Day was Saturday, location was Boys section, Quetta and air was full
of thrill as 14 teams (42 spellers) were going to get into a battle to
crown as the champion of Inter-Classes Spelling Bee Competition.
Everyone was eager and strange things were known about the preparation
of Spellers. Class 8-A, that later on became the champion of the day,
had prepared for eight hours the day before and teacher had made the
students stay at hostel for the preparation that continued even the
competition day after morning prayers till the last moments of
competition. Class 9-B team was noticed to be sitting and asking each
other the spellings of different words the whole last week. Although in
competitions, students take part but they never prepare for it like
examination but for this spelling bee, fever was on the peak and every
one had prepared the way they used to prepare for their examination.
The Arrangements:
Competition was held in a tent with arrangements done keeping in view
the smooth and standard proceedings of spelling bee contests. On stage,
42 chairs of spellers were arranged where as the pronouncer and the
jury faced them on a side. More than 200 seating capacity arrangements
were done for the parents and students. Mr. Javed Saba took smoothly the
proceedings as the compare while Head of English Department Quetta, Mr.
Muhammad Rasool was the pronouncer. English teachers, Mr. Bilal and Mr.
Abdul Baseer were active as the members of jury. Mr. Javed Iqbal was
responsible for Prize distribution while teachers and prefects performed
their duties to maintain discipline.
The Proceedings:
Mr. Javed Saba welcomed the guests and briefed them about the
Spelling Bee Contests held in PAKTURK Quetta. It was the fourth occasion
when Inter-Classes Spelling Bee Contest has been held while school also
maintains the record of arranging first ever ALL-BALOCHISTAN
INTER-SCHOOLS SPELLING BEE CONTEST in 2009.
Shahabuddin of Class 8-A got the honor of recitation of the verses
from Holy Quran. After that, Principal of PAKTURK QUETTA, Mr. Ahmet
KESTER delivered his welcome speech and talked about the different
activities arranged in the school this year.
Then the contest started. In the beginning, words asked were
comparatively easy and with each following round, level of difficulty of
words increased. Slowly number of teams present on stage decreased and
in round 18 only two teams were remaining on the stage. Then, both the
teams had a nail-biting contest in which both the teams spelled out
correctly the most difficult words given to them and they continued so
till round 26 when team of class 9-A made a mistake while their
opponents class 8-A not only spelled out correctly the given word but
also the following CHAMPIONSHIP word and became the champions of this
breath-taking contest.
Then certificates and prizes were distributed among the participants
and winners. All the English teachers put their share in this
distribution of certificates and prizes. Mr. Mehmet DURU gave away
participation certificates to class 6 students while Mr. Zekai gave away
certificates to the students of class 7. Mr. Baseer did so for class 8
while certificates of class 9 and 10 were given away by Mr. Bilal. For
all the 9 members of the champion, 1
st runner-up and 2
nd runner-up teams, OXFORD ADVANCED LEARNERS DICTIONARY (8
th Edition) were gifted. Mr. Muhammad Rasool gave dictionaries to the 3
rd
position holder team and Mr. Osman BASKAN did so for the second
position holder team. Then Mr. Ahmet KESTER, our worthy principal, gave
away the dictionaries, shields to each member and Champions trophy to
the winning team. In this way, a day came to end that was to be
remembered by everyone present on the spot.
The Champion Team:
Class 8: Fatima Qayyum, Muhammad Yar, Hassaan Mehmood.
First Runners-up team:
Class 9: Hassan Abbas, Khalil Wali, Muhammad Haris.
Second Runners-up team:
Class 8: Muhammad Faiq, Khurram Fattah, Nabeel Wali.
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