{"id":61027,"date":"2018-03-01T11:23:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T11:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/?p=61027"},"modified":"2018-03-01T11:23:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T11:23:52","slug":"good-hope-country-day-6th-grader-wins-st-croix-spelling-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.viconsortium.com\/?p=61027","title":{"rendered":"Good Hope Country Day 6th Grader Wins St. Croix Spelling Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">ST. CROIX &#8212; The Virgin Islands Department of Education, St. Croix District hosted its 45th annual Intermediate Spelling Bee on Tuesday, February 27 at the Juanita Gardine Elementary School, the department announced Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">Good Hope Country Day 6th grader Hannah Neil earned the title of 2018 District champion with the correct spelling of the word \u201cbrigands,\u201d following 14 rounds of competition.\u00a0 Lew Muckle Elementary School 6th grader Widad Dawod and Juanita Gardine 6th grader Jah\u2019Quane Graham took 2nd and third places in the Bee. Widad made it to the round 13, but came up short of the title by misspelling the word \u201cincarcerated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">District Director of Curriculum &amp; Instruction Maria Encarnacion served as the Mistress of Ceremony acknowledging 45 years of the District Spelling Bee.\u00a0 Welcoming remarks by Juanita Gardine\u2019s principal Barbara McGregor followed, where she specifically recognized parents and coaches of the competitors for their selfless and hard work in their student\u2019s life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">Insular Superintendent Colleen Mae Williams welcomed attendees to the annual Spelling Bee with a few words of encouragement. \u201cToday is the day that our 14 spellers have been waiting for, it\u2019s the battles of the words!\u201d said Williams. \u201cWe\u2019re waiting to see which one of you has that final word and that last letter, and everyone starts to cheer and say yes, we have a District Spelling Bee champ! Good luck and remember to have fun. We\u2019re going to bring back the title of territorial Spelling Bee champion to the island of St. Croix!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">Ms. Encarnacion then introduced the Spelling Bee officials. The reading of the rules by Chief Judge Mrs. Jeremiah- Ambrose followed this. Spelling Bee participants then introduced themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">Fourteen spellers representing both public, private and parochial schools began the battle for the District Title following a practice round. Claude O. Markoe\u2019s 3rd grader A\u2019nyra Richards was the youngest amongst the 14 competitors. The competition went by swiftly rounding up to approximately an hour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">Participants received a trophy, a backpack full of school supplies and three bags filled with goodies from the District. The top six spellers will also receive an Amazon Fire Tablet, a $35 Amazon Credit Card and additional resources compliments of the United Way of the Virgin Islands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">Deputy Superintendent Faith Dane George-Boone gave the District Spelling Bee closing remarks, assuring participants that they were all winners. \u201cThey\u2019re all champions at their schools, they\u2019re champions for our district,\u201d said George.<\/span><span class=\"\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">The Territorial Spelling be will be held on March 27, 2018 in St. Thomas and will feature the best spellers of the St. Croix and St. Thomas &#8211; St. John Districts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">The top six finalists who will represent the St. Croix District in the Territorial Spelling Bee are<\/span><b class=\"\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">Hanna Neil<\/span><span class=\"\">\u00a0of Good Hope Country Day; Widad Dawod of Lew Muckle Elementary; Jah\u2019Quane Graham of Juanita Gardine Elementary; Aliyah Lindo of Church of God Academy; Gabriella Magras of Ricardo Richards Elementary; and Na\u2019Kia Armstrong of Arthur A. Richards Junior High<i>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. CROIX &#8212; The Virgin Islands Department of Education, St. Croix District hosted its 45th annual Intermediate Spelling Bee on Tuesday, February 27 at the Juanita Gardine Elementary School, the department announced Wednesday. Good Hope Country Day 6th grader Hannah Neil earned the title of 2018 District champion with the correct spelling of the word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1078,191,147],"tags":[7952,7951],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Good Hope Country Day 6th Grader Wins St. Croix Spelling Bee - V.I. 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