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 2011 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.

  

It costs schools $99US for each eligible participating school to register with Scripps. The deadline for registration is 15 October 2011. Email: info@spellingbee.co.nz

Your school's enrollment fee includes:

  • Log in ID and password for a teachers only area of www.spellingbee.com. This includes newsletter and tips to help your students with their spelling.
  • Study materials for students.
  • Classroom pronouncer guide.
  • From Encyclopaedia Britannica, a free one-year subscription to kids.britannica.com Enroll by September 30 and Encyclopaedia Britannica will give your school TWO free one-year subscriptions worth $US139.
  • Spelling Bee word lists for students from year one to year eight and test forms.
  • Materials to turn your spelling bee into a school fund raiser.
  • A Certificate of Participation for each speller.