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Year Seven

 

The final of the Year 7 Spelling Bee took place in front of the year and tutor team.  The twenty-one finalists emerged from heats held over the last few weeks in English lessons.

 

The tension and excitement mounted as contestant after contestant spelled the words correctly.

 

The standard was very high with the first student not being eliminated until after round 3.

 

The length and complexity of the words increased but incredibly we reached round 15 with 4 competitors still in the competition!

 

After 4 more rounds and 3 tie breaks a winner emerged.  The Spelling Bee champion for Chew Valley School 2010 is Kellan Blakeway (7L).  The runner up, who was only beaten after the tie breaks is Callum O’Riordan (7W).  Together with Sonny Pearce (7V) and Amelia Sommer (7W) as reserve the Chew Valley team will compete in the regional final – date and venue to be announced.

 

To produce such an exciting and tense final says much for the spelling abilities of our Year 7 students.  Thanks must go to the English department staff for organising the heats  and of course to the Jeremy Paxman of Chew Valley Mr Blower who compered the final in such an  encouraging and professional way – a media career beckons?!