Royal Mail’s Summer Challenge!
Royal Mail’s Summer Challenge!
Our summer challenge encourages children to get their thinking caps on, putting pen to paper and getting involved in all aspects of letter and postcard sending.
Creative children can use our pre-designed templates providing a little helping hand with some extra structure, or go wild with a basic outline and space for all their imagination can conjure up! You can also use plain paper.
To help get the creative juices flowing, letter-fan Milan, age 11, and Postie Terry will have weekly videos to tell you about all the fun things, from super stamps to how we put letters inside huge machines to get them from postbox to your letterbox.
Each week, there’s a fun challenge to complete, and a chart to follow your progress to becoming a superstar letter writer, along with big prizes for one lucky winner!
So what are you waiting for? Get involved!
Download the Summer Challenge Chart!pdf, 1.04 MB
Week 1
31st July – 6th August
How to send letters
Milan talks about letters and stamps and Postie Terry tells us about what happens when you put something in the postbox.
For your chance to win one of two £50 gift codes for the Postal Museum Shop!
Design an envelope and send us a photo of you completing the challenge in a DM @royalmailofficial with #SummerChallengeWeek1
Week 1: Design an envelopepdf, 502.66 KB
Week 2
7th August – 13th August
Milan looks at what you might include in a letter and how adding pictures to your letters can make them even more fun! Postie Terry shows us what happens to letters in the Mail Centre.
For your chance to win one of two £50 gift codes for the Postal Museum Shop!
Write a story about your Postie and draw a photo of them! Send us a photo of you completing the challenge in a DM @royalmailofficial with #SummerChallengeWeek2
Week 2: shorter templatepdf, 551.38 KB
Week 2: longer templatepdf, 470.64 KB
Week 3
14th August – 20th August
Milan tells us about people that you could write a letter to, and Postie Terry tells us about all the different types of postbox!
For your chance to win a £100 Amazon e-gift voucher, and a £50 gift code for the Postal Museum’s Online Shop!
Design a postbox and send us a photo of you completing the challenge in a DM @royalmailofficial with #SummerChallengeWeek3
Week 3: postbox templatepdf, 595.28 KB (ready to colour in)
Week 3: blank templatepdf, 500.02 KB (design your postbox from scratch)
Week 4
21st August – 27th August
Milan looks at why we might want to write a letter, and Postie Terry talks about how receiving a letter can make you feel.
For your chance to win a £100 Amazon e-gift voucher, and a £50 gift code for the Postal Museum’s Online Shop!
Send a letter to a relative, friend, or whoever you like! Send us a photo of you completing the challenge in a DM @royalmailofficial with #SummerChallengeWeek4
Week 4: shorter templatepdf, 551.11 KB
Week 4: longer templatepdf, 471.04 KB
Week 5
28th August – 3rd September
Milan talks to us about all the places he enjoys writing to others, and Postie Terry learns more about postcards.
For your chance to win a £100 Amazon e-gift voucher, and a £50 gift code for the Postal Museum’s Online Shop!
Send a postcard – even if it’s from your hometown or to someone far away. Send us a photo of you completing the challenge in a DM @royalmailofficial with #SummerChallengeWeek5
Week 5: shorter templatepdf, 780.75 KB
Week 5: blank templatepdf, 548.77 KB
