The second season of The Spelling Bee, a competition targeted at primary students between ages 8 & 14, which was piloted in the State of Osun is being opened up to more States across Nigeria
The Spelling Bee is a competition designed to inculcate the basic imperatives of effective communication, ultimately impacting improved spelling skills, development of poise, increase students’ vocabulary, pronunciation and accurate word usage.
According to Mrs. Eugenia Tachie-Menson, Country Director of Young Educators Foundation, organisers of The Spelling Bee, “We are very pleased with the overwhelmingly successful implementation of The Spelling Bee in Osun States, where the eventual winner was rewarded with an all expense-paid trip to the 87th Scripps National Spelling Bee of the USA, as a guest. We remain grateful to the State of Osun and the office of SCARF for welcoming this educational programme into Nigeria.”
The Spelling Bee is a competition run by Young Educators Foundation, an NGO that promotes literacy and education, and franchise holders of Scripps National Spelling Bee, USA for Ghana. (Ghana is the only African country to participate in Scripps National Spelling National Bee) in partnership with PDR Media Service Nigeria and Business Interactive Consulting International.
The major objectives of The Spelling Bee in Nigeria includes encouraging students to improve on their knowledge and application of the rules guiding the use of English Language states, Mr. Emmanuel Afful, Linguistics Certified and Lead Trainer of The Spelling Bee.
The second season of The Spelling Bee in Nigeria which is being opened up to all sates in Nigeria starts November 2014 with a call for enrollment of schools. The maximum number of schools per state is 25. Selected teachers from these schools will undergo a one-week training to be led by Linguistics trained officials from Ghana. After this, the teachers are expected to impart their newly acquired skills onto their students.
The national competition will come off in April 2015 with all state finalists converging in Calabar to compete for the enviable title of best speller in Nigeria.
The awards are as follows:
1st Prize— An all-expense paid trip to the 88th Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington DC, USA as a guest, plus a scholarship Fund
2nd Prize- An all-expense paid trip to Oxford Univ. Press, UK and a scholarship fund.
1 thought on “The Spelling Bee Season 2 Goes National In Nigeria”
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AND IN 7 DAYS WHEN I RETURNED TO TEXAS, MY BOYFRIEND (NOW
HUSBAND) CALLED ME BY HIMSELF AND CAME TO ME
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