Press release from Fair Haven School District
Addie Cope, a fifth-grader at Knollwood School, is the winner of the school’s second annual Spelling Bee, held on February 2 — a competition that the ten year old student won by correctly spelling the word “jocularity.”
The daughter of Fair Haven residents Carolyn and Jonathan Cope will now participate in the 31st annual Asbury Park Press/Home News Tribune Spelldown, to be held at Monmouth University in West Long Branch on March 16-17. Spelldown will feature spelling champions aged eight through fourteen from Middlesex, Monmouth, and Ocean counties. The winner will move on to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.
“We are so proud of Addie and all of the students who participated in the grade level spelling bees at Knollwood,” said Knollwood School Principal Kevin Davis. “We wish Addie the best of luck at the Spelldown, and we hope to see her at the National Spelling Bee.”
Preliminary spelling bees were held in all Knollwood grades – fourth through eighth – to determine grade-level participants prior to the school-wide event. Competing along with Addie in the Knollwood School Spelling Bee were fourth grader Annie Kersten, sixth grader Abby Tuorto, seventh grader Aaron Bernstein, and eighth grader Bridgette Simpson.
