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The Life and Death of Amy Johnson - a talk by Jane Delamaine

1st November 2024
Venue: Kingston Village Hall
1st November -The Life and Death of Amy Johnson - an illustrated talk by Jane Delamaine, Director, The Amy Johnson Project, Herne Bay.
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Dinner meeting with John Bennett - The Story of my Uncle's Experiences in WW2

12th November 2024
Venue: Howfield Manor Hotel
12th November, Remembrance Week Dinner meeting with local author John Bennett.
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Children’s Christmas Writing Competition

Entries for this competition were invited from all the primary schools within the Canterbury area.

Pupils were asked to write an original story with a Christmas theme, unaided and in their own handwriting. We were looking for interesting and imaginative stories. Quality and range of expression, spelling, grammar and handwriting were to be taken into account, making due allowance for the age of the author. The story could be neatly presented on one side of A4 paper, comprise around 100 words and could be decorated. The Stories were judged separately for each of the six national curriculum primary school years and prizes were awarded to each year.

Schools were requested to undertake some initial selection of entries and to submit the best three stories in each year. The overall winners were awarded a prize of book tokens to the value of £20.00 and the runner-up a prize of book tokens to the value of £15.00.

We were amazed at the quality of entries submitted and the judges had a very difficult job deciding the winners. Thanks are due to Margaret, Mary, Peter and Dee for acting as judges.

Rotary President Martin Ward (with chain) and Alan Mepstead (centre) had the very pleasant task of visiting all the winning schools and presenting the prizes at their school assemblies.

Congratulations to Blean, St Stephens, and St Johns Primary schools and to Kent College Junior school on their winning entries.

The children’s names are (left to right): Victor, Marcelo and Freya. The other standing adults are Stephen Pywell, Head Teacher at St Stephens and Karina Philip, Literacy Coordinator.

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