Tenby Schools Setia Eco Gardens (Johor), Inaugural Spelling Bee 2023.
Our International Secondary students held its first spelling bee competition in 2023. There were 5 rounds in total, with the first four being elimination round. Each selected week students were provided with a list of words they had to master, and were then eliminated based on a pass mark in the written rounds and then verbal rounds were dependent on the ability to spell a certain number of words correctly.
Entry was automatic for all and the first round saw 256 students participating and the finale list had 65 students. In the end, we got our top three participants: Loretta Yr. 7, Saarim Yr. 8 and Jaena Yr. 8. It was an intense finale and Jaena ended up being crowned overall winner, with the winning words being ‘Ouagadougou and Croquembouche’.
We congratulate all who took part in this event, and even bigger congratulations to our winners of the day, who had to master 260 words in total.