Competitors from more than 40 schools will descend on our Academy to take part in a major foreign languages competition.

We have been invited to host the regional final of the Foreign Language Spelling Bee on Wednesday for the fourth year in a row.

Year 7 students will be tested on their knowledge of French, German or Spanish and our Academy has entered a team of students into the Spanish section of the contest.

CBA Director of Modern Foreign Languages Karen Turney said: “This is the first time we have entered a Spanish team into the competition and we are very excited about that.

“Our students have been working very hard with our Spanish Assistant Claudia Tapia Villa to get ready for the contest in our Spelling Bee Club during Session 4.

“We’re delighted to have been asked to host this high profile event again.”

During the competition the students will be given one minute to spell out as many words in their chosen foreign language as they can.

The word will be read out to them in English then the student will have to spell the word in the foreign language, including any accents.

The competition will also involve our fellow Brooke Weston Trust schools, Kettering Science Academy and Brooke Weston Academy.

Both schools will have staff members acting as judges at the competition alongside our own Claudia Tapia Villa.

The competition is organised by Routes Into Languages East which is based at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridgeshire.

(Pictured are last year’s CBA Spelling Bee competitors with the tournament trophies)