Rail education & free train trips for your pupils

Platform are an amazing new rail-education programme who deliver free rail trips combined with rail workshops.

Since April this year, Platform have delivered free rail education to 2000 students, and have taken nearly 500 students, and their teachers, on free train trips. They have a range of destination options and free onward learning opportunities which can be tailored to fit in with what your students are learning in school.

They bring schools an opportunity to increase cultural capital for students, whilst educating them about rail travel, sustainable travel, and rail careers (all whilst hopefully having a lovely day out by train). Platform was setup by Severnside, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and TransWilts Community Rail Partnerships.

Check out their fun map of the West of England, which clearly indicates which activities and resources can be linked to different stations.

You can book in with Platform by contacting info@raileducation.org.uk or calling Emilie Dawson on 07464953914

Benefits of engaging with Platform:

• A qualified teacher from Platform coming into your school to deliver a free workshop
• A free ‘rail familiarisation trip’ for your children, which Platform could tie in with a lovely, free, educational day out
• Free teacher CPD on the new sustainable education curriculum guidance
• Use of the website with rail related resources (tailored to be geographically local to schools but heavily curriculum focused – we know time is tight)

If you would like to find out more about Platform’s work with schools, and read some case studies, you can do so here: https://platformrail.org/all-aboard-for-schools-across-the-south-west/”

Linking to Curiosity

You can even book a train trip through Platform to Bristol Parkway or Filton Abbey Wood and come to the University of the West of England’s Frenchay campus to get a free engineering workshop, before heading back on the train.

Contact Platform’s Emilie or curiousityconnections@uwe.ac.uk to arrange this double whammy – university and rail experience – all in one school trip.