On Monday 5 February, twenty Year 7 students took part in the second stage of the Foreign Languages Spelling Bee. The students had been given 100 French or Spanish words to learn and had to spell words selected at random using the French or Spanish alphabet.The winner of the French competition was Edward Thomas and Mia Exton won the Spanish competition. The strongest runner up across both languages was Charlie Cole. All three qualify to compete against students from other schools in the regional competition in March.