Postcard activity at Ysgol Hendrefelin (Wales)

Pupils across all key stages at Ysgol Hendrefelin are participating in the postcard activity as part of HOTW: Can You See What I Say?

They have been really excited to receive postcards from schools across Europe and the wider world and all staff are pleased as it fits so well into the new revised curriculum for Wales and the strand of global citizenship. Literacy, digital competency, creativity and social communication skills are also covered within this fantastic activity.

So far, we have received postcards from St Rose of Lima Primary School in Glasgow, Birkhill Primary School in Dundee, Francis Olive Anderson Primary in Lincolnshire, Josef Atila Primary School in Hungary and Kindergarten of Mayrothalassol in Greece.

We have also sent postcards to Dundee University in Scotland, Szkola Podstawawa w Czersku in Poland, Obroshyno Lev Shankovsky School in the Ukraine, Ploske School in the Ukraine, Duncow Primary School in Scotland, Francis Olive Anderson Primary School in England, Dunbarney Primary School in Scotland and Jeanne D'Arc Primary School in Greece. 

As we start our activities for St David's Day on March 1st - our National Day in Wales, we started to think about what we could do to link to the Postcard activity. Pupils in Year 11 suggested that we make our own postcards to send to schools instead of buying them which is quite expensive.

Within each class, we talked about Wales, our national emblems, what makes us proud to be Welsh and how we could put that on to a postcard. We looked at postcards on the Internet to get ideas and then all classes started their art work. 

We were really pleased with the outcomes. All pupils, from all year groups and all abilities took part in this activity - we wanted to make it fully inclusive and we hope that should you be one of the lucky schools to receive a postcard from us, you will appreciate the time and effort that each individual pupil put into designing and creating their card.

Here are a selection of the cards pupils have produced so far... we are aiming to produce as many cards as possible around St David's Day so that we have a collection ready to send out over the duration of the project.

It has made all pupils proud of their heritage.....