Volunteers from Siemens Mobility’s Goole Rail Village have completed a makeover of the playground at Kingsway Primary School in Goole. The project created an outdoor learning environment and play space, designed to inspire learning, promote wellbeing, and reinforce Siemens Mobility’s commitment to the local community and STEM engagement. Siemens Mobility donated over £2,000 for raw materials, and a team of 10 volunteers completed building and joinery work over a week during the school holidays.
Natalie Thornton, Operations Support Manager at Siemens Mobility, said:
"The project aims to encourage children at a very young age to be excited by STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects, simply through having fun. The areas, from the wormery to the water play, ignite interest in sustainability, science, and engineering concepts, while promoting safety and creativity."
The makeover took place in the Year 1 playground at the school, which has over 400 pupils. New features include a construction zone, a gardening patch with a wormery and insect hotel, an outdoor library, and a theatre for teaching and performance. Additional installations comprise a mud kitchen, sandpit train, waterfall, weather vane, rain gauge, and thermometer. This initiative is the latest example of Siemens Mobility’s community engagement close to their Goole Rail Village, a state-of-the-art facility which represents an investment of up to £240 million. The facility is assembling tube trains for Transport for London’s Piccadilly line and is where Siemens Mobility also intends to assemble battery bi-mode trains for the UK rail network.
Maddy Barker, Siemens Mobility Operations Support Assistant and project leader, said:
“Creating Kingsway Primary School’s new outdoor learning space has been a truly rewarding experience. As someone who has lived in Goole all my life, I’m passionate about giving back to the community I call home.
“This project is a great example of Siemens Mobility’s ongoing commitment to making a positive impact locally and I’m proud of the way our team came together to support such a meaningful initiative.”
The Year 1 teaching team at Kingsway Primary School said:
“Thanks to the generous donations to our outdoor learning area, the children have experienced a noticeable boost in their development across several key areas.
“With more space to explore, create and collaborate, the children have shown increased independence, resilience and joy in their learning. The freedom to engage with nature and each other has nurtured their curiosity, motivation and ability to concentrate – core characteristics of effective learning.”
Over the past five years, Siemens Mobility has also engaged with almost 30 schools, more than 2,000 primary school children and 80 teachers through an annual education programme in partnership with national charity, Primary Engineer, involving a series of workshops delivered by Siemens Mobility’s volunteer STEM Ambassadors.
17 Dec 2025
Siemens Volunteers Complete Goole Primary School Playground Makeover
• Siemens Mobility volunteers complete a makeover at Kingsway Primary School in Goole
• Outdoor learning and play space created to inspire learning and promote wellbeing
• Project reinforces Siemens Mobility’s commitment to local community and STEM engagement
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- Siemens Mobility is investing up to £240 million in the Goole Rail Village, a site that spans 67 acres, the size of 35 football pitches. London Underground’s new Piccadilly line trains will be assembled at Goole before they start entering passenger service in 2026.
- Overall, Siemens Mobility’s investment will bring up to 1,000 new jobs to the East Riding of Yorkshire, as well as around 1,700 supply chain opportunities, promoting localisation and helping to serve other global markets by 2030.
- The Goole Rail Village is a fully integrated rail hub, consisting of the Train Manufacturing Facility which assembles and commissions trains, the Components Facility where Siemens maintains gearboxes, traction motors and other parts for train and tram fleets, the Logistics Centre warehousing facility, and the Rail Accelerator and Innovation Solutions hub for Enterprise (RaisE) business centre. With additional investment of up to £40 million, all of this will be joined by a Bogie Assembly and Service Centre, currently under construction, which will incorporate and expand Siemens Mobility’s current capabilities to overhaul bogies from UK trains.
- Siemens Mobility has supported the local supply chain wherever possible, contracting Leeds-based GMI Construction for the build of the Goole factory, Components Facility and the warehouse. The GMI supply chain is based entirely in the UK with over 70% of it based in Yorkshire. Several components for the Piccadilly line trains will also come from local Yorkshire and UK suppliers, such as the exterior lighting from LPA Lighting, just 25 miles away from the Goole factory.
- More information can be found at www.siemens.co.uk/goole
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