Talk about a head start!
Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 10:50 pm
If anyone should be used to the daily challenges of spelling, it is Agnieszka Kolaczynska, from Llidiartywaen.
She says her name and that of Welsh villages like her own in Powys helped her in a global children's contest.
The nine-year-old beat more than 1.5m other youngsters in the World Education Games (Weg) spelling championships.
Home-schooled Agnieszka, who has Polish roots, had not sat a spelling test before, yet finished first in Wales, seventh in the UK and 31st worldwide.
"If you can spell my name, you can spell just about anything," said Agnieszka.
"After learning to spell Polish names and Welsh places, English is a doddle.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-17923914
