Ingredient. Significance. Restaurant. Refrigerator. Bought.
Those words would challenge some adult spellers but to Beau Mounter they're child's play.
Getting them right — plus a host of other tricky words — earned the 7-year-old at Kerikeri Primary School the highest score of any Year 3 pupil in New Zealand in the annual ICAS Spelling Bee assessment.
Beau's achievement was recognised late last month with a medal that would normally be presented in person by the competition's Australia-based organisers, but due to the Covid pandemic a virtual ceremony will be held early in the new year instead.
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