2025 Elementary Spell Bowl

2025 Elementary Spell Bowl Results

Posted on March 26, 2025

It was a clean sweep for Northpoint at P-H-M’s at this year’s Elementary Spell Bowl–with the 5th grade team earning a perfect score! Click here to see the photo gallery below.

The annual event, held March 25th at Penn High School, is a competition between 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade student teams from all 11 elementary schools compete. The number of points between the placing teams are within just points of each other!  

Below is this year’s “leaderboard” listing all first, second, and third place team scores:

3rd Grade Winners:

Northpoint 3rd grade team, 1st place

  • 1st place- with 29 points, Northpoint, coached by Nichol Mondy
  • 2nd place tie- with 28 points, Prairie Vista, coached by Renee Johanson
  • 2nd place tie- with 28 points, Walt Disney, coached by Matt Serge
  • 3rd place- with 27 points, Mary Frank, coached by Andrea Christensen

4th Grade Winners:

Northpoint 4th grade team, 1st place

  • 1st place- with 29 points, Northpoint, coached by Jen Payne
  • 2nd place- with 25 points, Bittersweet, coached by Matt Bodnar
  • 3rd place- with 23 points, Prairie Vista, coached by Rachel Kline

5th Grade Winners:

Northpoint 5th grade team, 1st place

  • 1st place- Perfect Score of 30 points, Northpoint, coached by Kendra Suddarth
  • 2nd place- with 29 points, Prairie Vista, coached by Shelley Lebiedzinski
  • 3rd place- with 28 points, Bittersweet, coached by Michelle Leniski

The teams spend weeks preparing for Spell Bowl with their teacher coaches. They may study word lists, learn about derivations (e.g., Latin roots) and rules (e.g., capitalization, pluralization), and how to spell correctly under pressure.

The format of the Spell Bowl is more like a written test. The emcee reads a word and uses the word in a sentence, the students listen and then write it on paper within a 15-second time limit. The students’ written entries are reviewed by a panel of judges and then their score is posted in front of the audience. Each correct word spelling is worth one point.

The annual event is held in Penn High School’s Center for Performing Arts to not only accommodate all the student teams, but also the students’ “fans,” which are their family, friends and other staff from their home schools!

Mrs. Franca Peluso Mulhern, P-H-M’s High Ability Coordinator, manages the Spell Bowl and works to assure that it is a positive and enriching experience for students. Academic competition can give students confidence, increase their motivation to sharpen their skills and abilities, and expand their opportunities to receive recognition.

Congratulations to all the student teams and coaches; they put in a lot of time and hard work!

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