District hosted four spelling competitions this past week
Middle-school winners were Connor Mallon (from left), an eighth-grader from Pope John Paul II; Madison Moore, a South Brandywine eighth-grader; and Jeffrey Martin, a South Brandywine sixth-grader.
The Coatesville Area School District has been abuzz with bees this past week – the spelling variety. Four separate competitions – involving words like baccalaureate, coalescence and grandiloquence – were held with students from CASD’s elementary and middle schools as well as students from Pope John Paul II.
On Monday, Rainbow Elementary School hosted the elementary bee. Friendship Elementary tied for first-place overall with PJPII and will be taking home the trophy for the remainder of the school year. PJPII will take possession of it at the start of the next school year and hold it until the 2014 CASD Spelling Bee.
In the third, fourth, and fifth-grade competitions, Coatesville finished in first and second places while PJPII took third. Third-grade winners were Jacob Wioskowski, first place from Rainbow Elementary; Braydon Shaffer, second place from East Fallowfield; and Grace Curry, third place from Pope John Paul II. Fourth-grade honors went to Lauren Hatt, first place, Caln; Kate Miller, second place, Friendship; and Eddie Ross, third place, Pope John Paul II. Fifth-place finishers were Curry Ellzy, first, King’s Highway; Amber Cura, second, Friendship; and Madisyn Miller, third, Pope John Paul II.
Fifth-grade winners Madisyn Miller (bottom, from left), Curry Ellzy and Amber Cura pose with their principals: Eileen Hartshaw, Pope John Paul II; Steve Lefever, King’s Highway, and Brad Bentman, Friendship.
South Brandywine Middle School hosted the middle-school bee on Friday with PJPII earning first-place overall. Organizers said the middle-school competitions, which had previously been grade-specific, were combined into one contest to mirror the Chester County Spelling Bee, which will be held on Feb. 8. So among the combined sixth- seventh- and eighth-graders, PJPII placed first and Coatesville placed second and third. The winners were Connor Mallon, an eighth-grader from Pope John Paul II in first place; Madison Moore, a South Brandywine eighth-grader in second place; and Jeffrey Martin, a sixth-grader from South Brandywine in third.
Winners from fifth through eighth grade will advance to the county competition, said Jonette Marcus, a Coatesville school district spokeswoman.
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