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Theme
We could be heroes...
Heroes come in all shapes and sizes, and our individual choice of hero can be a deeply personal thing. Many children, when asked who their hero is, will often answer with a celebrity or sports personality. Sadly, when it comes to heroes, it seems to take longer to think of the people closest to us, who touch our lives everyday.
The everyday heroes - the people whose very presence we take for granted, these are the very people who do not ask for recognition, but without whom our lives would be so much more the poorer. Motivating and inspiring, the local hero endeavours to make other people feel special and often will put others before themselves.
So who are these men and women? From lollipop ladies to librarians, from teachers to taxi-drivers, from parents to peers, your local hero could be anyone.
Talking about Heroes
Write A Letter Week, 2008 will be celebrating the ‘local hero' theme, by encouraging children to compose letters to their heroes. Here are some tips to help your child begin to think about their local hero:
- Ask them what they actually think a hero is, and what makes a person a hero. Ask them to list some characteristics.
- Ask them to think about a person who is special to them and why. If they struggle to think of a special person, ask some open questions to guide them such as ‘‘who is an important person in your life?' ‘Why is that person important to you?'
- Encourage your child to think about the people they see everyday and what their lives may be like.
- Try not to put answers in their mouths!
- Ask them to think of describing words or sentences about their local hero and start to write some down together.
Write a Letter Week 2008
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