PISQ principal, teachers and winning students after the Spelling Bee Competition 2019.
Pakistan International School-Qatar (PISQ) organised Spelling Bee Competition 2019 for senior boys and girls wings on May 29, 2019. Students from grade 5 to 8 from both the wings participated in the contest, displaying marvellous performance.
The competition was organised under the guidance of Principal of PISQ, Nargis Raza Otho, to sharpen the mental faculties of students, enabling them to keep pace with the ever-changing contemporary systems of education.
After the formal commencement of programme with the recitation of the Holy Quran, the participants from Grade 5 and 6 occupied the stage in the first segment. Demonstrating remarkable performance, the contestants from each team competed against each other.
First segment comprised three rounds, giving each student four words to spell by the end of which ‘Win the Bee Round’ was played to break the tie among students who had successfully spelled all the words.
From grade 5, two students, Eman Ejaz and Khalilullah, bagged first position; second position was also shared by two students, Aruba Asif and Nawal Muhammad, and Abubaker Qureshi secured third position whereas from Grade 6, Mansoor Farhan and Eshal Ali clinched first position; Laiba Hina and Husna Khan shared second position and Anas Faisal stood third.
In the second and last segment, the participants from grade 7 and 8 were called on stage to showcase their abilities. Doing their best, all the contestants tried to win the contest and bag any of the 1st three positions.
At the conclusion of the segment, after a neck-to-neck competition, from grade 7, two students, Mehmooda Shah and Saif Raza, shared first position; Maheen Saghir got second and Shaan Ahmad obtained 3rd position.
Areeba Khalid, Haleema Azhar and Hannan Tahir from grade 8 bagged first, second and third positions respectively.
At the end of the event, certificates were awarded to the winners to encourage them for their future endeavours.
The excellent manifestation of students’ preparation highlighted the hard work and efforts of the teachers who had groomed and polished them for the contest.
