Foreign Language Spelling Bee National Final

On Friday 5^th July Jack Cooper travelled to Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge to represent Oakmeeds in the National Final of the Foreign Language Spelling Bee Competition.

The Foreign Language Spelling Bee is a competition for students in Year 7 to practice and improve their vocabulary, spelling and memory skills in a foreign language (French, German, or Spanish). It was created by Jane Driver in partnership with Routes into Languages East. It started in 2009 as a regional competition for the East Anglian region, and in 2010 it became a national competition across England. When this year’s competition started in September there were a total of 25,000 students taking part!

Jack earned a place in the Final by winning 1^st Place in the South East Regional Competition at Brighton University in April. In the French Final in Cambridge he was competing against 33 other students in the French section and he performed brilliantly, translating and spelling 16 words randomly selected from a list of 200 without making a single mistake! Although he didn’t get down to the final four on the day we would like to congratulate Jack on this amazing achievement and for all the hard work he put into preparing for the Final.

Success for Oakmeeds at the Routes into Languages Spelling Bee 2013

Four Year 7 students, Jack Cooper, Katy Kenward, Robert Pugh and Phillip Wilson, have been spending a lot of time practising their French spelling lately. They have been preparing for the Regional Final of the Routes into Languages French Spelling Bee Competition which took place on Friday 26th April at the University of Brighton.

In the 1st round they all did extremely well, competing against students from many different schools. Jack Cooper was one of four students to get through to the 2nd Round of the competition, where he successfully translated and spelt 17 French words in just one minute, earning himself 1st place for French for the whole of the southern region!

Jack will now start to prepare the final list of 50 words, bringing the total number of words learnt to 200. The National Final will be held at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge on    Friday 5th July. Congratulations to all students who took part and all the best to Jack for the    Final!