Welcome to the Letter Link website
To coincide with the 2010 Commonwealth Games in October, Australia Post will once again be running its popular Letter Link program.
Letter Link, which was first established for the 1992 Olympic Games, encourages school children across the country to write to Australian athletes in Delhi. It provides a wonderful opportunity for students to practise their writing skills while helping to boost the spirits of our athletes.
On this website you will find primary and secondary lesson ideas and student activity sheets covering all learning areas, interesting facts about the Commonwealth Games, information about two Australian athletes competing in Delhi and a facility to order your free Letter Link envelopes.
The write your letter section has a letter writing interactive which allows students to write their letter on line and then print it out and mail it. There are two other fun and engaging student interactives, ideal for use on an interactive whiteboard (IWB), which will help students review their Commonwealth Games knowledge, and test their memories.
This year, Letter Link is running a competition just for teachers. For more information, see the teacher resource booklet in the education resource pack, or the teacher competition details section.
Order your FREE Letter Link education resource pack here!
The pack contains:
- an eight-page teacher resource
- two posters for your classroom
- some sample Letter Link envelopes
- a "Go Go goes for gold" animation on CD. "Go Go goes for gold" is a fun and entertaining animation that is ideal for introducing your class to the Letter Link program
- a reply-paid envelope for competition entries.
Some printable colour and black and white images of Go Go (the Letter Link lizard) have also been provided for primary students to use in projects and letter writing activities - found at the end of the PDFs in the "Lesson and activity ideas" section.
We hope you will decide to participate in Letter Link 2010 with your class. You can be assured that Australian athletes will be delighted to receive letters of support and encouragement from your students.