With the support of Agrium Crop Production Services and CN, we have been able to offer an engaging rail safety program in 2016.
This in-depth program has two components:
1. An elementary School based component where Kindergarten through Grade 6 educators provide rail safety curriculum to their students in the classroom. Following the in class lessons, Kindergarten through Grade 6 students drew pictures which depicted a concept or message they learned abour rail safety. (September 1st, 2016 to October 1st, 2016)
2. A community component where artwork submissions from participating schools were judged in three categories and winning artwork submissions were used to create three styles of paper placemats which include rail safety messages, website links and activities to be shared within the region. These placemats were distributed to participating area restaurants to be used and displayed during the month of November 2016 which has been knows as “Safe Crossings” month.
The artists of the favorite pictures win an iPod Shuffle (3 categories of winners;K-Grade 2, Grade 3-4, Grade 5-6)
Thank you to the following schools for participating:
- Bruno School
- Englefeld School
- Muenster School
- Watson School
- Humboldt Public School
- St. Dominic School
Thank you to the Humboldt SADD Chapter for working with us to judge and choose the winning artwork in each category. Thank you to the CN Police Service Constable Olsen who joined us at the schools for additional educational presentations and to help award the prizes to the lucky winners! Thank you to Schulte Industries for their donation to the program and to Graphic Ad for supplying the paper used to create the artwork by participating students.
