A roadshow promoting green travel to school was in Kent high streets this week. Staff from Specsavers greeted families shopping in town centres to promote the walk to school campaign, which is close to hitting its target of removing 200,000 school-run car journeys this academic...

  Pupils involved in the walk to school campaign have a chance to be named a mascot of Kent Cricket Club. Construction company and cricket club sponsor WW Martin Ltd is supporting the green travel campaign and working with the KM Charity Team to stage a special challenge event to...

Arts and crafts hero Mister Maker delighted pupils at Langdon Primary School with a colourful tale after they won a countywide competition. The popular children’s television presenter brought laughter and smiles when he read The Day The Crayons Quit, by Drew Daywalt and Oliver...

Chipper children at a Sevenoaks school have relaunched their walking bus and rediscovered the joys of a brisk stroll to school. Pupils from Riverhead Infants’ School, in Worships Hill, walk to school with older children from Amherst Junior School, in Witches’ Lane opposite. The...

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...

Schools making extra-special efforts to spark a love of literacy only have until this Friday, April 27 to enter the Kent Literacy Awards. The annual awards event celebrates schools’ success in...

Technology is often blamed for the demise of the printed word – but can IT actually help children learn to read? The Kent Literacy Awards are looking for schools who think it can. The annual...

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...