Audrey Paul is an awesome, audacious and award-winning speller in a statewide competition.
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The Year 3 Goulburn North Public student has won first place in the junior regional finals for the Premier’s Spelling Bee 2016.
About 50 students across NSW, including the Southern Tablelands and Highlands, participated in the regional competition. The regional finals took place between September 12 and 23.
Audrey won herself a Macquarie Dictionary and an online dictionary subscription for her whole school.
The super speller will now progress to the state final in November, at the ABC Centre in Sydney.
The competition was held at Burrawang Public School and district competitors included:
- Cathal Carragher and Ely Webb-Crothers (Tirranna Public)
- Mae O’Flynn and Frey Joseph (Wollondilly Public)
- Natalie Jones (Goulburn North Public)
- Tom Hayes (Bradfordville Public), and
- Abbie Dalgliesh and Madison Rebbeck (Goulburn West Public).
The Premier’s Spelling Bee is a competition of two divisions, junior (Years 3, 4) and senior (Year 5, 6), and divided further into several categories.
The Macquarie Dictionary is the sponsor and official source of all words used in competition.
Premier’s Spelling Bee support officer Kate Jackson said the annual competition was a worthwhile opportunity for students all across the state to demonstrate their love of spelling.
“It is a fun and competitive way for students to improve their literacy skills,” she said.
Organised in about 20 regional areas, Ms Jackson said spelling bees at small or regional schools were significant, “because the whole community gets involved and different schools can come together for the event.”
The Premier’s Spelling Bee began in 2004.