Click here to log in to your account, click on the Spelling Bee tab and follow the instructions. Alternatively, team details can be faxed on school letterhead to 020 8977 7974. If any of your pupils have special needs such as wheelchair accessibility, please call us in early February on 020 8973 0046.
Consent for attendance at the Spelling Bee events
Each child in your team needs parental or guardian consent for attendance at the Spelling Bee events, together with permission for his or her image and details to be used for publicity purposes. For your convenience, we have created a form that you may like to use.
Click here to download the parental consent form.
As organisers, we need to hold copies of the publicity and attendance forms for each pupil in your team. Please send copies of all forms to us by Friday, February 20, 2009 to the following address Times Spelling Bee Publicity Approval, c/o The Rapport Group, Epic House, 128 Fulwell Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 0RQ. Please bring a copy of the form for each pupil in your team with you to the event.
The live spelling heats will be exciting and entertaining events. Families and friends of participating pupils are welcome to come and watch but please bear in mind that we have to restrict each school to ten guests including team members.
Please click here to view the latest Calendar of Events.
One thousand schools took part in The Times’s second ever Spelling Bee championship, competing in 106 local heats and 10 semi-finals across the country. The Times Spelling Bee received entries from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and the Channel Islands. The top 10 school teams made it through to the Grand Final, held at the Institute of Education, London, on June 24, where they went head-to-head for the winning title.
All of the Grand Final competitors are congratulated on their fantastic achievement in representing their school at The Times's second successful Spelling Bee final.
However, there could only be one winner and The Times would like to congratulate Newport Girls’ High School from Shropshire who have been crowned The Times Spelling Bee Champions 2010. Culcheth High School from Cheshire followed closely in second place and The Royal Latin School from Buckingham were placed third.
Find out more about the Grand Final here