Spelling Quiz 2015

A few weeks ago, children from all over Canterbury assembled at Chisnallwood Intermediate. All throughout the room, there were girls and boys madly scribbling down words like “delicatessen” and “doppelganger”, all ready for the Otago Daily Times Extra! Spelling Quiz.

In the annual quiz, you are in a team of three. There are 10 rounds, each on different things to do with spelling. Some of the categories are: Etymology, Dictionary Skills, Abbreviations and Guessing rounds. It’s always lots of fun to compete in, with spot prizes of pineapple lumps and quizzes for spectator, and it’s a bit of a laugh to see what words we got wrong!

Selwyn House entered several Years 7-8 teams, and they all did really well. It was really cool to see that we were probably one of the top girls only teams in the room!

Can you do better than our teams? Try the quiz below to see if you have what it takes to win the spelling quiz and comment below with your score!

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By Hattie and Lucy

Success at Spelling Quiz!

Outstanding Success 

@ Canterbury Extra! Spelling Quiz!

This week, Selwyn House was ably represented by 12 of our top Year 7 and 8 spellers at this annual spelling quiz. The girls were involved in 10 rounds of questions that tested everything from their knowledge of words and their country of origin, through dictionary skills, root words and endings, proofreading and mystery word rounds, to more traditional spelling testing of words taken from commonly misspelled lists.

It is our very great pleasure to announce that the Selwyn House team of Kathleen King, Harriet Compton-Moen and Lucy Jessep have been crowned champions in the Year 7 and 8 competition with a grand total of 97 out of 100 - beating out 81 other teams. Congratulations girls - this was a hard fought win and we are very proud of you.

Thank you to all the girls who were selected to represent Selwyn House - you performed remarkably, with all teams placed well inside the top half of the teams.