Road safety education update

Download the rail safety education resource

Kia ora,

You’re among the first to access our new rail safety education resource to help teach children and teenagers the essentials of crossing train tracks safely.

Photos and text cover the key points with activities for you to do in the classroom to reinforce learning. Released for Rail Safety Week, August 2024.

Rail safety presentation and activities

More about the resource

Aimed especially at Years 5-10, the age band when young people are increasingly making their own way to and from school.

It’s an important stage to check their knowledge and help them fill in the gaps.

The presentation has an emphasis on level pedestrian crossings, where people need to stop, look and listen before walking across the tracks. 

Available as PowerPoint and PDF

The resource includes classroom activities so students can put their new knowledge into action and make it stick.

Activities include:

• designing a poster
• writing a report
• wordsearch
• quiz questions about signs and train facts.

Rail Safety Week is very soon

The rail safety education PowerPoint and PDF resource will be officially launched during Rail Safety Week, 5-11 August.

Rail Safety Week is a nationwide event coordinated by charity TrackSAFE Foundation, with NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi as a key sponser.

Teachers can access all of our rail safety resources on the Education Portal.

Rail safety resources