Pupils at a Medway primary were rewarded to free-entry vouchers for a top Kent visitor attraction after excelling in reading reward scheme Buster’s Book Club.

The children at St Peter’s Infants School in Rochester were presented with the vouchers for Diggerland during a special assembly attended by Diana Hill of Strood Rotary. The club provides the funding that enables the school to take part in the book club.

Buster’s Book Club is run by the KM Charity Team, and encourages children to read more at home.

Classes taking part compete for Class of the Week trophies, and winners of monthly inter-school challenges are rewarded with tickets to leisure attractions or visits by celebrity storytellers.

Club coordinator Kay Devine said: “Many congratulations to the children at St Peter’s: they’ve done brilliantly to log so many minutes of home-reading time, and that is sure to have a significant impact on their literacy attainment.

“And thank you so much to Strood Rotary for giving these children the opportunity to take part in Buster’s.”

Apart from Rotary and Diggerland, Buster’s Book Club is supported by the Historic Dockyard Chatham, the Ernest Cook Trust, Little Cheyne Court wind farm, the Kent Community Foundation, Golding Vision, Orbit, Medway and Kent councils, Specsavers, Leeds Castle, Hornby, Wildwood, Acorns Read and Grow, the Crown Foundation and the Gibbons Trust.

To find out more, visit Bustersbookclub.co.uk or contact Kay Devine or Kathy Beel at KDevine@thekmgroup.co.uk or Kbeel@thekmgroup.co.uk or on 0844 264 0291.