Whilst many parents will be looking online for activities for children to do incase of school closures, Community Rail Lancashire have decided to publish some rail-related activities which link to the National Curriculum.
Useful Downloads
- Reasoning Express Booklet
- From a Railway Carriage - Write your own Version
- Design your own Trainbow
- Train Maths
- Stay safe with Thomas comprehension
- Train Number Puzzle
- Northern's Rainbow Train poster
Links
- Creative At Home with CRL
- Kids in the Kitchen
- Rail Week Activities
- Young Great Westerners Activities
- Network Rail Activities
- London Transport Museum
- Early Years Ideas
- Network Rail Careers
- Peter's Railway Resources
- Stay Safe with Thomas e-book
- Scotrail Activities
- Bluebell Railway Activities for Children
The websites in the links are great for learning about the railway industry. There are many free, downloadable activities to learn about safety, history and careers.
Have you got a train set somewhere in the house? As well as designing your own railway, maybe you could:
- Design some bridges to go over the track using junk
- Design new stations along the route
- Make a rail safety video explaining how to use level crossings
- Make rail tickets for passengers using your railway
Can you think of any more? Tell us…
From a Railway Carriage was a poem written by Robert Louis Stephenson in 1885. Watch the video below to find out the meaning of some of the vocabulary in it. Then have a go at writing your own version (worksheet in the downloads section)
See the activities in our Reasoning Express programme that link maths to the railway.
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