Educational leaders are set to receive well-deserved recognition at the Kent Teacher of the Year Awards.

And there’s still time – just – to submit nominations before tomorrow’s deadline.

One organisation that is particularly keen to see nominations for school governors and principals is first-time judge Kape HR.

Peter Jacobs, founder and director of the Chatham-based HR consultancy, said: “Kape HR are very proud to be joining the judging panel for Kent Teacher of the Year.

“We are an HR consultancy, so we provide a lot of HR support, advice and guidance to head teachers, chairs of governors and other management roles within schools.”

The awards are organised by the KM Charity Team, and have separate categories for primary, secondary and further education.

Awards coordinator Karen Brinkman said: “It’s probably fair to say that school and college leaders are more concerned with celebrating other people’s achievements than their own, but it cannot be overestimated what a central role they have on children’s educational outcomes.

“So I would urge people – colleagues, parents, community leaders and even pupils – to submit Teacher of the Year awards nominations for school and college governors and principals by the deadline of 12pm on Friday.”

The other judging organisations for the awards are Kent, Greenwich and Canterbury Christ Church universities, Ashford International Hotel, Three R’s Teacher Recruitment, Kreston Reeves, Social Enterprise Kent, Loop CR, Kent Sport and Physical Education, Salus, Diggerland, Kent Further Education, Medway Youth Trust, KCS, Towergate Insurance, The Education People, EduKit, Kent and Medway councils and Hornby.

They will select winners from each of Kent and Medway’s 13 local authority areas, as well as for the whole county as a whole.

Submit nominations, find out more and download a best-practice brochure detailing last year’s winners at kentteacheroftheyear.co.uk.

And watch a video in which Mr Jacobs speaks about the awards here: