Education

Go Train for Primary Schools in Berkshire and Surrey

The Go Train programme, which is delivered by Southeast Community Rail Partnership and Great Western Railway, will help your pupils develop confidence and skills for safe, independent travel on public transport to secondary school.  It provides your pupils with the skills to plan journeys, purchase tickets, and use rail services safely and confidently.  It also promotes sustainable travel.  It is aimed at Year 6 pupils and is free of charge.

There are three topics available

Planning your journey and staying safe on the railway

Planning your journey and staying safe on the railway

This free, interactive workshop, delivered by our Education Officer in your classroom, is for Year 6 pupils. The workshop is 1.5 hours and covers:

  • Using maps – using compass points to describe the location of things on a map
  • Reading a paper timetable and using a mobile app – pupils will learn how to read a paper timetable, remember this may appear on their SATs exams! Will include platforms signs and detaching trains
  • What to pack for your journey? An activity for the pupils to list everything they would need to pack for a train journey if they were travelling without their parents
  • Staying safe – at stations, on the train and personal safety. It also includes level crossings
  • Help! Talk about finding help when travelling e.g. staff, signs onboard the train, help points or apps
  • What If?… Activity – pupils are given different scenarios that they may encounter when they travel on the train. How will they deal with them

This workshop can be combined with the ‘Railway Careers’ workshop.
This workshop can be delivered via Zoom.
To book your free workshop please contact Maddy Mills, Education Officer maddy@southeastcrp.org / 07852 221274

Railway Careers

Railway Careers

This free, interactive workshop, delivered by our Education Officer in your classroom, is for Year 6 pupils. The workshop is  30 minutes and covers:

  • Mind Map activity – how many railway jobs do you know already?
  • Guess their job – using the Skills Builder essential skills pupils must guess the job
  • Salaries – discussion about the average salary and how much a train driver earns
  • Apprenticeships – 2 short videos about apprentices

This workshop can be combined with ‘Planning your Journey and Staying Safe on the Railway’ workshop.

This workshop can be delivered via Zoom.
To book your free workshop please contact Maddy Mills, Education Officer maddy@southeastcrp.org / 07852 221274

Station visit & train ride

Station visit & train ride

Following the Planning Your Journey and Staying Safe classroom workshop your Year 6 pupils can visit their local train station and take a free return trip on a train (usually to the next station).  Please allow several hours for this visit which will include four or five activities including:
• a platform visit (with a reminder on safety on the railways)
• buying a ticket from a machine
• a station inspection activity
• a station quiz
The train ride could be used to deliver other areas of your curriculum (e.g. schools have used the train ride as part of an Evacuation Day experience).
‘Take a trip on a train’ is an activity in the Department for Education’s Year 6 Activity Passport
To book your free station visit and train ride please contact Maddy Mills, Education Officer maddy@southeastcrp.org / 07852 221274

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