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INTRA-SCHOOL SPELLING BEE
INTRA-SCHOOL SPELLING BEE
INTRODUCTION
APS is extremely glad to introduce to you one of its yearly educational activity, the Spelling Bee Competition for the prestigious Sharnbasveshwar Memorial Rolling Trophy (ERT). SBC is an acclaimed competition hugely benefiting the students in many ways throughout students’ life and later on in their professional life. Hence, APS takes pride in establishing such internationally accepted educational activities for the benefit of all.
THE SPELLING BEE AT APS
The APS spelling bee is a new initiative with its pioneering efforts in the current year. The competition is named as the APS Interschool Spelling Bee Competition (APS-ISBC) and hereafter, the APS-ISBC will be a yearly competition with its unique characteristics and vision and mission.
VISION
Orient pupils to be positively competitive in the field of language-learning and nurture the ability to acquire, and use language and excel in communication.
MISSION
To encourage pupils to research, find, improvise and use vocabularies of varying difficulties and interpretations, connotations, and significance to achieve the lexical excellence that would enable them to become competent communicators.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
- Encourage students to learn and use English language correctly and efficiently.
- Create interest in learning spelling and help master the art and methods of learning spelling accurately and quickly.
- Orient pupils towards excellence in learning.
- Promote interest in exploring the roots of words and their meaning.
- Acquaint students with well defined, structured approaches towards programmes and activities.
- Create interest in language and the best use of the language in demanding environments.
- Generate a taste for correct spelling.
- Discover, showcase, and give vent to language abilities.
THE FEATURES OF THE COMPETITION
- The APS Spelling Bee competition is a yearly competition.
- The contestants attempt to spell correctly the words assigned to them by a judge.
- Competition will be individual based who may play several rounds before getting eliminated or come out as winners.
- Each player gets eliminated when s/he misspells a word.
- The last remaining player will be the winner.
- The winning school will carry the Rolling Trophy (RT) and will keep the same in their custody for 11 months/ until 30 days prior to the date of next year’s SBC.
- The winning school is directed to bring back the trophy ceremonially for the next year’s SBC on the date as may be decided by the host school.
- The date and time and procedures of bringing back the RT will be announced later on.
- The individual winners, the 1st, the 2nd, and the 3rd places, will be awarded with certificates, individual trophies, and cash prizes.
REGISTRATION
THE REGISTRATION IS FREE AND THE ENTRY FORM SHOULD BE DULY FILLED AND SIGNED BY THE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL ALONG WITH THE SCHOOL SEAL.
REGISTRATION AND DOCUMENTS
- The schools should certify that the participants are the bonafide students of the respective schools.
- The participants’ names should be entered as given in their Birth Certificate/Aadhaar card.
- The schools should provide the Aadhaar card of the participants along with their completed registration form.
- They should enter the names on or before the date as specified on the document enclosed.
SELECT WORDS OF THE SPELL BEE
- The select number of words is from the NCERT Textbooks of Grades VI – XII, and all the words except the Super Challenge Word List (SCWL) are provided 20 days before the competition.
- A total of 1000 or less than that select words with varying difficulty levels are given to the students 20 days prior to the competition.
- The Super Challenge Word List will be used only when the select 500 words are exhausted during the competition.
- The SCWL is special word list will not be provided in advance. However, the SCWL will be taken form the NCERT textbooks from Grades VII – XII to make it accessible for the students.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
The winners of the APS ISBC are rightfully recognised and promoted at various levels. At the end of the laborious travelling through the honeycomb of intricate spellings of many bee-words, those who come victorious will be awarded with certificates, trophies and cash prizes.
CONCLUSION
The APS ISBC is a highly meritorious educational activity and participating in the same would be considered a distinguishing trace of one’s schooling and therefore, we would like to bring this opportunity for raising the level of students’ ambition and to create a beeline for excellence.