450 learners from schools across South Africa qualified for the final round of the 13th national Sanlam WOW Spelling Festival 2023, which will take place on 6 October at Stellenbosch University.
WOW supports multilingualism and offers the spelling festival in three languages. For the Afrikaans section 584 schools from eight provinces entered the competition; for English, 415 schools from seven provinces, and for isiXhosa, 121 schools from three provinces.
“The Sanlam WOW Spelling Festival is one of the Woordfees and WOW’s flagship projects, and the national finals are the cherry on the cake,” says Saartjie Botha, Director of the Toyota SU Woordfees and WOW project. “The spelling festival is an initiative that focuses on continuous learning and tests much more than just the learners’ knowledge of language and spelling rules. It expands their vocabulary, is an excellent exercise in concentration and gives learners the confidence to talk with ease in front of people they don’t know.”
Fiona van Kerwel, the WOW project manager, says the feedback she receives about the spelling festival is a prime motivator for her and her team. They travel throughout the country to ensure that the various rounds of the competition – from school level, through to the circle, district and provincial levels – run smoothly. “Throughout the country, educators, parents and education departments attest to the fact that the WOW Spelling Festival helps young learners to sharpen their language skills and build self-confidence. At the same time they have a lot of fun as they practice, spell and learn. As one learner put it: ‘The spelling festival gives me the words to describe, understand and work.’ ”
For more information about the WOW Project, click here.
EasyEquities and WOW join hands
EasyEquities is partnering with the WOW (Words Open Worlds) Project to contribute to WOW bursaries for first-generation students and to encourage young people to take charge of their financial future by starting to use the EasyEquities app.
WOW is an empowerment project of the Woordfees which celebrates their 20th birthday this year. WOW facilitates creative programmes focused on promoting language, literature and the arts in schools and communities to broaden learners and educators’ horizons. The project also provides prospective students with information about tertiary education, and WOW Bursaries from Stellenbosch University are awarded to talented candidates.
The WOW EasyEquities initiative invites the public to create a profile on the EasyEquities app by using a special QR code. For each profile that is created via the code, EasyEquities provides the new user with R50 for investment, while also donating an additional R50 to the WOW Bursary.
For more information, click here.
Support supporters of the arts
If you love the arts as much as we do, you might want to take a look at the sponsors of the Woordfees. You can buy shares (or portions of a share) for Toyota, Heineken Beverages, Standard Bank, Naspers, MultiChoice or EasyEquities (The Purple Group) via the EasyEquities app.
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