The New Zealand Spelling Bee programme is an educational event for schools with students up to Year Eight. It offers students the chance to improve their spelling, increase their vocabularies, expand their understanding of the English language, set some study goals, experience a spelling bee and have some fun with words.

Register your school in the Scripps National Spelling Bee by 15 October 2012 so all your students can take part in a school spelling bee and your Year Eight Spellers can participate in the New Zealand Vegemite Spelling Bee where the top 200 Year Eight spellers win a place in one of the country’s five regional spelling bees. Fourteen of these spellers then advance to the New Zealand Spelling Bee Final in Wellington. This is an overnight event which includes a banquet dinner with the other spellers, accommodation for the speller and his/her parent or caregiver and airfares to Wellington for those spellers outside of the lower half of the North Island.

The finalists have the opportunity to win an expenses paid trip to the United States of America to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee Final held in Maryland near Washington DC.

Email info@spellingbee.co.nz for more information.