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**What** is the ATHS Spelling Bee? ATHS Spelling Bee is a spelling competition for Grades 9(Core), 10(Core) and 11 students in Abu Dhabi. All students from each class qualify for the inter-school competition and three students are announced as the school champions at the finals. All participants receive certificates of participation and the champion/ co-champions receive awards.

**Why** participate in the ATHS Spelling Bee? • You will study and learn the spellings of new and familiar words, which will improve your scores in all subjects. • You will win prizes. • You will practice spelling in front of an audience

**Who** can participate? ATHS Grade 9 and 10(Core) as well as all Grade 11 students at the Abu Dhabi Female Campus can take part in this competition. Grade 9 and 10 ASP have been invited by Al Ain Female Campus to participate in a Spelling Bee at a different time and place. Therefore, they have been excluded from this particular Spelling Bee.

**How** to participate? All you need to do is download the lists from the **Word Lists (General English and Scientific Terminology)** page of this Wiki and study them for the inter-campus competition. The words are taken from the most commonly used words in the English language and divided into different categories. In addition, there are 80 scientific words taken from the other core subjects that you have been studying at ATHS (Maths, Science, Applied Technology and ICT).

**How** does this competition work? You can register with your English teacher from **21st of February, 2013 to 5th of March,2013**. If you don't know the rules of the competition, please visit the **Spelling Bee Rules** page on this Wiki. You can read the rules or download the PowerPoint presentation.

Only ten students from all grades will qualify for the final competition. The champion is the one who can stay in the competition till the end of the assigned words or till the other two contestants misspell their words.

On the day of the final competition, you will go to the auditorium and you will spell out the words in front of your teachers and some grade 9, 10 and 11 students.

**When** is the final competition? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The final competition will be in **Term 3, Week 4**.

Adapted from original content developed by Rehab Rajab, ATHS Dubai.