1. Introduction
Thank you for entering Emile’s Free National Spelling Competition!
We really hope that it will help engage your students and lead to some big improvements in spelling (Manchester Uni saw a 24% increase in 3 months over 4,000 schools).
2. Logging on to Emile:
Teachers can log on to Emile here, using their email address and an initial password of “password” (please change this password once you have logged in by clicking on your name in the top right corner).
3. Setting Up a Class:
Classes can be set up in two ways:
Both ways are GDPR compliant.
Once you have logged into Emile, you will reach our Maths & English Dashboard:
Select “Student Usernames” and then “Create New Class” (see below).
You then have a choice, you can upload your students with a csv file (excel type file) or send your class or school list securely to Emile:
If you want to upload your students using a csv file, please make sure the columns are: name, username, password, and UPN (optional). There is no need for a header row.
Please note that usernames have to be unique in the school and that passwords do NOT need to be unique and have to be three characters or more.
Alternately, you can send us your class list to classlist@emile-education.com (or indeed school list), we will create all your students’ log in details typically within 3 working hours.
If you now log into Emile, you will reach our Maths & English Dashboard:
Select “Student Usernames”.
You should then see all your school classes and be able to see students’ usernames and passwords.
Share Student Log in Details.
We recommend printing off the students’ usernames and passwords:
Introduction
Hopefully, the answer to “How Students Take Part in the National Spelling Competition” is with a smile 
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This Guide assumes you have usernames and passwords for your students already. If not, please see above .
Logging on to Emile:
Students can log on to Emile using either:
They should choose their school either by name or by post code (especially helpful for schools such as St James’ or St Mary’s) from the dropdown box, then enter their username and password!
Please make sure you are using version 6.2 or higher – available since April 2023
(You can see the version number in the bottom left corner of the log in screen)
The National Spelling Competition
There are only certain game types that allow students to score points for the competition and these are labelled with a crown icon. These games cover the content of the Appendix to the National Curriculum.
Students can complete up to 6 rounds. Each round has words from the corresponding year group. So round 1 words are from year 1, round 2 words are from year 2,…
To reach the subsequent round, a student needs to get more than 8 words correct out of the 10.
So year 1 students should be okay on round 1, where year 6 students should be getting to round 6.
Each correct answer on any round contributes to the student’s and school’s position in the competition.
Your students have access to a number of other games (including spelling games) but these of course do not contribute points.
Alternately, students can click on Events and see how they are doing, how the school is doing and the top 5 performers. On that screen, there is a “Play” button.
How Scores are Determined.
When playing an appropriate game, every correct answer means a point for that student. Wrong answers have no impact. We are rewarding effort to encourage students to do the game again and again.
Students are ranked in order of points. Each student is then given a score based on their rank. This is so that 3 or 4 students that score masses of point don’t overwhelm the contribution of other students.
Once a school has five students that have played the game, then they will appear on the school league.
Finally, the average score of the students determines the school’s position.