Make your teacher's day - enter him or her for one of our special awards. Hundreds of teachers have been nominated in the five years we have run the Kent Teacher of the Year Awards and we have had scores of delighted winners.

The awards mark the vital contribution teachers make to our community. They are organised by the Kent Messenger Group with a number of community partners.

Pupils, parents, teachers, governors, family and friends - anyone can enter a teacher who is worthy of special recognition.

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A panel of judges will select winners in each of the 15 local authority areas. They are Ashford, Bexley, Bromley, Canterbury, Dartford, Dover, Gravesham, Maidstone, Medway, Sevenoaks, Shepway, Swale, Thanet, Tonbridge and Malling and Tunbridge Wells.

The top teachers will be invited to an awards event at the Priestfield banqueting rooms, Gillingham Football Club, on July 2.

Event sponsors include Hays Education, Canterbury Christ Church University, Denne construction, Kent County Council, Pfizer, Gillingham Football Club, Priestfield conference and banqueting services and Mark Pantony technical services.

For more information contact Jane True at the Kent Messenger Group's community and charity team on 01227 475966.