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Spelling Bee - March 16th 2024
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UPDATE ON THE FINAL OF THE GSML SPELLING BEE
The grand final of the Spelling Bee was held on Saturday 16th March 2024 at Scripture Union Building, Pademba Road, Freetown at around 10am with some clips of the movie: Akeelah and the Bee.
Four schools qualified for the final, both from the East and West of Freetown. The participating schools included: Dr. S. M. Broderick Municipal School, Clavicmond Preparatory and Primary School, Queen Elizabeth Academy, and Pentecost Academy. These schools had two spellers each, making it a total of eight spellers at the final.
The best school in this Spelling Bee was Clavicmond Preparatory and Primary School with 105 points; the second in position was Queen Elizabeth Academy with 87 points and third in position was Pentecost Academy with 82 points.
The individual best speller -Sheku Samura was a class 4 pupil of Pentecost Academy who emerged with 73 points. He was followed by Princess F. Kargbo of Clavicmond Preparatory and Primary with 60 points, and the third individual best went to N’sira B.K. Taylor-Kamara of Queen Elizabeth Academy with 55 points.
Certificates of participation and merit were given to schools and pupils. Added to that was the distribution of cash prizes to the best individual spellers – NLe 1500 plus learning materials to the first, NLe 1000 plus learning materials to the second and NLe 500 plus learning materials to the third winner.
The programme was rounded off with words of appreciation from the visionary, Mrs. Olivia Jonah, to library techs, judges of the Spelling Bee, teachers and schools in attendance. Light refreshment was served. There were about 44 kids and 20 adults in attendance. It was a great a moment indeed!
Humbly submitted,
Sahr Elijah Jude-Conteh
Coordinator of the Bee
Visit to the Logos Hope Ship
Tour of Sierra Leone Library Board November 1, 2024
A library is a place, a room or a building containing learning items, especially books. I visited the Sierra Leone Library on Friday 1st of November 2024 at Rokel Street, Freetown. Our class teacher organized us to board the bus. Our Proprietors offered prayers for travel mercies and admonished us to be at our best behavior. We went with our class teacher and reading club teacher. The library Director welcomed us and gave us a tour of the library. He pointed out the fiction section and explained that it contains stories that are not real, they are imaginary. He took us through the gazettes section and the engine room where the books are processed and stamped before taking them to the shelves. We went to the children’s library; it was well equipped with children’s books and learning materials. We spent about 2 hrs on this tour and had so much fun. I would like to visit the SLL again because it is a place of learning.
The Logos Hope is a passenger ship tat hosts the worlds largest floating book fair and is operated by a faith-based organization. I visited the ship on Friday 25th October 2024. It was anchored at the water quay in Freetown. I went with my classmates and teachers from our school. We were given a tour on board the ship by one of the crew members. We visited the museum on board the ship and went through the many shelves of books. I met some new people and made a few new friends with students from other schools. We spent about 2 hours, ate some nice food. We had so much fun I would like to visit the ship again anytime it comes to Sierra Leone.
