Join The Railway Children
A self-paced 6-week pre-recorded for students reading The Railway Children.
£5 per week - £25 for all 6 weeks
Printable resources
Worksheets and activity sheets to print for every lesson.
6 video lessons
Pre-recorded lessons to watch whenever suits — as many times as you like.
Watch any time
Instant access on any device — pause, rewind and rewatch at your own pace.
The book we’re reading
When their father is suddenly taken away one night, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis leave their comfortable London home and move with their mother to a little house called Three Chimneys, in the Yorkshire countryside beside a railway line.
The railway quickly becomes the heart of their new life — waving to the trains each morning, befriending Perks the station porter and the kind Old Gentleman who rides the 9:15, and stumbling into real adventure: flagging down a train before a landslide, rescuing a baby from a burning barge, and helping a stranger stranded far from home.
It's a warm, exciting story about courage, kindness and family — and the quiet mystery of what really happened to Father. A gentle classic that rewards slow reading and big feelings, with one of the most famous endings in all of children's books.
Week One
'In the beginning'
Meet the Author: Edith Nesbit
Context and Background
Chapters 1-3
Week Two
Show Don't TellStory Mountain/ Freytag's Pyramid (applied to Railway Children)
Extension: Write about your favourite character
Week Three
Trivia
Characters
Types of characters: dynamic, static, flat, round
Setting
Week Four
Review of Setting
Themes
What is a Theme, understanding themes
Themes in The Railway Children
How to make a Themes Collage
Week Five
What are Values
Values in context
Values examples in TRC
How to write a newspaper article
Week Six
Literary Devices
Types of poetry:
Haiku
Cinquain
Acrostic