Bishan Challenge pictures

Jonathan with last-minute revision

Just outside the venue

Team 1 - A little too dark!

Team 5 all bright and cheery

Team 3 getting all so serious

Team 2 - All smiles :)

Game 1 under way

Taking a breather in between games. Nice cap!

Lunch on the staircase

Who's that in black in the back?

Mr Suhaimi taking down Gauis' score

Mrs Teo and Mr Suhaimi

Team 1 - Eventual winners of the tournament! Future Scrabble Masters perhaps? :)

Team 2

Team 3

Team 4 - Eventual 3rd in the Bowl category!

Personally, I would put TARTANES using the A on the board for a 4-timer ;)

John has sons? ;P

Awaiting results

Team 4 clinching 3rd place in the Bowl category. Hooray!

Team 1 clinching 1st place in the Cup category. Hooray hooray!

Checking out their trophies and prizes

Tired after a whole day of scrabble

But Grace and Kimberley still have plenty of energy to smile for the camera

Grand Finals here we come!

Grand Finals Details

6^th Inter School National Scrabble Championship 2007

Grand Finals - Primary School

Date: June 30, 2007 (Saturday)

Venue: National University Of Singapore (NUS) – Multi Purpose Hall (27 Prince George’s Park Singapore 118425)

Chief Tournament Director : Mr. Aleric Er (Clementi Woods Secondary School)

PROGRAMME SCHEDULE

8.00 am – 8.30 am Registration

8.30 am – 9.00 am Briefing

9.00 am – 10.00 am Game 1

10.00 am – 10.30 am Submission of Result Slips/Luck Of Draw/Toilet Break

10.30 am – 11.30 am Game 2

11.30 am – 12.00 pm Submission of Result Slips/Luck Of Draw/Toilet Break

12.00 pm – 1.00 pm Game 3

1.00 pm – 2.00 pm Lunch – not provided

(Cafeteria located next level offers Muslim/Chinese Food)

2.00 pm – 3.00 pm Game 4

3.00 pm – 3.45 pm Tabulation of results

First prize winner to present essay

3.45 pm – 4.15 pm Prize Presentation Ceremony

4.15 pm End

All teachers are to remind Team Captains that the same players who have played for the team in the preliminary rounds will be the ones representing the same team in the Grand Finals. There shall be no replacement of any other player(s) should any of them not able to play on that day. Where the minimum of 3 players is represented per team, it is thus implied that there will be a walkover for the opposing team for the 2 absent players who had failed to turn up.

Bishan Scrabble Challenge 2007

Despite a few hiccups early morning, our 5 St Hilda's scrabble teams are raring to go. All 5 teams are out to bring honours for our school.

After 4 gruelling games (and many bingos!), the results are finally out.

St Hilda's Team 4 has achieved 3rd position in the Bowl Category (three cheers!).

And...

St Hilda's Team 1 has achieved 1st position in the Cup Category (double three cheers!), the top-most position in the whole tournament!

Of course, winning is not everything. More importantly, all of us certainly enjoyed ourselves just by meeting up with our friends, made new ones from other schools and to share our passion and love for Scrabble!

Snapshots of the whole tournament coming up! Stay tuned!

Bishan Scrabble Challenge Updates

Here's the finalised list of participants for this Saturday's competition:

Team 1
Grace Teo
John Tan
Darren Tan
Toh Jie Min
Marcus Chia

Team 2
Natasha Nabila Bte Muhd
Samantha Lau
Kimberley Yeo
Angela Wong
Lim Xin Yi

Team 3
Gaius Ong
Heng Jian Shun
Jonathan Tan
Dikaios Pang
Michelle Wang Shuting

Team 4
Letitia Chen
Yip Jun Han
Lim Shu Ning
Koh Tze Hou
Nicholas Quek

Team 5
Ian Teoh
Jonathan Loh
Ong Jian Chong
Sean Lam
Sandra Teo

Please be in School by 8.15am.

Bring along your water bottle and pencil box.

Lunch will be provided.

Tournament will end at about 6pm. We will be back in back in school at about 6.30pm.

Continue to study hard!

ISNSC 2007 Grand Finals

Congratulations to Team 2, Team 3 and Team 4 for making it to the Grand Finals! :)

Bishan Scrabble Challenge

There will be a scrabble tournament to be held during the June holidays.

Please look at the list of pupils selected.

Date: 2nd June 2007, Saturday

Time: 830am - 5pm

Venue: Bishan Community Club

Please meet at the concourse at 8.15am in school uniform.

Team 1

Grace Teo
John Tan
Darren Tan
Toh Jie Min
Marcus Chia

Team 2

Natasha Nabila Bte Muhd
Samantha Lau
Kimberley Yeo
Angela Wong
Lim Xin Yi

Team 3

Gaius Ong
Heng Jian Shun
Jonathan Tan (primary 6)
Dikaios Pang
Michelle Wang Shuting

Team 4

Sarah Lai
Letitia Chen
Lim Shu Ning
Koh Tze Hou
Nicholas Quek

Team 5

Nathaneal Clive Rajkumar
Ian Teoh
Ong Jian Chong
Sean Lam
Sandra Teo

Those who have not seen me for your consent forms are to see me as soon as possible.

ISC changes to new Dictionary

Here's an email I receive that I would like to share with you. This email means that ZA, KI, JA, FE and other new words are now officially accepted in ISC and practically everywhere around the world. :)

ISC has been updated with the new SOWPODS word list, based on Collins
Official Scrabble Tournament and Club Word List (2007). The word list is
100% compliant with the published word book. Please do not ask me for a
copy of the word list itself as I do not personally have it.

More information on the changeover can be found at
http://www.tilefish .co.uk/csw2007. php - a quick reference guide to the
new 2s and 3s can also be found here.

The Collins word book itself can be obtained *exclusively* from the
Tilefish website for a special offer price of 6 UKP until 30th June. We
also have related items such as the ABSP's Collins Initiation Kit and
our hugely popular Useful Words laminated sheet. See
http://www.tilefish .co.uk for all this and more!

If you require international postage options please email us before
placing an order and we will get back to you with a quote ASAP.

Let the fun begin!

Stewart Holden
Tilefish
(ISC: Tokoloshe)