The Right Track

“Sustainability means looking after our environment now so that people can enjoy it in the future.”

That was the jumbled sentence that the Platform team presented to Elmbridge school students at the start of their Sustainability workshops this week.

3 classes of year 3 students from Elmbridge Primary travelled, over the course of the week, from Gloucester station to Worcester Foregate Street for a workshop in The Pod in Worcester.

Once there, the students explored the theme of sustainability – linking to their classroom learning  – with Emilie and Imogen from Platform. The workshop involved looking at the history of travel, thinking about positives and negatives of different types of transport, and designing their own examples of sustainable transport for the future.

Some students were brave enough to get up and share their inventions with the group.

All of the inventions were fantastic, innovative, and sustainable; the future is in good hands with students like these.

Alison Petticrew, a teacher from Elmbridge School, said: “My class of children were buzzing with excitement, interest and curiosity after working with Emilie during the initial rail safety visit to school. Our rail travel from Gloucester to Worcester Foregate Street allowed the children to experience safe train travel – over 50% of the class had never been on a train before. The children were excited to be able to apply the rail safety skills. All of the children engaged fully in the tasks that they were given. A super day. Many thanks to all involved.”

The team also took the opportunity to read a new rail safety book – There and Back – to the students at the station whilst waiting for the train.

Students were delighted to be given their own copy of the book to take home.