Indian-Origin Girl Among Australia’s Three Best Spellers of 2021

The Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee is a national spelling competition for school children from Years 3 to 8 that aims to promote and encourage students’ oral and written literacy and spelling skills.

The 2021 national winners are:

  • Arielle Wong from Donvale Christian College, VIC (Year 3/4 category)
  • Theekshitha Karthik from Haileybury College, VIC (Year 5/6 category)
  • Evan Luc-Tran from The McDonald College, NSW (Year 7/8 category)

All participants had 15 minutes to spell 30 words, with the winners determined by the accuracy and speed of submitting their answers online.

The finalists had to tackle words like connoisseur, and meteorological.

Almost 21,000 students from 490 schools across the country participated in this year’s Spelling Bee.

The Prime Minister’s National Spelling Bee will be hosted by News Corp’s Kids News on the kidsnews.com.au website.

The free competition will be held digitally, with no physical competition elements and will run in Term 3, 2022, and registrations are planned to open on Monday, 25 July 2022.

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