THE GREAT KWARA SPELLING BEE COMPETITION
Enhancing written and spoken English
Spell, be spelled and hold audiences spell bound as you participate in the Great Kwara State Spelling Bee Competition. The art of spelling is one that has long been lost and this era of advanced technology and communication has not helped in the struggle to maintain the true spirit of spelling correctly. We have developed cunning strategies in coining words and short forms in SMS messages that an un – initiatemay get quite an headache trying to decipher. While good spoken English is indispensable in this age, a good written form is not less important.
This is why Women and Child Watch Initiatives (WOCWI) in conjunction with the Kwara State Ministry of Education, Science and Technology is organizing the Spelling Bee competition among all Senior Secondary Schools in Kwara State.A competition structured after the Scripps National Spelling Bee competition, the mother of all spelling bees in the world. Competitions will be held in the 3 senatorial districts, at the State level and there will be a grand finale.
A long and tenuous road you may say. However, at the end of it lies half a millionNaira (N500,000.00) for the winner,N300, 000 and N200,000 for the first and second runner up respectively. Consolation prizes of N50,000 are available for all the other finalists. Of these cash awards, the schools from which the students come from get a whopping 20% share. That’s not all, as the winning school gets a trophy, the victorious local government plaque and other prizes such as scrabble games, dictionaries, etc for winners at every level of the competition. To top it off, the finalists get an excursion to a foreign country. Everybody is a winner!
Aims and Objectives of the Competition
- Help students improve their spelling. This will go a long way to help students attain higher scores in essays and other tests of English usage.
- Increase their vocabularies giving them a rich and deep fount of knowledge to draw from anytime they utter a word.
- Enhance their pronunciation thus developing a better diction and erasing the influence of local accents
- Learn new concepts and broaden their horizon.
- Foster the spirit of competition which will improve individual performance as higher stakes and new goals are set.
- Help students develop the spirit of sportsmanship teaching them that winning is not everything.
- Expose students to the feel and thrill of healthy competition thus giving them the invaluable experience and gearing them up for future contests.
- Encourage unity and harmony among students of various secondary schools thus building a solid platform for educational networking and information sharing.
- Attain good English usage consequently grooming them for future roles as speakers, statesmen and so on.