Sheerness children will enjoy a free visit to Chatham’s Historic Dockyard after achieving dazzling results with reading reward scheme Buster’s Book Club.

The children at Rose Street Primary were presented with the vouchers by Andy Brown, president of the Rotary Club of Minster-on-Sea, which pays for the school to participate in the 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 Kathy Beel said: “This is such a well-deserved prize as these children have shown real dedication to logging up their home-reading minutes with Buster’s.

“And it’s so nice that Andy Brown was able to hand over the vouchers in person, as it is thanks to the generosity of Minster-on-Sea Rotary that the school was able to take part in the club in the first place.”

Rose Street has shown an imaginative approach to encouraging its pupils to read more, purchasing a playground reading shed that acts as a reading zone at break times and which hosts a twice-weekly family book swap.

Apart from Rotary and the Dockyard, Buster’s Book Club is supported by Diggerland, 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.