TrackSAFE Education

Safety Town now features rail safety!

Great news for NSW teachers! The road safety program for primary schools, ‘Safety Town’, was recently updated to include rail safety content, including tram tracks and level crossings. You’ll now see this awesome rail safety content integrated into Safety Town across all stages. We worked in collaboration with Transport for NSW Centre for Road Safety, with endorsement from the NSW Department of Education, Catholic Schools and Association of Independent Schools to make this happen. We hope this gives students another avenue to learn how to be safe near trains, trams and tracks whilst travelling to and from school, on weekends, and when travelling with families during school holidays.

Visit Safety Town to view and download the resources.

Wow! Over the past 4 years, 254,000 school students have experienced learning with our online resources. We’ve had nearly 50,000 page vies on our website, and 8500 of our resources have been downloaded. 6000 teachers got their students involved with Rail Safety Week through our competitions and other activities. We’re thrilled that so many school students have experienced quality rail safety education!

Join Thomas and Friends for a very special 75th birthday celebration on 12th & 13th August 2020 for Rail Safety Week!

Now in its 9th year, TrackSAFE with Thomas and Friends is a rail safety education event for 2-5 year olds, sponsored by Sydney Trains, NSW TrainLink, Transport Heritage NSW and Trybooking.

Tickets will be available approximately 3 weeks before the event. Secure your tickets via the Sydney Trains website.

Are you game to do the Baby Shark Crossing Safety Challenge for #RSW2020?

Our YouTube clip shows some amazing examples…preschools and schools can make a whole learning experience out of it – check out our accompanying resources.

We have designed a fantastic kit to help support rail staff to do visits to primary school classrooms. Designed by a teacher, it contains everything you need to make your school visit fun and interesting for students, while at the same time helping them to learn how to stay safe near trains, trams and tracks. No death by PowerPoint here! Order yours today.

Keep an eye out for an exciting new challenge coming soon…can you guess what it might be? 😉

The serious injury rates for pedestrians seriously injured in a collision with a train show that 35% are young people aged 0-24 years old.

Let’s work together to reduce these statistics to zero! Education is one very important part of the solution.

Source: Henley, G. & Harrison, J.E. (2017). Serious unintentional injury involving a railway train or tram, Australia, 2009–10 to 2013–14. (Injury Research and Statistics Series no. 101. Cat. no. INJCAT 177). Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

There are over 23,500 level crossings in Australia. You can help keep your students safe near level crossings by using our resources in your classroom.

Have a look at our Learning Resource Centre for lots of great lessons.

Rail Safety Week is nearly upon us! Order your DIY School Visit Kit today.