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**What** is ATHS Spelling Bee? ATHS Spelling Bee is a spelling competition for grade 9 students. Three winners from each class qualify for the school competition and three students are announced as the school champions at the finals. All participants receive certificates of participation and the champion/ co-champions receive awards.

**Why** participate in ATHS Spelling Bee? • You will study and learn the spellings of new and familiar words, which will improve your scores in all subjects.  • You will win prizes.  • You will practice spelling in front of an audience

**Who** can participate? All ATHS grade 9 students can take part in this competition.

**How** to participate? All you need to do is download the lists from the @word lists page of this Wiki and study them for the class competition. The lists include words from your English course book New Headway Plus, unit 1-6 and some general English words that you are expected to know. In addition, there are 45-50 words from the other core subjects that you have been studying at ATHS (Maths, Science, Applied Technology and ICT).

**How** does this competition work? To qualify for the final Spelling Bee Competition, you need to be one of the champions in your class. Your English teacher will run the competition in class sometime between 26th and 29th of February, 2012. If you don't know the rules of the competition, please visit the @Spelling Bee Rules page on this Wiki. You can read the rules or download the PowerPoint presentation.

 Thirty-six students will qualify for the final competition. In the final Bee, there will be three rounds. Fifteen contestants will qualify for the second round and five will qualify for the final. The champion is the one who can stay in the competition till the end of the assigned words or till the other two contestants misspell their words.

 On the day of the final competition, you will go to the auditorium and you will spell out the words in front of your teachers and all of grade 9 students.

**When** is the final competition?  The final competition will be on Wednesday 7th of March, 2012.