National Year 7 Spelling Bee competition

The aim of the Spelling Bee is for students in Year 7 to practise and improve their vocabulary, spelling and memory skills in a foreign language (French, Spanish and German) and to raise the profile of language learning through a class, school and regional competition. :

December 2010 – Individual class competition
February 2011 – Whole school competition
16 March 2011 – Regional Competition
6 July 2011 – National Competition (PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE)
 

How it works:
Students will be given 50 words to learn at the first stage of the competition and a further 50 words will be added at both subsequent stages of the competition. Vocabulary will be relevant to the curriculum. For the National Final words will be 2012 related. The competition should be launched in school in the autumn term and time should be spent teaching and practising the alphabet in the foreign language (paying attention to describing letters with accents, etc..)

Unlike in a monolingual Spelling Bee, students will be given the word in English, They will first have to translate it into the foreign language and then spell it out correctly using the alphabet in the foreign language.
When participating, students will be given one minute to correctly spell as many words as possible.
Words should be allocated in random order.
The names of the winners at each stage of the competition should be submitted to routes@soas.ac.uk so that they can receive acknowledgement for their achievements via a certificate.
Finalists will be entered into the National Spelling Bee Final to be held on Friday 8th July in Cambridge.
 

If you’d like your year 7s to compete, please complete the registration form attached and email it to routes@soas.ac.uk

 The application deadline for the Spelling Bee is Wednesday 29th September 2010.