Can you spell the winning word? 👀
Thirty-four primary school students made it past around 200,000 competitors across 1,070 public schools in New South Wales to reach the Premier’s Spelling Bee finals in Sydney.
The students are as diverse as the schools they come from. Twenty-three speak a language other than English at home, and 18 have travelled from outside Sydney.
After multiple ‘tense’ rounds of increasingly difficult spellings, 12-year-old Afeef Ahmed was declared the winner.
Video production by Clodagh Griffin with reporting by Caitlin Cassidy.
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