The Free State Department of Education together with the Department of Sports, Arts, Culture and Recreation will host the Provincial English Spelling Bee Competition for Grades 3, 4, 6, 7 and 9 learners from Tuesday, 3 to Thursday 6 September 2013 at St Michael’s Combined School in Bloemfontein.
Free State Education MEC, Tate Makgoe and Sports, Arts, Culture and Recreation MEC, Dan Khothule will grace the event.
The Spelling Bee is one of the government’s intervention strategies to support and improve literacy skills, while developing their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
The competition started at district level with 467 learners from 154 schools. About 150 learners, 30 per grade reached the finals and will compete at the provincial level.
The Spelling Bee does not only focus on spelling but teaches learners to also use the same words in various contexts and to learn to recognize them in listening and reading and to be able to use them in speaking and writing.
The intervention strategy also aims to support and improve learner performance in English across the province with special focus to 350 focus schools for 2013 and to support Grades 3, 4, 6, 7 and 9 learners.
The theme for the competition is “Celebrating Reading”
At the same time, National Readathon Week and the International Literacy Week will also be celebrated from Tuesday, 03 September to 06 September 2013.
Details of the event are as follows:
Date: 3 to 6 September 2013
Time: 10h00
Venue: St Michaels Combined School
Issued by the Free State Department of Education
