Jess Does Herself Proud at Spelling Bee

Another day, another school event.

Today, I took Jessica to Mt Brown Public School to take part in the Regional Final of the State Spelling Bee. A few weeks ago Jess had been chosen to be Albion Park Public School's representative in the Year 4 group, and today was the day.

She, along with all of the participants, did amazingly well. The pressure and stress on all of the kids was tremendous, and after the first round, the words  became extremely difficult. It was a little bit hit and miss as to the difficulty of the word you received, and some problems occurred in the the running of the show.

However, Jess made the fourth round, when there were only 15 of the 50 starters remaining, and it was a shame when she didn't quite get through with the spelling of "immunology". However, only six kids remained after this round, so she had done amazingly well, and with little apparent problems. To say I was proud of her would be an understatement. She was just terrific. And it was great that both Helen and I, and three of her four grandparents could be there to see it.