Media_camera Joanne Lee (front left) won the 2022 Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee in the Years 3-4 group with a score of 29/30. The Grade 4 student from Bull Creek Primary School said she loved competing in the Spelling Bee for the first time, despite some nerves. Her only stumble came with “vespers” (a service of evening prayer), a word she’d not heard before. I am really proud of myself,” he said.įellow Western Australian Joanne Lee, 10, finished on top of the Years 3-4 group, scoring 29/30 in 1min19s. “I thought that since I’d had some experience I might be able to do better but I didn’t expect to win. Ozi, who also loves sport and plays guitar and piano, said he was confident he’d do well after making the State/Territory Finals in last year’s competition. My mum would read with me for long hours in the study and she’d be giving me spelling words to practise, I wasn’t even at school yet,” he said. Ozi, 11, who is in Grade 5 at Providence Christian College, said his lifelong love of spelling and reading prepared him for the Spelling Bee. Media_camera Perth student and avid reader Ozi Egesi, 11, smashed out 30 correct words out of 30 to take out the national final in the Years 5-6 age group. Perth student Ozi Egesi scored a perfect 30/30 in 1min32s in the Years 5-6 group, despite tricky words like baize (a green woollen material resembling felt) and adenoids (lymph nodes in the back of the throat behind the nose). I read almost every day for an hour at least and that helps with my vocabulary.” “But they were educated guesses because I read a lot. “I guessed one or two of the words and didn’t expect to get them correct,” Zachary, 13, admitted. The Year 7 student from Haileybury College in Victoria said he was pleasantly surprised by his victory after having to deal with a couple of curveballs* in the National Final. For the record, astrakhan is the black or grey curly fur from the skins of lambs and psephology is the study of how people vote in elections. Zachary Cheng took the honours in the Years 7-8 group, ticking off words including astrakhan and psephology to score 28/30 in a speedy 1min39s.
The national champions of the 2022 Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee have been crowned after smashing out words many adults would struggle to know the meaning of, let alone spell. They came, they spelled, they conquered*.
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