Learning our address
Geography · Early Years · The School
What an address is
An ADDRESS says where you live. It has a house number, a street name, a town and a postcode. Put together, those parts point to one home. There are millions of homes in this country. Miss one part, and a letter might go to the wrong place. Or nowhere at all.
Why an address matters
A postie uses your address to find your home. It is one home among thousands of others. An ambulance uses it too, if someone is hurt. A visitor uses it to find you for the first time. With no address, none of them would know where to go.
Learning your own
Say your own street name out loud. Say your house or flat number too. Say the name of your town. Grown-ups know their whole address by heart. That is because they have said it so many times. It is just like knowing your own name.
A letter posted to you moves in steps. First it goes to a big sorting spot. Your postcode sends it towards your town. Then it is sorted again, this time by street. Next a postie walks your street. They check house numbers, one by one. At last it reaches your door — the number on the front matches the one on the letter. Each step used a different part of your address.