13 year-old girl, Afua Ansaa Manukure, from the Ridge Church School, in Accra, emerged the winner of the 9th edition of the Spelling Bee National Finals on Saturday 6th February 2016 and will be representing Ghana at the 89th Scripps National Spelling Bee in USA.
The Spelling Bee competition is a literacy programme for primary children between 8 to 13 years with the objective of teaching students the proper and effective use of the English Language and has been classified as a non-academic exercise and has been proven to develop the intellectual abilities of children as they learn through fun activities.
Ghana has been the only African country which has participated at the global level in the last few years and MultiChoice Ghana has supported and sponsored schools to participate at the district level in order for them to progress to the regional and national competitions.
The sponsorship covers registration, training and studying, vocabulary testing and oral spelling and provision of learning materials for students from schools interested in taking part.
The winner Afua Ansaa Manukure, from the Ridge Church School received a decoder with three months subscription as well as a goodie bag from MultiChoice while, Lord Awingor Mba, the first runner up and student of Mary’s Child School and the second runner-up, Emil Abagery, a student of University of Cape Coast Primary, also received goodie bags from MultiChoice .
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