A two-year music initiative for Tonbridge teenagers reached its climax on Sunday with a special concert. The Orchestra ONE project, funded by the Rochester Bridge Trust, ended with a final performance led by musical director James Redwood. Orchestra ONE, the Orchestra of New Experiences, aimed to reach young music enthusiasts from Medway, Maidstone and Tonbridge who do not usually have the opportunity to take part in shared music...

PUPILS and staff at Tonbridge Grammar School are celebrating this morning after receiving excellent GCSE results. All students sitting the exams at the school achieved at least five A*-C grades, including English and maths. There were also a number of strong individual performances, with a number of students gaining 12 A* grades, including Emilie Dommett from Tonbridge, Eleanor Scopes from Edenbridge and Katherine Head from...

Well done to the winners in the Create a Fruit and Veg Masterpiece 2012. Whilst all eyes are on the capital for this month's London 2012, six groups of primary school children were limbering up for a very different kind of Olympics on Friday 29 June in the green fields of the 'Garden of England' as they took part in the Olympic Live Final for 'Create A Fruit & Veg Masterpiece 2012' at Broadview Gardens, Hadlow, in...

Six lucky and talented finalists are limbering up for the Olympic Live Final of Produced in Kent's Create A Fruit & Veg Masterpiece art competition on Friday 29 June, having just found out that they have beaten their way past close to 250 entries to reach the final.  Now all the finalists will be heading to Broadview Garden Centre, in Kent, at 2pm on Friday 29 June where the children will compete for Gold, Silver and...

Summer holidays are looming - here are details of the Summer Playscheme and Activate programmes from Tonbride & Malling Borough Council. The Summer Playscheme is for children aged 4 - 11 years. The scheme runs weekdays from Monday 30 July to Friday 17 August and offers a wide range of activities including arts and crafts projects, competitions, games, dance workshops and a variety of sporting activities. The Playscheme will run...

School children from Tonbridge are invited to compete in the 2012 Olympic Create a Fruit & Veg Materpiece Art Competition. The competition is run by Produced in Kent, who are inviting all primary school children (in Year R to Year 6) to join the race and to create a picture depicting London 2012 using real fruit and veg. The 2012 competition has been made a reality this year by the generous sponsorship of R J...

Kids from Woodlands Infant School in Tonbridge have been having fun and training with Physique Fitness Training's champion trainer Henry Adekoya. More than 165 pupils in Years 1, 2 and 3 had the chance to discover the fun of fitness and dance with sessions especially developed by the top trainer. The pupils' exercise sessions were the result of their parents collecting Sainsbury's Active Kids vouchers. Henry, who...

Services across Tonbridge will be hit as staff take industrial action in response to the Government's proposals on pension schemes  - and schools across Tonbridge and Kent are being forced to close. KCC has published a list of schools that have announced their closure. So far those shut include: Beaver Green CPS Challock Primary School   Mersham Primary School   Phoenix CPS   Victoria Road PS ...

After being turned down to start a new 'free' primary school, a group of campaigners may turn their sights on a new secondary school for Kings Hill. Secondary School children from Kings Hill currently travel as far away as Tunbridge Wells, Invicta on the other side of Maidstone and even up to Kings in Rochester, not to mention the private schools in Sevenoaks.  Angela Vincent of the Kings Hill Five recently put forward a proposal...

The A Level and GCSE Results are imminent - so how will Tonbridge pupils perform this year? Will it be another record-breaking performance for local pupils, as it was last year in the county? In 2010 almost 80 per cent of Kent teenagers achieved five A* to C grades at GCSE, which was up 4.7 per cent on 2009 and was an impressive 8.6 per cent above the national average. Here are some handy links direct to the school websites to keep...