Young actors and dancers from Maplesden Noakes School have performed in public as part of Mental Health Awareness Week.

Some shoppers stopped and formed a crowd to watch performances at Fremlin Walk in Maidstone today.

Teacher Hayley Fraser-Thompson said: "Our performance was all about body image.

"We've done lots of performances here before so we're quite a well known school for taking part and doing things out in the community."

Year 12 drama students from the Great Buckland Road school started the show at lunchtime by performing a piece to This Is Me from The Greatest Showman.

Then pupils from Year 7 to Year 13 followed up with a dance to songs including Jess Glyne's Thursday.

Mrs Fraser-Thompson added: "They're all really brave, we didn't have that long to create the pieces either.

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"We were emailed only two weeks ago asking us to get something together.

"We created it in about an hour and it came out looking really good."

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