Pupils won the chance to get up close and personal with birds of prey after taking the top spot in a walk to school challenge. Faversham-based providers of falconry and archery experiences Joe’s Bows brought an assortment of birds to green travel champs St Edward’s Catholic...

  Maidstone Borough Council is taking the lead with an exciting new school science initiative focusing on the quality of the local environment. The Clean Air for Schools campaign is a simple, hands-on and low-cost scheme that gives children an active role in monitoring local...

  Medway Council is leading an exciting schools science project designed to raise awareness of the impact of traffic on air quality and public health.  Starting this term, the Clean Air for Schools initiative, which is supported by the KM Charity Team, will explore the impact of...

  An environmentally-conscious schoolboy was guest of honour for Kent Cricket Club’s victory over Somerset in the Royal London One-Day Cup. Oliver Glewis, a Year 3 pupil at Whitstable Junior School, was mascot for the day at Canterbury’s St Lawrence Ground after winning a green...

Goodness me it is exhausting organising a meet and greet for someone famous! My name is Ted and I’m the best friend Phil Gallagher, who you will know better as Mister Maker. I try to help out whenever I can because it’s just so much fun. Last week I helped organise a...

  Judges of kids’ kitchen contest Young Cooks got the full Masterchef treatment at the competition’s summer relaunch. They joined Pieter van Zyl in the Deal kitchen of his Chequers Kitchen...

  With less than three days left till the competition deadline, young scientists from Simon Langton Girls’ Grammar School have submitted an ambitious project for the Bright Spark Awards. There’s...

It was concerning, if not entirely surprising, to read the warning from the Local Government Association last month that the government would “miss a chance to transform the nation’s health” if it didn’t provide more funding for leisure centres. The association, which represents...