Fantastic Scholasticâs bumper donation for Busterâs Book Club
Published: 08:20, 22 February 2021
A Kent childrenâs charity is celebrating a bumper donation from publisher Scholastic Ltd worth more than £1,000.
KM Charity Team mascot Buster Bug with the books donated by Scholastic Ltd.
The KM Charity Team, which supports schools with child health and wellbeing initiatives, was gifted 188 books to award to young readers.
The books will be allocated as prizes for participants of the charityâs Busterâs Book Club reading programme, which encourages pupils to spend more time reading for pleasure.
âThis is fantastic news, we really canât thank Scholastic enough!â said Kay Devine, literacy lead at the KM Charity Team. âBusterâs is all about sparking excitement for reading and rewarding children for their efforts, so this donation will help us to spread the joy of reading far and wide.â
Buster s Book Club Christmas Special
Published: 06:07, 18 December 2020
Best-selling childrenâs author Nick Butterworth has brought an early dose of Christmas cheer to a Medway school.
Children from Giraffe Class at St Peter s Infants, Rochester with their signed copy of One Snowy Night.
Pupils from St Peterâs Infant School in Rochester won the final reading challenge of the year staged by the KM Charity Team as part of Busterâs Book Club.
Giraffe Classâs prize was a video of the multi-award-winning author and illustrator reading his cosy tale One Snowy Night â plus a signed copy of the book.
The children were thrilled that Mr Butterworth aptly included a drawing of a giraffe next to his dedication and signature.
Search and rescue team wins school science contest
The Bright Spark Awards 2020 contest has revealed the most enterprising young scientists in Kent schools.
Bright Spark Awards Champions 2020: Submersible Search and Rescue System Team from Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys, Canterbury.
Organisations judging the youngstersâ entries were Pfizer â whose COVID-19 vaccine in collaboration with BioNTech began its UK rollout out last week â along with Kent Renewable Energy, Integrated Technologies Ltd (ITL), Discovery Park, BAE Systems Rochester, Global Associates, Megger, Golding Homes, and EDF Energy.
The Bright Spark Awards Championsâ Trophy and £500 cash prize went to a group from Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys in Canterbury. They designed a Submersible Search and Rescue System to detect debris or bodies in the water, narrowing the search area and cutting response time for accidents in open water.