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UEM Sunrise Organises Spelling Competition for Its PINTAR Schools
NUSAJAYA, Thursday, 31st October 2013: UEM Sunrise Berhad (“UEM Sunrise”) formerly known as UEM Land Holdings Berhad, the master developer of Nusajaya, one of the five key nodes of Iskandar Malaysia, successfully organised Spelling Competition for its PINTAR primary pupils at Theatrette Hall, Bangunan Dato’ Jaafar Muhammad, Kota Iskandar today.
The third year programme, organised in collaboration with Johor Bahru District Education Department (“PPDJB”) received 90 participations from nine UEM Sunrise’s PINTAR primary schools around Gelang Patah. Targeted for the Year Five and Year Six students, the competition consists of three challenges – writing test, verbal spelling test and introductory challenge this year that is ‘Spelling Bee’.
The first challenge, writing test, requires all 90 registered contestants to sit for written spelling test, based from words given by the judges from PPDJB. The top 20 contestants will be selected to proceed to the second challenge that is, verbal spelling test. In the verbal spelling challenge, contestants were given the opportunity to select any numbers from 1 to 50 at random on the projected screen in order to spell the words.
The third and final challenge is the Spelling Bee where only 10 finalists will be selected to qualify for this round. The Spelling Bee was known as a traditional competition in which contestants spell an English word aloud alphabet by alphabet and will usually be eliminated for misspelling a word. In this competition, one mark will be given to each correctly spelled word hence, contestants that spelled longer word will contribute to more marks while contestants that misspelled a word will not be given any mark but is still in the qualifying round. The programme ended with top three best spellers with top marks and 17 consolation winners.
The champion for this Spelling Competition will walk away with a cash prize of RM500, a gold medal and a certificate of participation. The first and second runners up will receive RM350 and RM200 cash prizes and certificates of participation respectively. Meanwhile 17 consolation winners will receive RM50 cash prizes and a certificate of participation each.
“The spelling competition is part of UEM Sunrise on-going quests to develop and engender an English-proficient community in all UEM Sunrise’s PINTAR schools. The programme targeted at primary school students aimed at helping students to improve their spelling skills and master their spelling foundation. Additionally, ‘Spelling Bee’ are a great way to keep students engaged in learning English also teaching the students that learning can be fun,” said Encik Mohd Nadzari Haji Bachek, Senior General Manager, Nusajaya UEM Sunrise Berhad.
The ceremony was graced by the presence of Tuan Haji Jemale bin Paiman, representative from Johor State Education Department, who presented the prizes to all winners. The ceremony was also attended by representatives from Johor Bahru District Education Department and respective teachers of UEM Sunrise’s PINTAR schools.