Tolbert Elementary School held it's annual school spelling bee on Thursday, January 21, 2010. Dozens of family and friends gathered in the lunchroom to watch nineteen of the fourth and fifth grade classroom winners battle it out for the school level championship. The competition was fierce and spellers completed several rounds before the first student was eliminated.
In the end, after 1 1/2 hours of competition, the winning 8th grade level word was spelled by Heaven Campbell, fifth grade. Heaven will complete in the system level spelling bee on February 5, 2010 at the Harris Arts Center. John Flores, fifth grade TES School Spelling Bee runner-up will attend as an alternate.
Tolbert Elementary is pround of all the participants of the 2010 School Spelling Bee. Thank you and they are as follows:
Ashlyn Brandon, 4th, Ariel Brown, 4th, Heaven Campell, winner, Garrett Dodd 5th, Alyssa Evans, 4th, Rainey Fitch, 4th, Johon Flores, runner up, Leslies Gutierrez, 4th, Kelsey Hall 5th, Lason Hefner 5th, Tyler McClure 4th, Kallie Millard 4th, David Parker 4th, Dylan Ramsey 4th, Gerson Rios 5th, Logan Swaim 4th, Aaron Waters 5th, Jared Williams 5th.