A Sandbach teacher is celebrating after being selected as one of three finalists in a national magazine's #hellotokindness awards.

Sarah Maile, a teacher at Sandbach High School and Sixth Form College in Middlewich Road, is one of three finalists in the Hello! magazine awards

Earlier this year, students at the school launched a petition with Sarah's help calling on the government to ban the sale of school uniforms in sex shops and from being worn in pornographic videos.

The petition calls on the government to make it illegal for school uniforms to be displayed and sold within sex shops to stop the sexualisation of children.

Sarah Maile, the PSHCE (Personal, Social, Health, Citizenship and Economic) co-ordinator at the school, was also behind the Be Kind Awards at the school. 

Under her nomination, the magazine says: "Sarah qualified as a teacher to help 'educate, equip and empower' young people.

"The 35-year-old, from Cheshire, now voluntarily runs three youth activism groups, including one focused on female issues and another focusing on anti-racism, while encouraging her pupils to meet local MPs and activists and create awareness campaigns.

"She has also started a national campaign to get school uniforms banned in pornography and set up the Be Kind Awards, which recognises kindness in children across the country."

Sarah says her sister nominated her for the award and she still can't get over being nominated. 

"I just do my job - a job I utterly love with the most incredible people. It's such an incredible honour, I know there are much more deserving people than I," she said.

"It's wonderful publicity for the petition and the Be Kind Awards, and I'm so very moved to have been selected and unbelievably grateful for everyone who is voting for me.

"It's absolutely crazy! I can't believe it. I'm just so lucky."

Hello readers can vote for the #HelloToKindness awards, with the winners getting treated to an overnight stay at London's Great Scotland Yard hotel and a VIP ticket to the ceremony.

They will also receive a pampering VIP hair and make-up package for the awards before taking home a goody bag.

Good luck Sarah. Sandbach Nub News wishes you every success in these awards and hopes you win!