By going out for dinner at a Chinese restaurant - perhaps for some alphabet soup, among other things.
At least, that was what 10-year-old Chloe Court said she was going to do after she and her Andersons Bay School team-mates Aidan Blakie and Alex Smith won the Otago year 5 and 6 category of the Otago Daily Times Extra! spelling quiz at Tahuna Intermediate last night.
The trio led for most of the competition, but they had to make every answer count because second-placed Fairfield School pupils Ega Mackenzie, Oliver Turnbull and Harry Bezett, and third-placed George Street Normal School pupils Ashton Fraser, Asma Pourmeghdad and Zakari Rizwan were hard on their heels.Chloe said the secret to their success was to avoid putting too much pressure on themselves, to work as a team and have fun.
The year 7 and 8 competition was won by Tahuna Intermediate pupils Ryan Cooper, Oliver Garden and Amelia Gray.
"It could do. If it does, we're going to make the most of it," Ryan said.
The team was among 42 in the year 7 and 8 competition.
Runners-up were Poppy Henderson, Aliya Drake and Elloise Cameron from Columba College.
Placing third-equal were Dunedin North Intermediate pupils Felix Telfer, Emily Scott and Ruby Macdonald, and the team of Harry Easton, Ella Cone and Thomas Brockway of Balmacewen Intermediate.
Harry Easton, Ella Cone and Thomas Brockway of Balmacewen Intermediate.
