International Scrabble Competition underway

In case you are not aware, the Causeway Scrabble Challenge is an international scrabble competition held every year in Johor Baru.

The world's best scrabblers come together and play game after game of scrabble over 5 days.

Visit their website here.

Better still, watch these top players play move-by-move here. Notice how these top players also get a bad run of tiles, but observe how they balance their racks consistently. Don't forget to take note of all the bingos they make!

Prize-Giving Pictures

Enjoy!

Two individual awards for Julina
Best player from St Hilda's and Best Female Player

NJSC Senior Div Plate Champions
Raj, Nicole, Natalia, Nicole and Isabelle

NJSC Junior Div Cup Champions
Cheryl, Stephanie, Clarine, Bethanie and Julina

NJSC Junior Div Plate Champions
Gabriel, Lucas, Jia Hao, Josiah and George

ISNSC Senior Div Bowl Champions
Janessa, Jaime and Sonia (Justin & Joshua not in pic)

ISNSC Senior Div Cup Category - Bronze
Raj, Nicole, Natalia, Nicole and Isabelle

ISNSC Junior Div Cup Champions
Cheryl, Stephanie, Clarine, Bethanie and Julina

Where's Stephanie? :)

ISNSC Junior Div Plate Category - 3rd

Gabriel, Lucas, Jia Hao, Josiah and George

Stay sharp in the hols okay? When school reopens, competitions are going to come fast and furious, especially the individual ones! :)

Thursday Prize-Giving Details

For ISNSC and NJSC medallists, Mrs Chong will be presenting your medals this Thursday.

After flag-raising, please proceed to the new Sports Hall and report to Mrs Alexyndria Lim. She will take you through the process there.

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EAGLES Award 2010

Congratulations to our EAGLES Award recipients Isabelle Lim and Nicole Sim! :)

Also, the following pupils were awarded the Outstanding Hildan Award for outstanding contribution to Scrabble Club this year!

1. Raj
2. Qian Ying
3. Natalia
4. George
5. Julina

Centre Star

Centre Star is an interesting website. It lets us play through some of the top games move-by-move. This way, we learn how the top Scrabble players think and make their move.

Check it out!

Online Coaching Clinic

Click here for an online scrabble coaching clinic to level yourself up! Very good tips and advice indeed!

Pictures from the final session of the year

Scrabble Club held its final session this year. Sad we know, but we will be back next year as usual!

Nevertheless, stay tuned for updates...

Meanwhile, enjoy the pictures and see if you can answer the 4 trivias below some of the pictures :)

A good start from the Noriman-Bethanie game
Lovely parallel plays! :)

Yong Jing deep in thought

Nathanael and Aaron battling it out

Easy bingo by ... er.. .who was it?

Trivia #1: Can you spot the bingo here? (hint: observe the board carefully)

Undivided attention

Nice play by Bethanie - ROOSE/HAZES
good use of S!

a focused Raj

Trivia #2: Can you find a place for a bingo?

Trivia #3: Bad rack no doubt. What vowel dumper would you play?

Trivia #4: Spot the invalid word.

Anagram time!

See you around! :)

Scrabble is ON!!!! (12th October)

See you this Tuesday! If your exams are this week or the next, it is not compulsory for you to come.

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Happy Children's Day!

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Wanna know more Interesting Words?

Visit the Association of British Scrabble Players website.

They have tons of interesting and highly useful words! :)

No Scrabble for the next two weeks!

We are very sorry for any confusion caused.

Update: there will be no Scrabble for the next two weeks (28th Sep and 5th October).

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Word of the day!

Cheryl played JEED for 60 pts!

That's as good as a bingo! :)




The power of J! :)

Scrabble is BACK!!!!!!!!!!

See everyone tomorrow!!!! :)

NJSC individual results

Special mention to the following scrabblers who won all 5 games!

1. Raj
2. Isabelle
3. Jiong Han
4. Cheryl
5. Clarine
6. Bethanie
7. Julina
8. Lucas Ong

The following pupils won 4 out of 5 games!

1. Qian Ying
2. Natalia
3. Sarthak
4. Yong Jing
5. Stephanie
6. Nathanael
7. Gabriel
8. Josiah
9. Jia Hao
10. George

National Junior Scrabble Ch'ships 2010

This year's National Junior Scrabble Ch'ships (NJSC) is an exciting affair, as there are individual trophies to be won for best performer.

SHPS sent in 7 teams. With over 65 teams competing in 5 gruelling games, our scrabblers have done the school proud!

Junior Division (P3 & P4)
Champions - Cup Category
Team 1 - Cheryl, Stephanie, Clarine, Bethanie and Julina

Champions - Plate Category
Team 3 - Gabriel, Josiah, George, Jia Hao and Lucas Ong

Senior Division (P5 & P6)
Champions - Plate Category
Team 1 - Raj, Isabelle, Nicole, Qian Ying and Natalia

In addition, Julina Seet did extremely well! She bagged two individual awards!

1. Best Player from St Hilda's Primary

2. Best Female Player of the Tournament

Congratulations to all! Enjoy the pictures! :)

Raj & Isabelle having a game on the way to the tournament

Senior Div Team 2
Yueyu, Sarthak, Jiong Han, Wensheng and Noriman

Junior Div Team 1
Clarine, Julina, Bethanie, Stephanie and Cheryl

Senior Div Team 1
Natalia, Qian Ying, Nicole, Isabelle and Raj

Senior Div Team 3
Janessa, Lydia, Joseph, Sonia and Jaime

Junior Div Team 2
Kelly, Nathaniel, Yong Jing, Samuel and Shastikk

Junior Div Team 3
Gabriel, George, Jia Hao, Josiah and Lucas Ong

Junior Div Team 4
Hui Yi, Lucas Tan, Aaron, Shawn and Daniel

Julina and Clarine: extremely focused in Game 1

No nonsense from Gabriel when the games are under way

Lunchtime: Shawn monkeying around

A very hungry Joseph

Aaron affording a smile in between bites

Yueyu caught on camera!

After lunch: Back to serious business!

Awaiting results

Julina receiving her second individual trophy
Best Female Player of the Tournament

Junior Div Plate Category champions!
Way to go, guys! :)

Senior Div Plate Category champions!
Well done, people! :)

Junior Div Cup Category champions!
So proud of you girls! ;)

Unable to contain their joy!

A quick pose after the trophy presentation

Literally smiling from ear to ear!

See you in Term 4! :)

Team Line-up for NJSC 2010

When: Saturday, 28th Aug

Reporting time: 7.05am (bus leaves at 7.15am sharp!) at the foyer

Attire: School uniform

What to bring: writing material

Have your breakfast before coming to school! :)

JUNIOR DIVISION (P3-P4)

Team No.	Player No.	Team Captains are automatically understood to be Player 1 in each of the teams registered, unless otherwise indicated by the schools	All P3/P4 pupils compete in the Junior DIV; whereas the P5/P6 compete in the Senior DIV
		Name of Player	Class
C1	1	Cheryl Kho	4/11
	2	Stephanie Low	4/11
	3	Clarine See	4/10
	4	Bethanie Lim	4/10
	5	Julina Seet	4/11
C2	1	DEJOY SHASTIKK KUMARAN	4/10
	2	Goh Yong Jing	4/6
	3	Samuel Yaw	4/8
	4	Kelly Tan	4/7
	5	Nathanael Chia	3/9
C3	1	Gabriel Lee	4/11
	2	Josiah Hoo	4/7
	3	Lee Jia Hao	4/6
	4	George Neo	4/6
	5	Lucas Ong	4/11
C4	1	Aaron Low	3/4
	2	Shawn Goh	4/11
	3	Chia Hui Yi	4/11
	4	Lucas Tan	3/8
	5	Daniel Choo	4/11

SENIOR DIVISION (P5-P6)

B1	1	GAUTHAMAN RAJ MAGESH	6/11
	2	Isabelle Lim	6/11
	3	Nicole Sim	6/10
	4	Soh Qian Ying	5/11
	5	Natalia Nadila	5/10
B2	1	Yeo Jiong Han	5/11
	2	Tan Wensheng	6/7
	3	Sarthak Consul	6/11
	4	Md Noriman	5/6
	5	Lee Yueyu	5/11
B3	1	Joseph Lim	5/11
	2	Sonia Saravanan	6/10
	3	Lydia Wong	6/10
	4	Janessa Low	6/7
	5	Jaime Tan	6/10