12 Year Old Emerged Winner At The 3rd Annual Hohoe Inter-Schools Spelling Bee And Idiomatic Expressions Competition

The competition which was among 20 schools from both public and private schools with 40 participants started on Monday 23rd May 2016 with 13 schools from Hohoe East and Hohoe West and continued with 7 schools from Hohoe Central and Hohoe North on Tuesday 24th May, 2016

At the first group stage, a 12 year old Dogbe Rebecca from Global Academic took the First position followed by Addo Lois 12, from Universal Preparatory School and Agbo Agbemor Derrick 12 took the third position from St. Joseph Preparatory School.

Whereas among the second group , Mawusi Hilda 13 from Hohoe Newtown Junior High school took the fist position, followed by Segbefia Princess 12 from Matter Ecclesiastes J. H. S and the Kwasitse Andy 14 from M.A Experimental Junior High School.

From the 6 finalist who took part in the last part of the competition, Addo Lois from Universal Preparatory school J. H. S walked away with a brand new laptop computer donated by Dr. Robert Doe from Cedar Medical Center at Hohoe, with novels and other consolation prices as the Overall winner of this year’s Hohoe Inter-schools Spelling Bee and Idiomatic Expressions Competition.

The Second winner Rebbeca Dogbe from Global Academy J. H. S took a wall Clock, 5 plastic chairs and other consolation prices.

Whiles the third winner Hilda Mawusi from Newtown J. H.S also took 3 plastic chairs and reading novels.

In an interview with the Executive Director of Shalom Word Foundation, Ms Shalom Abla Lumor has congratulated the winners for their hard work and urged other children to work hard and prepare for next year’s competition.

She however revealed that this year’s competition is unique because the organizers have added Idiomatic Expressions to the competition making the participants to have broader knowledge of the idiomatic expressions aspect of the English language.

The Assistant Headmaster of Likpe Nkwata Basic School who is also the CEO of Feminine Star Africa has urged the children and schools to be circumspect in their studies by paying attention to details of the English Language.

She also urged the schools who do not take much interest in the competition to sit up and trained the children for next year’s competition.

Hohoe Inter-school Spelling Bee and Idiomatic Expressions Competition is an annual which is being organized by the Shalom word Foundation for over 3 years now.

The Sponsors of this year’s event were Dr. Mrs Bernice Adiku Heloo the Member of Parliament for Hohoe Constituency, Social Security and National Insurance Trust and Hohoe based corporate organizations including Green Shield Agro-Chemicals, Cedar Medical Health Center, Latest Foam, Wofa Kuma Enterprise, Shine Infinite, Feminine Star Africa, Nox Restaurant, Top Ice Drinking Water, Home Builders Enterprise and Atsu Rubber store and endorsed by Ghana Education Service Hohoe.