Prime Minister Anthony Albanese worked extra hard to get this year’s spelling bee to start. Children ages 3-8 can all let their teachers sign them up for this spelling bee. They first have a school spelling bee in their own school. 30 random spelling words are given to them and the children then type the words in 25 seconds. The children with the most correct words typed on time are chosen to enter the final round of the spelling bee.
Joanne Lee from age group 3-4, Ozi Egesi (years 5-6), and Zachary Cheng who is 7-8 years old, all entered the final round of the spelling bee. The kids were excited to be in the spelling bee. “It was a wonderful trip to Canberra, meeting the Prime Minister at Parliament House,” Zachary Cheng said. “The highlight was meeting the Prime Minister, Mr Albanese in person (and) testing his spelling skills. I still remember asking him to spell ‘magnanimous’ and Mr Albanese spelled it incorrectly.”
Joanne said that she was really nervous about meeting the Prime Minister because he’s a very important political figure in Australia. “But once we actually got around to seeing him and talking to him, I was pleasantly surprised,” she said. “He was very friendly and very easy to talk to – and it was especially funny when we had to ask him to spell a word for us.”
For Ozi, he took the prize for stumping the PM on the day. “This is a German word. It means state of consciousness. Bewusstseinslag,” Ozi said.
Mr. Albanese was so happy to see the kids enjoy learning. He said that he liked letting the kids play around with words during the spelling bee.
Joanne Lee from age group 3-4, Ozi Egesi (years 5-6), and Zachary Cheng who is 7-8 years old, all entered the final round of the spelling bee. The kids were excited to be in the spelling bee. “It was a wonderful trip to Canberra, meeting the Prime Minister at Parliament House,” Zachary Cheng said. “The highlight was meeting the Prime Minister, Mr Albanese in person (and) testing his spelling skills. I still remember asking him to spell ‘magnanimous’ and Mr Albanese spelled it incorrectly.”
Joanne said that she was really nervous about meeting the Prime Minister because he’s a very important political figure in Australia. “But once we actually got around to seeing him and talking to him, I was pleasantly surprised,” she said. “He was very friendly and very easy to talk to – and it was especially funny when we had to ask him to spell a word for us.”
For Ozi, he took the prize for stumping the PM on the day. “This is a German word. It means state of consciousness. Bewusstseinslag,” Ozi said.
Mr. Albanese was so happy to see the kids enjoy learning. He said that he liked letting the kids play around with words during the spelling bee.