Alex Mampana Primary School is a school of achievers, they have outsmarted the other schools by winning the Spelling Bee Competition.
As part of the Read to Lead Campaign, the Department of Basic Education (DBE) hosts the DBE Spelling Bee in South Africa (National Spelling Bee Championship) and promotes the love of reading through the promotion of reading clubs in schools, annually.
A Spelling Bee is a game or competition in which the participants compete in spelling words orally.
The National Spelling Bee Championship which targets learners from Grade 3 to 12 is aimed at improving learners’ performance in languages.
A call is hereby made for all schools with Grades 3 to 12 to participate in the National Spelling Bee Championship.
Schools are encouraged to take part in the Spelling Bee Competition, and the winners will proceed to the National Championship in the third quarter of the year.
Schools are requested to first hold the competition in class, grade, and phase to select their best three spellers who will represent them at cluster/circuit, district, and provincial levels of the championship.
The school after winning the school level moved straight to represent the school at the provincial level.
When they started, there were about 80 learners and some of the learners were eliminated during the process until there were only 16 learners who were going to represent the school at the national level of the competition to be held on October 3.
One of the 13 learners is Mahlatse Nkongatse, who represented the school last year, and she is also the head girl of the school.
The learners were prepared by their teachers and a lot of effort was put into making sure that only the best spellers would represent the school in the competition.
Unathi Mahlangu, one of the learners who will represent the school, said that practice makes perfect, and they received a lot of help from teachers and parents.
“We were made to work hard, and now we are more than ready for the national competition, and we are sure of ourselves. We are more focused, and we hope to bring it home,” added Unathi.
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