Junior Graphic Spelling competition starts next week

  The much-awaited National Junior Graphic Fan Club Spelling Competition is finally here and fan club schools, both old and new, are eager to participate in the contest.

While some of the old fan club members interviewed said they were working very hard to unseat the reigning champions, Kabore Basic School in Ho, Volta Region, who have won the competition twice, some new entrants believe they have what it takes to win the competition this year.

One of such students, 14-year-old JHS Three student of the Bethel Memorial School at Nungua in Accra, Dorothy Adom Ackah, confidently said that the ultimate aim of her team entering the competition was not to win at the group stage, but they were ready to take the cup from Kabore Basic School.

“It is not for anything that we have been studying for the past months. We are going to be the talk of the competition because we have what it takes to win. I am warning the other schools to watch out for Bethel Memorial,” she added.

Albert Hammond, a student of the Feliham Memorial School at Odorkor in Accra said although they are new in the fan club family, they are ready to compete with any school because they were not intimidated by the fact that they were going to meet other clubs which had competed over and over again.

Meanwhile, Selma Agbebanu of the Kabore Basic School, who is also a member of the team that won the competition twice, said the other competing schools could brag about taking the cup but they all knew that God is with them and that they are going to retain the cup for the third time and keep it for good.

“We are a strong team and I am sure all the other clubs know that. We are not afraid and we won’t disappoint our school,” she added.

The Assistant Editor of the Junior Graphic, Mr Vance Azu, said the essence of the spelling competition was to encourage schoolchildren to read wide and add a lot of words to their word bank.

According to him, 75 Junior Graphic Fan Club schools across the country are participating in this year’s National Junior Graphic Fan Club Spelling Competition, which would begin next week.

Mr Azu said out of that number, 41 fan club schools were in the Greater Accra Region and 34 in the other regions.

The Greater Accra Region, he pointed out, had the greatest number of fan club schools in the country, therefore, the clubs had been put into groups, depending on their location.

“So the clubs in Accra will compete at the group level and the winner in each group will qualify to participate in the knockout stage of the competition,” he added.

On where the words of the competition would come from, the Assistant Editor said although some of the words would be taken from the Junior Graphic, most of the words would be from dictionaries. He, therefore, advised club members to learn the spelling of as many words as they could.