NSW Department of Education and Training: The Arts Unit

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 )

Junior Division Senior Division
Short list Full list Short list Full list
Complete Junior Word List General Complete Senior Word List General
  The Arts   The Arts
  Environment   Environment
  Science/Mathematics   Science/Mathematics
Sport Sport

Chloe O'Brien from Finley Public School - winnter of the Years 3 & 4 Division of the 2007 Premier's Spelling BeeCongratulations 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

Contact

Chloe Hardwick Jones

Spelling Bee Coordinator

Ph: 02 8512 1173

Fax: 02 9569 6878
send email

Calendar

4 July 2008
2008 Entries Close

29 August 2008
Schools to submit names of Regional Finalists by this date

15 - 26 September 2008
Regional Finals

19 November 2008
State Finals