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The Thirds’ Spelling Bee 2018
Ali Khan, RS
On Tuesday 26 of June, the Thirds’ Spelling Bee had
finally arrived and the teams were raring to go. The
teams were: ‘Wot Khanage’ (Eliot Watson and Ali and
Rafi Khan), ‘To Bee or not to Bee’, ‘HCGBees’, ‘Saved by
the Spell’, ‘The Spelling Gs’, and the ‘SASSy Stingers’.
The first round was Last Man Standing and the objective was to
spell the words correctly without losing your two lives. The last
pupil standing was the winner. The words started off relatively easy
before gradually getting harder as time passed. The winner of this
event came from ‘Saved by the Spell’ and it was Juliet Wong who
spelt every word correctly without mistake. The next round was the
Quickfire round. The aim of the game was to spell as many words
as you could in two minutes collectively as a team. All of the scores
in this round were really close and the winning team won this
round by one point. In second place, with seventeen words spelt
correctly… was ‘Wot Khanage ‘ which meant that in first place, came
‘Saved by the Spell’.
I would like to say thank you to Miss Evans who organised this fun
event and the Sixth Formers who gave up their spare time to host it.
Adventure Writing Success
Bancroftians enjoyed great success
in the annual Wilbur Smith and
Niso Smith Foundation ‘The Author
of Tomorrow Award’. This annual
competition is designed to find the
adventure writers of the future. It
is open to young people, aged 21
and under, who have completed a
short piece of adventure writing in
English. The stories must be 1500-
5000 words. The award is run in
partnership with Worldreader,
a charity which aims to make
everyone a reader.
Miles’ (L4W) story,
A Journey Through Darkness
was one of five shortlisted. The judges praised
the young authors who made the shortlist
saying, “what set these five stories apart was
their spirit of adventure. “ Miles described his
story thus, “Disadvantaged and different, Aaron
leads a tough life. He is lacking something most
of us consider as essential, sight. But when the
opportunity arises to prove himself he jumps at
the chance. Can he defeat the odds and surpass
expectations?”
In addition, Edward Sands-Grant (U4N)
received a “Special Commendation” for
Under
an Amethyst Sky
;
The Search
by Clementine
Jamieson (U4W) and
Rosaline
by Mehek Sennik
(U4S) were both long-listed. Miles and Edward
attended a presentation at the Stationers’ Hall
in September to receive their prizes.