Network Rail Safety Campaign

In January, Network Rail contacted us to raise awareness of the risks to children and youths related to negligence near trains.

Their campaign has been developed in relation to the tragic death of Harrison Ballantyne in 2017, when he was in Year 7 at Guilsborough Academy.

Over 20 million students, parents and teachers from across the UK have watched these videos which has led to a significant decrease in the number of fatalities and injuries in their area through watching the safety videos.

Below is the link to the videos we showed in school so you, as parents can watch them at home.

Y3 & Y4 pupils watched- NEW Primary school version: Suitable for KS1 https://learnliveuk.com/ks1-primary-school-safety-talk/  This video uses a railway safety story book to support their understanding of how to keep safe near the railway. The children participated with the Learn Live broadcast discussion/ question part of the video that Y5 & Y6 used below.

Y5 & Y6 pupils watched- NEW Primary school version: Suitable for KS2 https://learnliveuk.com/network-rail-primary-school-safety-talk  This video includes a re-enactment of how Harrison died followed by a Learn Live broadcast discussion/ question session.

 

We have just been informed that as a school we have achieved the achieved the Rail Safe Friendly Bronze Level.

 

 

We now would like to look towards achieving the Silver level.

For this we will be promoting the Switched On Rail Safety website on our social media channels.

The link for you to access this is: https://switchedonrailsafety.co.uk/