Premier's Spelling Bee

2008 Regional Finals

Draws for the Regional Finals of the 2008 Premier's Spelling Bee are now available to view and download.

 

Please find outlined below the schedule for the Regional Finals of the 2008 Premier's Spelling Bee.  You can view and/or download a complete list of all the Local Area Finals in your Region by clicking on the name of your Region, or you can select just one Regional Final by clicking on the Venue.  Please note that the Regional finals at Hampden Park Public School and at Oatlands Public School contain students from more than one Region.  Downloadable material on this site requires Adobe Acrobat Reader which is available to download free at www.adobe.com . Draws are current as of Thursday 4 September 2008.

Region	Date	Venue	Convenor
Hunter/ Central Coast	Tuesday 16 September	Shortland Public School	Sharne Roxby
	Friday 19 September	Valentine Public School	Jo Crisp
	Tuesday 23 September	Wadalba Community School	Carol Furey
	Wednesday 24 September	Ettalong Public School	Peter Cardy
	Thursday 25 September	Maitland East Public School	Steven Richard
Illawarra & South East	Tuesday 16 September	Bowral Public School	Scott Cayzer
	Thursday 18 September	Narooma Public School	Robyn Giblett
	Monday 22 September	Unanderra Public School	Tiffani Cameron
New England	Monday 22 September	Armidale City Public School	Cherrie Patersson
	Thursday 25 September	Oxley Vale Public School	Julie Blanch
North Coast	Monday 15 September	Centaur Public School	Kay Wilson
	Wednesday 17 September	Alstonville Public School	David Wright
	Thursday 18 September	Hastings Public School	Grant Heaton
	Wednesday 24 September	Grafton Public School	Stephen Lamb and Leigh Robertson
Northern Sydney	Thursday 18 September	Cherrybrook Public School	Carol Weatherdon
	Tuesday 23 September	Narrabeen Lakes Public School	Diana Alcorn and Janette Clark
	Wednesday 24 September	Truscott St Public School	Marlene Nairn
Riverina	Tuesday 16 September	Albury Public School	Vicki Harris
	Wednesday 17 September	Griffith East Public School	Lisa Malone
	Tuesday 23 September	Deniliquin South Public School	Sally Davidson
South Western Sydney	Tuesday 16 September	Hampden Park Public School	Kellie Stone
	Monday 15 September	Cabramatta Public School	Brooke Mobbs
	Monday 22 September	Campbelltown East Public School	Sonja Zink
	Tuesday 23 September	Blaxcell Street Public School	Sandra Bradley
Sydney	Wednesday 17 September	Bonnet Bay Public School	Jeff Witham
	Friday 19 September	Glebe Public School	Karen Rispoli
Western NSW	Wednesday 17 September	Kelso Public School	Anne Llewellyn
	Monday 22 September	Dubbo College - Senior Campus	Mary Strong (Dubbo South Public School)
Western Sydney	Wednesday 17 September	Quaker's Hill Public School	Adam Wynn
	Thursday 18 September	Hazelbrook Public School	Maree Cairns
	Wednesday 24 September	Oatlands Public School	Alison Cunningham
	Tuesday 16 September	St Mary's North Public School	Joshua Mathews

2008 Word Lists Now Available

All word lists for the Premier's Spelling Bee are compiled by the editors of the Macquarie Dictionary.  In 2008 these are in five categories:

• General
• The Arts
• Environment
• Science/Mathematics
• Sport

The word lists include definitions, sentences that place the words in context, and pronunciation guides. Word lists are organised into Junior (Years 3 & 4) and Senior (Years 5 & 6) divisions. These lists are available in two forms - one list just of the words in each category, and one reference list of the full records to consult online. Word lists are organised into levels - Level one represents the easiest words to spell and Level 6 the most difficult.

 

You can download the wordlists using the links below. (Downloadable material is in .pdf format and requires Adobe Acrobat which is available to download free from www.adobe.com )

Congratulations to Chloe O'Bryan of Finley Public School - winner of the Years 3 & 4 Division of the 2007 Premier's Spelling Bee and Felicity Cheng of Abbotsford Public School - winner of the Years 5 & 6 Division of the 2007 Premier's Spelling Bee.

 

The Premier’s Spelling Bee was introduced in 2004 to New South Wales public and central schools as a way of encouraging interest in spelling. Building on the success of the Premier's Reading Challenge, the Spelling Bee attracted over 800 entries in 2004, increasing to more than 1,000 in 2005 , and to more than 2,000 in 2006 when the current Premier, the Hon Morris Iemma MP continued government support for this initiative. The state final in each of the previous years has been broadcast live on ABC Radio.

 

Detailed information for the 2008 Premier's Spelling Bee will be available on this site soon. Please bookmark this page and call back regularly.

Past Winners

	Years 3 & 4 Winner	School	Years 5 & 6 Winner	School
2007	Chloe O'Bryan	Finley Public School	Felicity Cheng	Abbotsford Public School
2006	Meredith Cheng	Abbotsford Public School	Elena Heran	Albury Public School
2005	Joanne Vo	Picnic Point Public School	Tahmid Shahriyar	Wilkins Public School
2004	Katrina Chau	Guildford West Public School	Ishraq Ahmed	Casula Public School