BELAIR--Five pupils will be moving on to the Scotiabank Rotary-Rotaract Spelling Bee finals on Sunday, October 30.
Fifteen semi-finalists competed at the Belair Community Centre this past Sunday. The highlight of the event saw three parents and one principal spelling several words to win TelCell top-up cards donated by TelCell.
Headed to the finals are five participants from four schools: Dhiren Punjabi, Learning Unlimited Preparatory School; Lavanya Budhwani, Methodist Agogic Centre Browlia F. Maillard Campus; D’shenay Gayle, Methodist Agogic Centre Rev. John A. Gumbs Campus; and Suhani Nathumel and Syandra Caesar, St. Dominic Primary School.
In the preliminary round, participants had to write selected words, but in the semi-finals, they had to stand in front of the audience and the judges and speak into the microphone spelling their selected word. Each participant had to spell 15 words; each word was worth five points. At the end of the semi-finals there was no tie, but it was a tight finish, according to organisers.
The 15 semi-finalists, from eight schools, were Radharoni Natram, Hillside Christian Schools Asha Stevens Campus; Dhiren Punjabi and Krishang Motwani, Learning Unlimited Preparatory School; Lavanya Budhwani, Rianna Ayoka Roberts and Sacha Tobias, Methodist Agogic Centre Browlia Maillard Campus; D’shenay Gayle and Vinti Atmaramani, Methodist Agogic Centre Rev. John A. Gumbs Campus; Varsha Ghanash, Seventh-Day Adventist School; Aman Sukhani, Suhani Nathumal and Syandra Caesar, St. Dominic School; Bani Rajpal and Denny Mo, St. Joseph School; and Steven Connor, Adrian T. Hazel School in Anguilla.
The finals also will take place at the Belair Community Centre and will start promptly at 1:00pm. Everyone is asked to be on time and participants should be there at least a half-hour before the event begins.
Family, friends, classmates and teachers are invited to come out to support and cheer on the five finalists, as there will be a prize for the school with the largest number of supporters. There is also a 40-inch TV being raffled.
