Less than two days remain for schools to submit entries for the Kent Literacy Awards.

The deadline is mid-day on Wednesday May 1, and a team of business, educational and third-sector judges will soon begin the difficult task of selecting the winners.

Those judges include Maidstone-based The Education People, which supplies a broad range of products and services to schools and colleges across the south-east.

Awards coordinator Karen Brinkman said: “It’s absolutely brilliant to have The Education People involved in the Kent Literacy Awards judging process.

“They have so much experience and expertise in so many different aspects of early-years, primary, secondary and further education.

“The judging panel will really benefit from their informed input.”

The literacy awards are for primary and secondary schools, and recognise initiatives that develop reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.

The categories include: best use of cross curricular writing; best use of art or poetry; and best speaking competition or debating club.

Besides The Education People, the judges are Golding Homes, Coram Beanstalk, the Crown Foundation, Tribeca Technology Group, the University of Kent, Hempstead House, Reed Education, McCabe Ford Williams, and KM Facilities Management.

They will choose separate winners for Kent’s individual boroughs, Medway, Bexley and Bromley, as well as for the region as a whole. And the winners will be announced at a ceremony at Hempstead House in Sittingbourne in July.

Submit nominations here.