News Release
January 12, 2006
Semantics Competition On Wednesday, Jan. 18 Kicks Off Spelling Bee Season
The district's semantics competition season kicks off on Wednesday, Jan. 18 with the first group of oral spelling bees from 9:15 to 11 a.m. at Grant Ranch K-8 School and Hamilton, Lake, Morey and Place middle schools. Each spelling bee includes 30 students.
The DPS semantics program is open to students not older than eighth grade. It is designed to help students improve their spelling, vocabulary, language, and reading skills. The competition portion of the program is a progression of two cluster oral spelling bees, a city written spelling test and a city oral spelling bee. The result is the determination of the top 25 spellers from Denver Public Schools, who then participate in the Rocky Mountain News 2006 Colorado Spelling Bee, vying for the chance to represent the state of Colorado in the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee.
- Grant Ranch K-8 School is located at 5400 S. Jay Circle; 720-424-6880.
- Hamilton Middle School is located at 8600 E. Dartmouth Ave.; 720-423-9500.
- Lake Middle School is located at 1820 Lowell Blvd.; 720-24-0260.
- Morey Middle School is located at 840 E. 14th Ave.; 720-424-0700.
- Place Middle School is located at 7125 Cherry Creek Drive North; 720-424-0960.
For more information, contact Becky Muggli in the Gifted and Talented Office, 720-423-8274.
For more information, contact the DPS Communications Office at 720-423-3414.