and Allan Ahlberg in 1991. It’s derived from the original storybook written in 1986 'The Jolly Postman' as a follow-up. This is a great way to build cross-curricular links across your teaching. You can use these The Jolly Christmas Postman planning ideas for Year 1 to structure your lessons and produce a thorough plan for your teaching on this lovely book.

This fantastic resource includes ideas for lessons, as well as suggestions for activities that you can use to enrich those lessons. It also covers each of the seven areas of the EYFS curriculum, so you don't have to worry about missing any important areas.

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The Jolly Postman learning resource provides activities to bring literacy learning to life in the classroom, making links between the fictional narrative of The Jolly Postman and the real history of the postal service. The above video may be from a third-party source. We accept no responsibility for any videos from third-party sources. Please let us know if the video is no longer working. The Jolly Christmas Postman story, (and these resources too!), includes the perfect chance to build on children's awareness of rhyming words. Children can be encouraged to find words that rhyme within the story, by how they sound the same. This makes it great for phonics teaching, too! What is The Jolly Christmas Postman? As you can see, there are plenty of ways that you can include The Jolly Christmas Postman in your teaching, no matter the subject. Children will love the festive theme and be engaged and excited to learn.

With this lovely collection of enhancement ideas, you’ll be able to deliver the much-loved Jolly Christmas Postman to EYFS with ease! Watch the first minute of this video of Allan Ahlberg talking about how he and Janet got the idea for the book from their daughter playing with the post. Where do you get ideas for stories? The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters is an interactive children's picture book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. The innovative project required five years to complete, and much discussion with both the publisher Heinemann and the printer before it was issued in 1986. The first subject heading assigned by WorldCat is "Toy and movable books". Little, Brown published a U.S. edition in the same year.

Now you've got all your Jolly Christmas Postman planning ideas all in one place thanks to this resource, it's time to start planning out your individual lesson plans. Don't worry, we've got you covered on this front too. With easy-to-digest content, children can carry on living the tale through lovely spin-offs of the original story - it’ll be a story that never ends!